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153153 Of course, we now have a lot of digital instruments, so for modern music, we can be far more adventurous, and indeed composers like electronic music pioneer \link{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos|Wendy Carlos}\ref{wendy}
154 \sidenote{Wendy Carlos is a personal hero of mine! She's composed music you've certainly heard, including spectacular movie soundtracks for \em{A Clockwork Orange}, \em{The Shining}, and \em{Tron}, and she also pioneered a lot of early work in electronic music. Her 1968 album of Bach pieces played on a Moog—called \em{Switched-On Back}—was a major factor in bringing electronic instruments to a wider audience. Look up her music!}
154 \sidenote{Wendy Carlos is a personal hero of mine! She's composed music you've certainly heard, including spectacular movie soundtracks for \em{A Clockwork Orange}, \em{The Shining}, and \em{Tron}, and she also pioneered a lot of early work in electronic music. Her 1968 album of Bach pieces played on a Moog—called \em{Switched-On Bach}—was a major factor in bringing electronic instruments to a wider audience. Look up her music!}
155155 have taken full advantage of the current obviated need for physical instruments and experimented with wilder and stranger systems of tuning. But still: it's possible to build a nineteen-tone flute in a way that's it's not for a fifty-three-tone flute, which is why nineteen-tone scales are often a first exploration for budding microtonal musicians.
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157157 \h1{And Even More Scales}
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192192 Or here's a short prelude written for a 19-TET guitar by microtonal proponent \link{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Darreg|Ivor Darreg}:
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196196 This so far has been a \em{very} cursory introduction to microtonal music: there's a \em{lot} more there than I talked about in this post! It's a field with some lots of interesting corners and a fascinating history, but at the same time, it's also a field full of unexplored directions and corners just waiting for someone to uncover them. And, of course, plenty of fascinating music to listen to, as well!