# Tone-Deafness Test and Microtonal Music

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**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/tone-deafness-test-and-microtonal-music/51778/5 "2020-12-06T21:56:27Z")

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The comment section on one of those led me to [Ivan Wyschnegradsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Wyschnegradsky). Preludes IV and V are interesting. It sounds kind of like [Scriabin](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/alexander-scriabin-and-artificial-synesthesia/26946) with microtones.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WCvSkmIMRMY/hqdefault.jpg "Wyschnegradsky - Twenty-four Preludes in Quarter-tones; No. 5") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCvSkmIMRMY)

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VOat_xsGUOw/hqdefault.jpg "Ivan Wyschnegradsky: 24 Preludes in quarter-tone system (excerpts) (1934/1970)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOat_xsGUOw)

**Edit:** there’s a lot of Scriabin in this one:

[![](https://forum.artofmemory.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/7/478bfa130273d0c8fbdda151c98f98b486de9499.jpeg "Ivan Wyschnegradsky - 2 Preludes, Op. 2 (GSARCI VIDEO REVIVAL)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxnPXA1LHNI)

**Edit:** It looks like he wrote a _Manual of Quarter-Tone Harmony_ that is available [here](https://underwolf.com/wyschnegradsky).

> **[Notes from Underground: Ivan Wyschnegradsky's Manual of Quarter-Tone Harmony...](https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/notes-from-underground-ivan-wyschnegradskys-manual-of-quarter-tone-harmony/)**
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> Ivan Wyschnegradsky's 1932 Manual of Quarter-Tone Harmony rewrites the past for the future. But the 24-note equal-tempered octave is not an end, but a beginning.

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