Editing Microtonality (section)

===Western microtonal pioneers===
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* [[Henry Ward Poole]] (keyboard designs, 1825–1890)
* [[Eugène Ysaÿe]] (Belgium, U.S.A., 1858–1931, used quarter tones in several of the [[Six Sonatas for solo violin (Ysaÿe)|Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27]])
* [[Ferruccio Busoni]] (Italy, Germany, 1866–1924). Experimented with microtones, including third tones.
* [[Charles Ives]] (U.S.A., 1874–1954, quarter tones)
* [[Julián Carrillo]] (Mexico, 1875–1965) many different equal temperaments, look [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901232520/http://paginas.tol.itesm.mx/campus/L00280370/carrillo.html here] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20060613054645/http://paginas.tol.itesm.mx/campus/L00280370/julian.html here] (mostly Spanish but some English too)
* [[Béla Bartók]] (Hungary, 1881–1945, rare uses of quarter tones)
* [[George Enescu]] (Romania, France, 1881–1955) (in ''[[Œdipe (opera)|Œdipe]]'' to suggest the [[enharmonic genus]] of [[ancient Greek music]], and in the Third Violin Sonata, as inflections characteristic of Romanian folk music)
* [[Karol Szymanowski]] (Poland, 1882–1937, used quarter tones on the violin in ''[[Myths (Szymanowski)|Myths]]'' Op. 30, 1915)
* [[Percy Grainger]] (Australia, 1882–1961, particularly works for his "free music machine")
* [[Edgard Varèse]] (France, U.S.A., 1883–1965)
* [[Mordecai Sandberg]] (Romania, Austria, Palestine, USA, Canada, 1897–1973)
* [[Luigi Russolo]] (Italy, 1885–1947, used quarter tones and eighth tones on the ''Intonarumori'', noise instruments)
* [[Mildred Couper]] (U.S.A., 1887–1974, quarter tones)
* [[Alois Hába]] (Czechoslovakia, 1893–1973, quarter tones and other equal temperaments)
* [[Ivan Wyschnegradsky]] (U.S.S.R. (Russia), France, 1893–1979, quarter tones, twelfth tones and other equal temperaments)
* [[Harry Partch]] (U.S.A., 1901–1974, just intonation, including a system of [[Harry Partch's 43-tone scale|43 unequal tones to the octave]])
* [[Eivind Groven]] (Norway, 1901–1977, 53ET)
* [[Henk Badings]] (The Netherlands, 1907–1987, 31ET)
* [[Maurice Ohana]] (France, 1913–1992, third tones (18ET) and quarter tones (24ET) most particularly)
* [[Giacinto Scelsi]] (Italy, 1905–1988, intuitive linear tone deviations, quarter tones, eighth tones)
* [[Lou Harrison]] (U.S.A., 1917–2003, just intonation)
* [[Ivor Darreg]] (U.S.A., 1917–1994)
* [[Jean-Etienne Marie]] (France, 1919–1989, many different equal temperaments: 18ET, 24ET, 30ET, 36ET, 48ET, 96ET most particularly and polymicrotonality)
* {{ill|Franz Richter Herf|de||nl}} (Austria, 1920–1989, 72-equal temperament, "ekmelic" music)
* [[Iannis Xenakis]] (Greece, France, 1922–2001, quarter and third tones most particularly, occasionally eighth tones)
* [[György Ligeti]] (Hungary, 1923–2006, ''[[Ramifications (Ligeti)|Ramifications]]'' in quarter tone tuning, natural harmonics in his Horn Trio, later just intonation in his solo concertos)
* [[Luigi Nono (composer)|Luigi Nono]] (Italy, 1924–1990, quarter tones, eighth tones and 16th tones)
* [[Claude Ballif]] (France, 1924–2004, quarter tones)
* [[Tui St. George Tucker]] (1924–2004)
* [[Pierre Boulez]] (France, 1925–2016) (first example of [[serial music]] with quarter tones in his pieces ''[[Le Visage nuptial]]'' and ''[[Polyphonie X]]'', but soon after abandoning microtonal elements)
* [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] (Germany, 1928–2007, used and explored in his electronic works many microtonal concepts, non-octaving scales in ''Studie II'', just intonation in ''[[Gruppen (Stockhausen)|Gruppen]]'' and ''[[Stimmung]]'', occasional microtonal instrumental and vocal writing throughout ''[[Licht]]'')
* [[Ben Johnston (composer)|Ben Johnston]] (U.S.A., 1926–2019, extended just intonation)
* [[Joe Maneri]] (U.S.A., 1927–2009)
* [[Ezra Sims]] (U.S.A., 1928–2015, 72-tone equal temperament)
* [[Erv Wilson]] (1928–2016)
* [[Carlton Gamer]] (U.S.A, 1929–2023, 7-tone, 19-tone, 22-tone, 31-tone equal temperament)
* [[Alvin Lucier]] (U.S.A., b. 1931)
* [[Joel Mandelbaum]] (U.S.A., b. 1932)
* [[Krzysztof Penderecki]] (Poland, 1933–2020, quarter tones)
* [[Easley Blackwood, Jr.|Easley Blackwood]] (1933–2023)
* [[Alain Bancquart]] (France, b. 1934) (quarter tones and 16th tones)
* [[James Tenney]] (U.S.A., 1934–2006, just intonation, 72-tone equal temperament)
* [[Terry Riley]] (U.S.A., b. 1935, just intonation)
* [[La Monte Young]] (U.S.A., b. 1935, just intonation)
* [[John Corigliano]] (U.S.A., b. 1938, quarter tones)
* [[Douglas Leedy]] (b. 1938, just intonation, meantone)
* [[Wendy Carlos]] (U.S.A., b. 1939, non-octaving scales)
* [[Bruce Mather]] (Canada, b. 1939, different equal temperaments, following Wyschnegradsky)
* [[Brian Ferneyhough]] (Great Britain, b. 1943, quarter tones, 31ET in ''Unity Capsule'' for solo flute, 1976; quarter tones and eighth tones in ''La Chute d'Icare'', 1988)
* [[Jukka Tiensuu]] (Finland, b. 1948, quarter tones, non equal temperament tunings)
* [[Mathius Shadow-Sky]] (France, b. 1961, introduces acyclic nonoctave scales in 1980) <ref>the 1st shadow-sky tonal nonoctave scales are available for the sampler Kontakt: https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/userlib/legacy/userlib_kontakt/1355701044_File_12389_53.shadow-.zip</ref>
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