Meaning of utonality | Babel Free

Definitions

A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same numerator; a subharmonic series.

Examples

“Fixed tonal systems find utonalities disturbing. There are four utonalities prominent in the chromatic gamut.”

“A similar correlation is evident in the physical layout of the Kithara II, which consists of twelve banks of six strings, each bank tuned to a specific, although incomplete, otonality or utonality.”

“Contrasting otonality and utonality allows Johnston to mark distinctions between a melody and its inversion.”

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