Our longterm partners, The International Ekmelic Society have released the 4th Journal of the presentations from the 2021 edition of the ‘Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful’ Symposium, at which Donald gave his last presentation- on 19.5, with duo Contour. Patrick Ozzard-Low provided an article reflecting on this work, together with a Foreword by trumpeter, and long time collaborator of Donald, Stephen Altoft. It can be ordered from here.

Table of contents

-Agustín Castilla-Ávila: Prologue

-Stephen Altoft and Patrick Ozzard-Low: Personal reflections on Donald Bousted’s 19.5 for 19-division trumpet and malletKat

-Navid Bargrizan: The Lineage from Harry Partch to Manfred Stahnke

-Sam Cave: Resonance, Overtones, and Miniature Voice

-Rami Chahin: Microtonal: Music Classifications in Theory and Education

-Jim Dalton: A Software Instrument and Tool for Just Intonation in MaxMSP

-Caroline Delume: Flexibility of sound space in Francisco Luque’s music for plucked instruments

-Vytautas Germanavicius: Identification of Microtonal Interval Relations in Lithuanian Vocal and Instrumental Folk Music and their Application in Music Composition

-Franck Jedrzejewski: Petr Chernobrivets and the 20-Tone Universe

-Gerhard Klosch: The sliding Keyboard – The Construction of a New Pure Tonal Instrument

-Raphael Ophaus: Microtonality as a structure-forming principle in the work of Michael Quell

-Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar: Two pieces for solo guitar and one piece for 33 guitars utilizing microtonal scordatura

-Viktor Pushkar:The Family of 24-tone Unequal Temperaments

-Ulf-Diether Soyka: Notes on ekmelic Harmony: Partials, 3rd Messiaen Scale and Maqam Husseini

-Manfred Stahnke: “Just Intonation” – Possibilities in Playing and Hearing on String Instruments, especially Viola

-Andrew A. Watts: Tensio Novum: Microtonal Approaches to the Guitar in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough