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What is a microtone?

What is a microtone? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) Any interval smaller than a semitone
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A microtone is an interval smaller than a semitone.
The scene's mythic quality is rendered uncanny, even creepy, by the microtone dissonances and irregular rumbles of Stephen Scott's electronic score.
Each track is a deliberate layering of textures and elements, with every microtone sounding as fussed-over as the sculpted icing on an elaborate wedding cake.
It's a thrilling disconnect, a heady hybrid of the Welsh Valleys and those microtone specialists, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.
These contained monophonic lines in microtone tunings based upon speculations by the composers regarding Mozart's melodic writing.
Actually, at the time, I didn't even know the word microtone!

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