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Extended technique on a monophonic musical instrument
A multiphonic is an extended technique on a monophonic musical instrument in which several notes are produced at once. This includes wind, reed, and brass instruments, as well as the human voice. Multiphonic-like sounds on string instruments, both bowed and hammered, have also been called multiphonics, for lack of better terminology and scarcity of research. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MultiphonicA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Simulation of multiphonic vocalization: How many sound sources can the lungs support simultaneously?Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The techniques of oboe playing : a compendium with additional remarks on the whole oboe familyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Multiphonic tones in the woodwind instrumentsCited 18 times
- Go sideways: AltissimoA closely related topic
- Go sideways: OvertoneA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Multiphonic tones in the woodwind instruments
Correlation dimension of woodwind multiphonic tones
Sonic Mimesis and Listening Aesthetics －Tuvan Timbre-Centered Listening through Khöömei, a Drone-Based Multiphonic Vocal Technique－
Multiphonic modeling using impulse pattern formulation
Identification of the separate tones heard in a woodwind multiphonic sound as grouped subsets of its spectral components
Multiphonic vocalizations: A multifactor analysis of Tibetan monk chanting
EDITORIAL: THE ART OF THE STRING MULTIPHONIC
OF NEON LIGHT: MULTIPHONIC AGGREGATES ON THE ELECTRIC GUITAR
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
The techniques of oboe playing : a compendium with additional remarks on the whole oboe familyPeter Veale · 1994- 📕Sons multiphoniques aux instruments à ventMichèle Castellengo · 1982
- 📕Saxophone techniqueKen Dorn · 1975
The techniques of saxophone playingMarcus Weiss · 2010- 📕The clarinet of the twenty-first centuryEdwin Michael Richards · 1992
- 📕The bass clarinet of the twenty-first centuryEdwin Michael Richards · 1995
- 📕Spectral immersionsSarah Watts · 2015
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🔗 Related topics
- Altissimo Altissimo (Italian for very high) is the uppermost register on woodwind instruments. For clarinets, which overblow on odd harmonics, the altissimo notes…
- Overtone An overtone is any resonant frequency above the fundamental frequency of a sound (or of any oscillation). An overtone may or may not be a harmonic. In…
- Growling (wind instruments) Growling A growl on a baritone saxophone. Problems playing this file? See media help. Growling is a musical technique where the instrumentalist vocalizes…
- Harmonic A harmonic is a sinusoidal wave whose frequency is a positive integer multiple of the fundamental frequency in a periodic signal. The fundamental counts…
- Overblowing Overblowing is the manipulation of supplied air through a wind instrument that causes the sounded pitch to jump to a higher one without a fingering change…
- Sequenza VII Sequenza VII (composed 1969) is a composition for solo oboe by Luciano Berio, the seventh of his fourteen Sequenze. The sequenza calls for extended technique…
- Transposing instrument A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing…
- Wind instrument Charles Gounod's Petite Symphonie pour neuf instruments à vent (Little Symphony for Nine Wind Instruments) I. Adagio, allegro II: Andante cantabile III:…