Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media
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Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media is the name of a set of pieces in various microtonal equal temperaments composed and released in 1980 by American composer Easley Blackwood Jr.
Paraphrased from the CD liner notes: "In the late 1970's, Prof. Blackwood won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to investigate the harmonic and modal properties of microtonal tunings. The project culminated in Microtonal Etudes, composed as illustrations of the tonal possibilities of all the equal tunings from 13 to 24 notes to the octave."
Blackwood likened the task to writing a "sequel" to The Well-Tempered Clavier.
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