Very cool, although I wouldn’t call this “microtonal” music à la modernist composition: it’s really just using a different scale than the familiar Western pattern. Many traditional musics from around the world use a variety of interesting scales, but their steps are generally on the semitone–whole tone size scale; I wouldn’t call them “microtonal” unless they use very small intervals, which this Anatolian and Ottoman folk music doesn’t seem to. The guitar is microtonal, sure, because theoretically you could play very small intervals on it, but the guitarist isn’t doing that in the video.
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