Huygens-Fokker Foundation

The Huygens-Fokker Foundation (Dutch: Stichting Huygens-Fokker) is a "centre for microtonal music" founded on February 15, 1960, housed in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and named for Christiaan Huygens and Adriaan Fokker (inventor of 31 equal temperament and creator of the Fokker organ). The Foundation's library possesses a large archive of correspondence, scores, books, and other publications. The Foundation presents frequent concerts (originally in Teylers Museum) presenting contemporary, early, popular, and improvised microtonal music. They maintain contact with other organizations dedicated to microtonality including Tonalsoft, the Harry Partch Institute, the Logos Foundation, and individuals such as Kyle Gann. They published the journal Thirty-One and presented MicroFest Amsterdam 2011. They house the 31-tone Fokker organ with new MIDI-connections in the BAM Hall. The current director is Sander Germanus.

See also

• Carrillo-piano
• Euler-organ
• Euler–Fokker genus
• Acoustical Society of the Netherlands (Dutch: Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap)
• Dutch Microtonal Society (Dutch: Nederlands Genootschap voor Microtonaliteit)

External links

• Official link for Huygens-Fokker Foundation

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Microtonal music

Composers

• Richard Barrett
• Béla Bartók
• Easley Blackwood Jr.
• Heinz Bohlen
• Julián Carrillo
• Franklin Cox
• Mildred Couper
• John Eaton
• Brian Ferneyhough
• Michael Finnissy
• Bjørn Fongaard
• Alois Hába
• Christiaan Huygens
• Charles Ives
• Ben Johnston
• György Ligeti
• Stu Mackenzie
• Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
• Joel Mandelbaum
• Joe Maneri
• Roger Redgate
• John Schneider
• Sevish
• Ezra Sims
• Nicola Vicentino
• Claude Vivier
• Elaine Walker
• Ivan Wyschnegradsky
• La Monte Young

Inventors

• Glenn Branca
• Wendy Carlos
• Ivor Darreg
• Adriaan Fokker
• Lou Harrison
• Yuri Landman
• Harry Partch
• Tui St. George Tucker
• Nicola Vicentino

Tunings and
scales

Non-octave- repeating scales	Alpha scale Beta scale Gamma scale Delta scale Lambda scale (Bohlen–Pierce scale)
Equal temperament	15 17 19 22 23 24 31 34 41 53 58 72 96
Just intonation	Harry Partch's 43-tone scale Double diatonic

Concepts and
techniques

• Limit
• Otonality and Utonality
• Semitone
• Sonido 13
• Xenharmonicity
• Tonality diamond

Groups and
publications

• Boston Microtonal Society
• Genesis of a Music
• Huygens-Fokker Foundation

Compositions

• Beauty in the Beast
• quarter tone pieces
• just pieces
• Mother
• Sonata for Microtonal Piano
• Suite for Microtonal Piano
• Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media

Other topics

• Enharmonic keyboard
• Generalized keyboard
• Modernism (music)

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