"This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. There are many implications in polytempic polymicrotonality as a 21st century polyphony that could potentially bring back classical form into today?s musical climate. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multi-dimensional, akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art. The book has historic significance as it is the only book of its category, or genre, in music that features microtonality in music composition or production. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives?s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925 and realized recently by Johnny Reinhard in 1996."--Publisher's website.