After a successful defence, I’m in the final revision phase of my dissertation for the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, titled Lost in Harmonic Space: Navigating Music Without an Octave.‍ ‍Abstract

Publications

Harrop, Todd. “Jenseits der Oktave: Komponiere mit dem Bohlen–Pierce-System.” Positionen 144, edited by Bastian Zimmermann and Genoël von Lilienstern, 2025, pp. 56–61. Link ‍Text

—. “Just Chromatic BP Scales and Beyond.” 1001 Mikrotöne — 1001 Microtones, edited by Sarvenaz Safari and Manfred Stahnke. Bockel Verlag, 2015, pp. 181–201. Text

—. “Modulating or ‘Transferring’ Between Non-octave Microtonal Scales.” Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2016, pp. 211–215. Text

—. “On Mixing Scales: three compositions with 19 and 13 equal steps per twelfth.” Just in Tone and Time, edited by Benjamin Helmer and Georg Hajdu. Bockel Verlag, 2017, pp. 139–176. Text

[New] Harrop, Todd, Yuri Akbalkan and Elena Khurgina. “Notating, tuning and playing a Bohlen–Pierce harpsichord.” In proceedings: Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful, vol. 6, edited by Águstin Castilla-Ávila. Mackingerverlag, 2026, pp. 127–136. Link

Harrop, Todd and Nora-Louise Müller. “Composing in Bohlen–Pierce and Carlos Alpha scales for solo clarinet.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2016, pp. 597–602. Text