tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 21 21:57:25 1997
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Re: yu-bIm-'egh
Jarno Peschier writes:
>...How about the Klingon Anthem? Would this still be Klingon music?
>Could it be Klingon music? Or do we have a problem there? As far as I
>can see it's not at all pentatonic.
It's *very* pentatonic! With less than a half dozen exceptions, each of
the notes fits a pentatonic scale quite well. Each of those exceptions
can be eliminated quite easily by choosing a different note that matches
the harmonic requirements of the piece.
>So would it be some piece of
>music composed by a non-Klingon and then (later?) have the Klingon
>lyrics added to it?
The non-Klingon lyrics presented on the Simon&Schuster web site are too
polished to be anything but the original, in my opinion. I'd rather be
impressed with Marc Okrand's ability to fit a Klingon translation of the
words to the existing music. :-)
-- ghunchu'wI'