tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 01 23:29:10 1998
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Re: Question from a newbie
ja' Paul Hahn <[email protected]>:
>However, I'm a bit confused by one thing: MO calls the tlhIngan scale
>nonatonic (i.e. nine tones to the octave), but what he then actually
>describes is an _octa_tonic scale, since the ninth note duplicates the
>first. Has anybody ever asked him to clarify this?
Yes. He says that it's nine tones per *nonave*. :-) It might be possible
that his research into ancient Klingon music is faulty, and {Hut} actually
*is* one of the notes of the scale, but that's unwarranted speculation on
my part.
>Or should I just go
>by the description and chalk up the incorrect use of the term
>"nonatonic" to MO's unfamiliarity with standard musical usage?
"Standard musical usage" obviously does not apply to a Klingon musical scale.
-- ghunchu'wI'