tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 29 14:35:11 1998
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Question from a newbie
- From: Paul Hahn <[email protected]>
- Subject: Question from a newbie
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:35:01 -0500 (CDT)
Howdy. (That is, nuqneH!) I haven't studied tlhIngan Hol for several
years, and I never really knew that much of it, but I recently bought
KGT and was intrigued by the section in the Argot chapter on musical
terms. I'm a musician and very interested in non-standard tuning
systems, so when I read that tlhIngan music was based on a different
scale than human, I was intrigued.
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? 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?
--pH <[email protected]> http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote
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