tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 21 07:58:30 1997
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Klingon Scale/conmusics
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Klingon Scale/conmusics
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:56:56 -0500
This appeared on the CONLANG list recently. As far as I can follow this,
it looks like charghwI's theories on Klingon music are at least do-able.
reH lugh charghwI' jay'.
-- ter'eS
>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:37:56 -0700
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>From: John Chalmers <[email protected]>
>Subject: Klingon Scale/conmusics
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <[email protected]>
>
>How can I get more details on the Klingon scale?
>
>John R. Pierce and Heinz Bohlen independently discovered a harmonizable
>9 tone scale that repeats at the 3/1 (octave and fifth, perfect 12th).
>Divide the 3/1 into 13 parts (i.e., take the 13th root of 3) and select
>a 9 tone mode from this (0 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 of the 13th root of 3,
>1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1). The octave is approximately 8 degrees of this scale.
>Use chords whose frequencies are in the approximate relation 3:5:7:9
>as basic consonances. Several pieces of music have been composed in
>this scale at Stanford and by independent composers, though nothing
>Klingonish AFAIK.
>
>Enrique Moreno has experimented with the 12th root of 3 and composed
>some music in it.
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>--John
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