tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 02 13:30:18 1998
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Re: Question from a newbie
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Question from a newbie
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 16:31:19 -0400
>>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.
I'm not into music in any language, so am I really missing something here?
do 1
ra 2
mi 3
fa 4
so 5
la 6
ti 7
do 8
an octave... 1 thru 8; 1 and 8 are both do
yu 1
bIm 2
'egh 3
loS 4
vagh 5
jav 6
Soch 7
chorgh 8
yu 9
nonatonic... 1 thru 9; 1 and 9 are both yu
If what you're saying about the klingon scale was applied to our scale then
we really only have seven notes.
But Octave means eight.
I'm confused.
DloraH