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RE: Klingon Music



ja' DloraH:

> > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Mike Crane wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have the 'Degh' excerpts and, from the net, several other
> > > > samples of Klingons singing.
> 
> latlh chovnatlh yIngu'
> 'ej bIH Daq yIngu'
> What "other" samples do you have?
> 
> 
> > 	There has been a lot of discussion on what a 'nonave' is, and how
> > Klingon music relates to Terran music.  I can't remember who's
> > idea it was,
> > but someone came up with the notion that a nonave is equivalent
> > to an octave
> > and a fifth, thus: (yu C, bIm E, 'egh F, loS G, vagh A, jav C', Soch E',
> > chorgh F', and yu G').  The next nonave would continue from
> > there, ending up on yu D'''.
> > 	- tuv'el
> 
> Disclaimer: I am most definitely not an expert on music
> I guess this is more as a question than a statment.
> In either an octive or nonave, when you jump from a note at one level to
> the
> same note on the next level you are doubling the frequency.  In an octive
> that distance is divided into seven notes.  In a nonave its divided into
> more notes; but jumping from one level to the next is still just the
> frequency doubled.
> 
> qar'a'?
> 
	toH!  This is not confirmed by Maltz (or anyone that I've heard),
but if it is correct, a nonave is the frequency tripled instead of just
doubled, and is divided into eight notes, three triads.

	- tuv'el



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