tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 02 09:14:55 2000

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Re: Klingon Music



TPO wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
I've been silent too long
but to be technical, between one A and the next there are 12 tones, 6
whole and 6 half, 8 of these tones have names and the other 4 are simply
the sharp and flat of other tones

it's probable that the same tones are in Klingon music, just one
additional one has a name instead of being a sharp/flat
-- 
jeffpicard

'oH taQqu', 'oH QaQ

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