tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 02 09:21:24 2000
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RE: Klingon Music
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, TPO wrote:
[paragragh on Klingon music snipped]
>
> 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'?
>
> DloraH
Err, no. In a nonave (as proposed) the frequency triples between the first
and ninth notes. Thus the ninth note in the nonave is an octave and a
fifth higher than first note. Example:
First note -- Middle C
Ninth note -- G above high C (oct+5th)
quljIb (who knows something about the mathematics of music)