Re: conlang survey part 2

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:59:55 -0800, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
wrote:

>--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
>
>> So I've been thinking a lot about the Zireen
>> lately, and I'm trying to get a better sense of
>> what their world is like
>> before I start developing their languages.
>
>Indeed. So, how did their music ever turn out!?
>We never heard back after the recent discussion.
(on the Conculture list, for anyone who's curious. Dig back to mid-October
and look for the "Music for smaller people" thread.)

I've been too busy at work to have much time for Zireen music lately. I've
got a general idea of the kinds of tuning systems I want to use, and the
instruments, but I haven't been very successful in coming up with a style
that I like. Along the way, I discovered that the third movement of
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata sounds pretty good in the porcupine scale with
15 notes per octave:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2886/2886999.html

Some aspects of this piece are similar to the style I want to explore, and
it uses a hammered dulcimer, which is a popular Zireen instrument. I did
the first two movements also, to complete the set, but the third is the one
that sounds most like Zireen music.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/279/herman_miller.html

As far as Zireen languages, I've decided to start pretty much from scratch,
now that I have more experience, and later try to fit some of the old
Zireen languages into the new world once I've developed more of the new
langs. I'm also going to be developing new alphabets, since the Classical
Tenai alphabet never worked out well for langs with large sets of
consonants, and in any case, it doesn't seem reasonable that a whole planet
would use a single alphabet, especially with people as non-conformist as
Zireen.

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