Re: Musical terms (Was: Playing the banjo (Was: Latin help))

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:27:33 +0100, Geoff Horswood
<geoffhorswood@...> wrote:

>--- Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:
>
>> An impressive list.
>
>I'll say!
What the Messrs Horswood and Koller have said!

Here's mine so far:

Cf. http://benung.freehostia.com/index.php?go=culture&action=music -- there
isn't more yet unfortunately.

Traditional instruments:

batey -- stick (for drumming)
bidamihanye -- xylophone (< bidan, 'block' + 'mihan', 'wood')
bonay -- drum
damas -- fanfare
ding -- bell
dong -- gong (imaginative, innit?)
eysang -- bow
gin -- traverse flute
manting -- guitar-like lute
sisan -- violin-like lute

Pitches:

avan -- bass
eyra -- bariton
iray -- tenor
ling -- soprano

Music-related verbs:

bonayyam -- to drum
dapyam -- to play
gihayam -- to blow
haruyam -- to beat
maliyam -- to sing
pambayam -- to strum
takatyam -- to clap
tikyam -- to pick (opp. of strumming)

Music-related nouns:

dagay -- piece (of music)
dangkeb&#257;n -- solo (< dapao, 'to play' + akebay, 'alone' IIRC)
dangkebay -- soloist
dapar -- instrument (music)
dikam -- theme (music)
gebisan -- motif (music)
irayeno -- pitch
lentan -- sound
lulan -- note (music)
malino -- song
malyan -- singing (in German 'Gesang')
mapang -- finger
maras -- movement (music)
matoyan -- timbre (< mato, 'warm', cf. matan, 'warmth')
p&#257;taday -- duration
paring -- pick (music)
sapay -- hand
tadyas -- rhythm
tangayaye -- audience (< tangaya, 'listener' < tangyam, 'to listen')
tingra -- music
tingrayeno -- orchestra (< tingra, 'music' + yeno, 'group')
tinu -- arm
vasi -- string (music)

Materials:

daram -- bone
debang -- metal
kongey -- guts (for strings)
mihan -- wood, wooden
saka -- leather
yutan -- skin

... as you can guess I was (a) pretty much bored that afternoon and (b) all
terms that have "(music)" behind them usually mean something else.

Regards
Carsten

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