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

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, September 10, 2007, 4:42
> >caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> > > > > Does anyone want to share his or her conlang words > > for musical instruments and other musical terms? I'm always > > looking to enrich the Senjecan vocabulary. >
More than I realized in Kash-- e rinda ya haniyu kaçili 'music is the soul of the people' rinda music kerinda musician cindarinda the musical scale (< çindar 'climb'+...) rinju(ra) to sing (of adults) andrinju(ra) song lali to sing (of children, and the cries of "birds") perhaps ~ 'piping' rinjaros a "morning song" expressing hope, anticipation of good things to come rinjoret an "evening song" expressing sadness, disappointment, regret over things not done rinjumuñ to chant tam, tum, tom onomat. for drumming tatam musical beat, rhythm tandam; mundum to play a drum tatandam a drum-roll emundum a drum andambro a march (tambro to march, lit. beat+two) matange k.o. xylophone tranji wooden mallet for playing same; also, drumsticks pom onomat. for gongs ambom a gong pombom to play a gong trambom padded mallet for same fuwi to blow epuwi a flute (recorder type) fakus a Lañ-lañ flute, made from an arm or shin bone epukiman k.o. panpipes (ethnic) pipoñ k.o. flute (recorder) (Gwr, ethnic) calin single-reed "clarinet", various sizes vembom double-reed, various sizes congo reed keper k.o. viol (no doubt, various sizes) tasutan k.o. lute colos strings (also 'tendon') patone k.o. accordion/concertina (my corruption of "bandoneón" of tango fame) apul harp apuñanga "wind-harp", wind-chimes apundepet k.o. harpsichord (strings are plucked) tepet to strum, etepet plectrum tañ, tiñ onomat. large/small bell resp. andañ, etiñ large/small bell resp. rungono to tune (< kono to agree) mangos the human (i.e. Kash) voice --vangur ~basso profundo --vangaci ~bass/baritone (most common) --(ka)taren ~low tenor (male); contralto (fem.) (means "leader") --(ka)tarenji ~higher contralto (most common fem.) --vinda ~alto (fem.) --vindalat ~mezzo (fem) (due to structural/anatomical differences, adults do not have higher voices; Pavarotti and Schwarzkopf would amaze them) mepangos to perform music; to act a musical part munupangos counterpoint (< munuk 'compete, oppose') tarandará a trumpet/brass fanfare-- but no words yet for the brass instruments!! (and still more in the to-do, and the not-yet-approved lists)