Re: Musical conlangs (was: Poetique)
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 8, 2004, 0:52 |
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In a message dated 1/7/2004 4:41:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:
>--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
>> > and I think phrasal pauses could work similar
>> > to natural speech.
>>
>> Indeed - why not? I see _no_ intrinsic reason
>> why one has to pause after each and every word
>> in any sort of language. It seems like a
>> design defect to me.
>Quite! We don't pause after every word in speech,
>unless it's for some dramatic effect.
>And music is very much the same way.
I presume the reason Solresol called for a pause at the end of each word is
that otherwise it would be very hard to tell where each word ends. If you have
only seven possible syllables/notes as in solresol (or a similar small number
for some other musical language), what would you do instead? That is, if
there are 7 notes represented as 1-7, how would one tell whether the sequence
12754363234452 should be divided into words as 127 5436 3 234 452 or 12 7543 632
344 52 etc. etc?
I suppose you could have all words be the same length, or you could have all
words end with note #4.
Any other ideas?
Doug
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