musicalexemes (was Re: Interesting Words)

In a message dated 05.11.2001 06:45:13 AM, William Annis
(annis@BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU) writes:

>This creation of "weird" lexemes is part of the reason I
>invent languages.
    That is a big attraction for me, too. The challenge of "re-defining" all
that I know or think I know ; )

>  <SNiP>  My own obsessions come into play for this, of course, so there I
keep working on fairly precise terminology for:
>
>        <SNIP>
>        * electronic music (a lot of timbre terms)
>        * microtonal music (many ratios get their own name)
>        <SNIP>
    Yepyep, those are 2 of my creative "obsessions" as well... I have an
Ensoniq ASR-X Pro tuned to an unequal, non-Just Intonated, non-octave scale
system based on a Tibetan scale and an Indonesian "Pelog" scale.

>MÚEN v.st. "swooshy," "slow-pad sounding" describes sounds with slow
>       attack and decay and a rich, often rolling timbre; originally referred
>       to sounds like wind through trees
>
>        The default meaning of any interval or gamut name refers to
>just intervals, so _paipathe_ refers to the major second 9:8. A
>tempered interval is usually indicated with the word _corsauth_
>colored which doesn't specify what sort of tempering is going on. Take
>care to distinguish this from a _hemsauth_ changed interval, which
>refers to normal note changes to add variation to a theme, including
>raising and lowering intervals, for example, raising a minor to a
>major third.
>
>        I make and listen to a lot of electronic music, so things
>like, achurnaure n. "near timbre," which refers to ambient,
>non-musical sounds embedded within a musical texture, is very useful
>to me.
>
    Neat-O... my ConArtLang Lego is also moving along these vectors...
William, can you share with me your musical term word-list? In return, any
developments I come up with I will share with you. Anyone else wanna ...
<reply offlist, please>

    Some months ago, Luca suggested to me that certain musical terms (mostly
Italianate) can be used as adverbs.

    And then of course I gotta incorporate all these Japanese onomatopoeia
lexemes I have collected into Lego...

    Lego is gonna be quite odd. ::goes back to tweaking Lego::

    czHANg

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