Re: musical systems (was fictional worlds)

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:30:07 +0100, bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> wrote:

> --- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
>> Olaetian has words for different kinds of musical
>> instruments. I
>> actually drew crude pictures of some of them, and
>> made notes on the
>> pitch range of each one.
>
>how are they tuned ? do you use the twelve-degree
>scale or modern western music, the 7 degree scale of
>old western music, the 5-degree scale of eastern
>music, or what ?
The drawings are from around 1980, before I knew anything about tuning
beyond 12-note equal temperament. I have one brief sample of Olaetian music
from then, which doesn't amount to much, but in 1988 I did a couple of
arrangements of Olaetian music on the Amiga, including one based on this
1980 fragment (Kroçnardsklestj), which later ended up in a MIDI
arrangement: http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/krocnardsklestj.mid

>btw, any vocabularly relating to all of this ? modes
>of the scale, harmonic intervals, note names, &c.
In fact, Olaetian has a word for the mixolydian mode (xonik), but I can't
find any of the others in the dictionary.

I haven't thought much about Olaetian music, but some of the examples on
the Jarda music page are based on more recent concultures.

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Jarda/music.html

The "Mizarian Porcupine Opera" mentioned on the Jarda page was one of my
early attempts at writing in 15-note equal temperament, one of two
prominent scales used by Mizarians (22-note ET being the other one) which
are compatible with a new system of tuning that has acquired the name
"porcupine temperament". Mizarians also use other scales, but porcupine
temperament is currently one of my favorite scales, in particular a subset
of 15 notes from 37-ET. Now I'm thinking that the Mizarian scales are
probably 15 and 22-note subsets of 37-ET, instead of the 15 and 22-note
equal scales I was using before.

For technical details of porcupine temperament, with a chord progression
example, see this page:

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/temp-porcupine.html

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