Re: (OT) non-octave scales (was Re: various infotaining natlang tidbits)

At 10:37 AM 06/15/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2000/06/15 09:38:38 AM, DaW wrote:
>
>>What is the Klingon scale based on anyway?
>>
>    I am not sure, but it is fairly conventional tuning (12 tone Equal
>Temperament) but limited to "moody" pitches below fifths. BTW, GNP/Crescendo
>has a CD of Klingon music - composed by Ron Jones - in their vaults.
>Paramount has not allowed them to release it AFAIK.
>
In _Klingon for the Galactic Traveller_, Marc Okrand states that Klingon
music is nonatonic, but doesn't go into any detail.  Opinion is divided
over whether he meant that the normal Western octave is divided into
9 steps, or if the Klingon octave covers some other interval (such as
an octave-and-a-fifth).  At any rate, this bears no relation at all
to any Klingon songs heard in any Paramount productions, where the
scale is simply the Western 12-tone octave.

-- Terry

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