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

From:Terrence Donnelly <pag000@...>
Date:Thursday, June 15, 2000, 18:22
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 http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000 http://www.geocities.com/weseb_2000