musical talk? (sally)

--- On Sat, 24 Oct Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
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>Drat, this was a concept I had many many years ago, and people went...
>"huh?"  My notion was that it was chords that expressed grammar--and
>INTERVALS--whether it was a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth or a sixth
>in the succession of notes or chords.  It is easier to hear intervals
>between notes than specific notes by themselves.  By "two notes," I'm
>assuming, Nik, that you mean two notes played together?  Or two notes
>played in succession?
Great idiots, er minds, think alike ;-) I'd an idea for a cat-like
alien who'd dual vocal chords so the 'tonal' languages of that world
used  pitch, as chinese does, to distinguish homophones, while the
interval carried other info like "formality" fer' instance. ;-)

Regards

Baba