Re: musical talk? (sally)

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Baba wrote:

> --- On Sat, 24 Oct Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> >
> >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
>
Cool!  But what about encoding other kinds of information?  I got into
quagmires because it was just too difficult to turn chords into grammar.
S.
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