Re: Music-conlangs & music

Hi!

R A Brown writes:
> James W. wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:40:33 +0100, "R A Brown"
> > <ray@...> said:
> [snip]
> >> Yep - the subject line explicitly refers to 'music-conlangs'. I
> >> thought I had made it clear that I was referring to those conlangs
> >> that use whole ranges of a musical scale of some sort or
> >> other. AFAIK there are _no_ natlangs that do this.
> >  Do you mean particular modes (like Major, Minor, Dorian, Locrian,
> > etc.)?
>
> Yes.
Are there langs that express grammatical categories in modes?
E.g. Major=indicative, Minor=subjunctive, Dorian=question?  And maybe
Phrygian=imperative?  That'd be quite cool. :-)

But if the utterance is too short to make the mode clear, you might
end up with some ambiguities.  Hehe.  Maybe additional text would be
added since a standard phrase with all seven note phonemes (depending
on the degree of distinction, you would need less). :-)

**Henrik

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