Re: Composing

 --- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
 ...
>How many other
> of you conlangers are so musical?
I'm an occasional composer (by which I mean that I
compose occasionally).  I've got a fiddletune or two,
as well as a violin and/or viola duet that is possibly
naive counterpoint work... I wanted to see if I could
make two different tunes that I'd written harmonize
with one another.  I like the result.  However, as a
violinist/violist I am mainly a melodic thinker.

Music was a huge chunk of my life from when I was
twelve till I went off to university, but it's
currently just a side thing/

I have a fascination, however, with the idea of music
in language/muiscal languages, as evidenced by the
relation of "Old Starrish" vowels to musical notes.

One of the speakers of Ikanirae Seru (children's
kingdom language) also came up with a way to represent
this language musically/intonationally, based on a
sort of pentatonic scale; vowels are represented by
single notes, while consonants are represented by
slides/contour tones. I should go to bed soon, so I
won't explain now, though.

But I have to add that I also dream of to invent a
musical language, where a beat would be equivalent to
a syllable, and could contain anywhere from 1 to 4
notes.

Rachel, who has a plethora of ideas and always gets
stalled in the preliminary stages.


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