Re: Conlang music
From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 21:05 |
Then Enya album is Amarantine, and the language is
Loxian:��http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarantine_(album)��http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxian��Enya
and her lyricist Roma Ryan have decided to copyright�the language, and profit
by it. You can make of that what
you�will.��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Jan 7, 2009, at 12∞53 PM,
Fredrik Ekman wrote:��> Sai wrote:�>�>> What music do you know of whose
lyrics are in a conlang?�>�> A couple of years ago there was a contesting
piece in the�> Eurovision Song�> Contest that the composer claimed to be in
a conlang. It may have�> been the�> Belgian contribution. I think it was
discussed here, so search the�> archives.�>�> There is a song in
Esperanto in the movie Road to Singapore. The�> film is�> in the public
domain, so the song may be as well. (Btw, if anyone�> knows�> where to
download the film, please let me know.)�>�> I seem to remember that there
is music in the Zenturadi language in�> the�> Japanese movie Macross: Do
You Remember Love?�>�> I am also fairly sure that Enya had a song on one of
her recent�> records in�> a conlang of her own (thus not
Tolkien-related).�>�> And I have this nagging feeling that a Swedish choir
made an entire�> record�> in Transpiranto, which is an Esperanto travesty.
If there is genuine�> interest, I might be able to find out the
details.�>�> Fredrik�
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