[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon musical scale

[Steven Boozer]

There was an article about this in the KLI Wiki, but it's no longer accessible. Cf.
http://www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?nonatonic%20scale

However, trying to find another copy on the web, I came across:
http://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/klingon-music-theory-part-1-intro/

and

http://www.klingonmusic.net/2012/04/01/klingon-music-theory-introduction-part-1/
http://www.klingonmusic.net/2012/04/01/klingon-music-theory-introduction-part-2/


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



From: Brad Wilson [mailto:bmacliam at aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 6:02 PM
To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon musical scale

Prompted by the recent KWOD {'egh}, I started writing a note about the Klingon "nonatonic" scale, but it quickly turned into a long treatise on the application of multi-centered musical tunings and applications to musical production. So, I decided to not post it ... but anyone that has an interest in a rather technical examination of the Klingon musical scale, please let me know, and I'll send you a copy.

The gist of the note was a comment on the fact that the "nonatonic" scale has only 8 intervals. We number the tones in our Terran scales without counting the last tone, which is a repeat of the starting tone, only one octave higher or lower. The 9 tones of the Klingon scale are named in similar fashion - yu / bIm / 'egh / loS / vagh / jav / Soch / chorgh / yu - which leads me to conclude that MO didn't understand the details of musical notation when he named this a "nonatonic" scale, or perhaps there is a "hidden" note that has not been revealed to us yet. Of course, the Klingon fashion may be to count the ending tone, and what a Klingon would call a nonatonic scale, a Terran musician would call an octatonic scale.

At any rate, this thing I've written is pretty technical, going into the various frequency & string lengths required to obtain a possible 9-note scale.
If you'd like a copy, let me know.
Brad Wilson, aka gheyIl
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