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'''Etalocin''' (/ˈeɪtəloʊsɪn/ or /ˈeɪtəloʊkɪn/; [[Clofabosin]]: ''ẹtalocin'' /e(ː)talokin/, from [[Old Netagin]] ''Éthá'' + Clofabosin ''locin'' 'land'; [[Eevo]] ''Eeþa'') is a continent of the conplanet [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]].

[[Tíogall]] names (the Irish-looking ones) should be replaced with [[Chick Corean]] names

==Demographics==

===Languages===

The following language families are represented in Etalocin:

*[[Adetsib]]

===Linguistic areas===

Linguistic areas:

*Talma (head-initial, definiteness, more analytic)

***Aspiration and gemination

***1 or 2 rhoticity-agnostic liquids: r is /r~l/, l often vocalizes into a uvular or pharyngealized resonant

**Tsrovesh, Desperanto

**IE, Uralic or "Altaic" aesthetic

Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine World]. Etalocin boasts a robust tradition of intellectual activity, especially in mathematics and music. However, Etalocian society is a highly stratified meritocracy, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes.

 

The social cost of nonconformity (especially for men) was quite severe. Crimes were punished harshly (often by forced labor, torture, castration, or death, in addition to public shaming).

Polygamy was and still is legally recognized in Etalocin cultures, though many people are monogamous.

===Traditional elite culture===

Elite boys were first educated in either a "boarding school" which taught a curriculum of rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, fine arts, and science, or a military academy. By age 15 they were expected to enter into university study (or military service) in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. To enter specialization one was required to pass the entrance exam administered by a university. If one could not enter specialist training he was effectively banished from elite society. Those who passed the "boarding school" curriculum but failed to specialize usually worked as "managers", low-level officials or schoolteachers. One or more requirements could be waived for a child of exceptional ability in one area.

Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists.

Just intonation was initially an attractive choice as it was considered easy to tune and evaluate musicians on. Primes higher than 5 may have come from an early tradition of throat singing where having a deep voice and the ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-14) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, a major reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.  

Music theory and mathematical questions have also motivated each other throughout Etalocian history.

*Tsâhong Tamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] is published ~> tonality diamonds, Partchian scales

*more ppl are composing; n-anies and other CPS's; development in non-tuning aspects of music such as forms and texture; emergence of opera; more instrumental; instruments start to assume modern form. Modulations start to become more common. Music mostly sounds "sweet" up to this time.

*"Romantic" period: freer use of expressive "dissonant" harmony; expansion in available timbres, longer music and larger orchestras; higher-limit (occasionally with ratios of 17, 19, 23, 29, 31) harmony is a given

*Temperament period: constant structures and non-meantone rank-2 temperaments; more "Baroque" in its approach to counterpoint; chamber music and sjogreo favored. Some see this as a step to democratizing music.

**Fugues/canons in weird temperaments is Etalocin's serialism analogue

*...

Standard pitch: 125 Hz; 120 Hz is used as "baroque pitch"

===Eastern Etalocin===

"Sophisticated" popular musicians borrow heavily from "classical" idioms such as: long, quasi-operatic song forms; use of traditional classical tunings and harmony (sometimes getting very harmonically complex chords); complex rhythms and time signatures inspired by non-Etalocian music.

Also something in the Baroque~chiptune cluster.

====Instruments====

====Tuning systems====

Some "modern" classical composers experiment with tuning systems such as high-limit (primes 17 or higher) JI, various EDOs and linear temperaments, especially higher-limit meantone.

Musical terms often come from [[Koine Netagin]].

Some common Talman instruments are given below with their [[Eevo]] names; they can be divided into continuous-pitch and fixed-pitch instruments.

=====Continuous-pitch=====

Free-pitch instruments are prized for their ability to play in any tuning; ''ngjeoms'' quartets and quintets are fertile ground for explorations of tuning systems.

*''ðavr'' = a 4-stringed fiddle, used for the treble register

**Tuning: 2:3:5:7, lowest string = 180 Hz

*''ŋamys'' = a 5-stringed bowed string instrument used for the treble and alto register

**Tuning: 2:3:5:7:9, lowest string = 120 Hz

**Desired features: should be loud as possible (while still being strong enough to support the strings)

**softwood; arched plates; sound post; should be thicker than a viola and be played vertically

**Electric ''ŋamys'' for vegans

**Tuning: 2:3:4:5:7:9, lowest string = 60 Hz

=====Fixed-pitch=====

*''sewvore'' = some multi-row autoharp thing controlled by a removable isomorphic keyboard (pieces are often written for two or more ''sewvore'' keyboards that are separated by a tuning offset so that the player has access to different octaves)

*aġġiakkātą - pasta guitar-like instrument of [[Nurian]] origin, with a bridge to separate two rows of strings that are an octave apart. Common models have 21 strings (folk), 29 strings (classical) or 37 strings (deluxe).

Tuning to temperaments was done with reference instruments or monochords before the invention of modern electronics.

*1/1 21/20 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 10/7 3/2

*441/440 tempered out: 1/1 21/20 11/10 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 11/8 10/7 3/2

*hexanic: 1/1 21/20 35/32 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 48/35 10/7 3/2

*major: 1/1 25/24 7/6 6/5 5/4 7/5 35/24 3/2

*minor: 1/1 25/24 15/14 6/5 5/4 9/7 75/56 3/2

*augmented: 1/1 15/14 7/6 5/4 9/7 35/24 3/2

*the 37 string model: 1/1 21/20 35/32 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 48/35 10/7 3/2 or 1/1 25/24 15/14 7/6 6/5 5/4 9/7 7/5 35/24 3/2

=====Music and veganism=====

String instruments used gut strings before the invention of modern materials. Thus vegan composers and performers traditionally avoided using string instruments.

*Older music uses 5, 7 limit JI scales (a variety of them; or free JI?)

*Culminates in 11 limit JI and temperaments (mostly as approximations to JI; perhaps also a temperament-temperament like say 22edo).  

====Musical forms====

*Art song settings of poems, with ''sbwiþ'', ''sewvore'', or chamber accompaniment. Poems may deal with:

**Humor, like Alice in Wonderland or Gödel, Escher, Bach

**Winter solstice cantatas - there was a period where many composers wrote winter solstice cantatas.

====Notation====

# Notes are written on a staff similar to our staff but the scale is 8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16, not the diatonic scale

==Calendar==

*Winter solstice (''Buirgeadráig''): A solstice festival where, among other things, they sing songs hoping for a *brighter* future.

 

 

Using umami ingredients such as seaweeds and mushrooms, and herbs and spices is common to make up for the lack of meat.

*pseudo-'''Rocēdy''' - Etalocian (possibly Ladippic) group of mathematicians, authors of the ''Braochad Manuscript'' which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra

*Līccot '''Attiȝanaedā''' - Ladippic astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion

*Jissārahim = Netagin geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation

*Snȳδiret '''Aecsārbe''' - [[Myuftseezh]] mathematician, who first approximated ''π'' to 96 base-12 places (~ 104 decimal places)

*Tsâhoŋ-Tamdi - composer, physicist and mathematician who wrote [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']], which has the first known mention of harmonic series; the just ratios generated by a given set of primes

*Rith-Mârotx - Netagin statesman and political theorist

*Fosen '''fat-Tazrir''' - Netagin chemist, physicist

*ʔAmmuħ '''far-Rothâbh''' - Netagin geometer, physicist and engineer

*Yakhef '''Batzaħ''' - Netagin physician who verified germ theory of disease

*Ngeysi '''Meȝnof''' - Netagin physicist and mathematician who invented calculus

*Early Chrome Finish composers (responsible for staff directions in [[Chrome Finish]])

**Elsa '''Nuzakh'''

*'''Yamphotsaphidamchuerai''' Ativan - [[Clofabian]] lexicographer and novelist <!-- Ativan even sounds somewhat Sanskrit (like ati-vara -- could mean 'lots of blessings'/'very blessed') -->

*'''Arformoterol''' Ziagen - [[Clofabian]] mathematician and composer

*'''Ergosterol''' Aleve ♀ - [[Clofabian]] nurse, pioneered modern nursing

*Aodhàn '''Càdlàg''' - [[Bhadhagha]] mathematician (real analyst)

*Tabhikh Vasèŋŋ - [[Nail Polish]] mathematician who worked on complex analysis

*[[Verse:Tricin/Sjameu Panzux|Sjameu '''Panzux''']] - [[Chick Corean]] linguist

*[[Verse:Tricin/Rewtt Sguðinn|Rewtt '''Sguðinn''']] ♀ - [[Eevo]] algebraist, number theorist, tuning theorist and composer

**Need some more similarly OP mathematicians.

*Eodhal '''Baesj''' - [[Xaetjeon]] mathematician; a student of Sguðinn

*Alað '''Olltind''' - Eevo linguist, discovered [[Sjowaazheñ]]

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