Verse:Hmøøh/Talma/Music
Todo
What if I don't care as much about utonal chords as much as otonal ones?
Standardization
The Trician scientific unit for musical intervals is the vri, which is defined as the interval given by the frequency ratio exp(1/1728):1 ≈ 1.00187155617 cents. So it's in practice very similar in size to cents.
Some simple intervals in vri:
- 2/1 (octave) ≈ 1197.75832801 vri
- 3/2 (just perfect fifth) ≈ 700.643706813 vri
- 4/3 (just perfect fourth) ≈ 497.114621198 vri
- 5/4 (just major third) ≈ 385.592056672 vri
- 6/5 (just minor third) ≈ 315.051650141 vri
- 7/4 (harmonic seventh) ≈ 967.016081555 vri
- 11/8 ≈ 550.288047374 vri
- 13/8 ≈ 838.957505673 vri
- 81/80 (syntonic comma) ≈ 21.4661145576 vri
Standard pitch: 125 Hz; 120 Hz is used as "baroque pitch"
Temperament nomenclature
Modern music
There is somewhat less of a division between popular and art music than on Earth.
Some genres of popular music include:
- Lighter fare: simpler JI scales
- Minimalism
- "Prog rock/metal": Many popular musicians borrow heavily from classical idioms such as: long, quasi-operatic song forms; use of classical JI tunings and harmony; complex rhythms, time signatures and tunings inspired by non-Talman music.
- "Nerd music": often with sci-fi-themed lyrics; more "exotic" musically.
- "Baroque chiptune": a style inspired by old video games: Uses meantone temperament more often
- Film and video game music: Overlaps somewhat with modern classical music.
Modern art music:
- Partch-style "corporeal" musical dramas: These dramas are designed to be appreciated visually, narratively and emotionally as well as musically. Unlike in Western musicals or operas, the performers who play the instruments are also those who act out the parts.
Tuning systems
Modern composers often work with various equal temperaments. Some favorite equal temperaments are 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 27, 31, 41, 46, 53, 58, 72, 87. The most popular are 22 and 31.
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eevophone branch of PSyT
Classical music
The classical Talman musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals as approximating the intervals with rational frequency ratios. Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, 13 and higher limits. In modern times, there are broadly two approaches to this tuning, the choice of which is partly dictated by instrumentation and style: just intonation (possibly microtempered) and various equal temperaments.
History
Early
Throat-singing, natural horns, monochords lead to knowledge of higher harmonics; mainly overtone scales; mainly monophonic
Tsăhong Tamdi's treatise Elements of Harmony is published ~> Partchian tonality diamonds
Period 2
Johnstonian free JI; many choral, chamber and orchestral works from this period are considered part of the canon.
Period 3
(n,k)-anies, Euler-Fokker and other CPS's; constant structures
Modern art music
Neoclassical music (back to free JI)
good equal temperaments (19-EDO, 22-EDO, 27-EDO, 31-EDO)
The notion of EDOs began to enjoy attention; however, EDOs didn't really take off until the isomorphic keyboard was invented.
EDOs also allowed the birth of "Impressionist" music.
Instruments
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
- ŋams = 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 ŋams for vegans
- ŋamsóm = a ŋams that's a 2/1 lower
- Tuning: 2:3:4:5:7:9, lowest string = 60 Hz
- txovích fretless steel guitar tuned to a hexany
- lazóf = a trombone; exists in many different pitch ranges, such as soprano, alto, tenor, and bass lazóf
- musical saw
- gyvúas = a slide bassoon
- iskól = a slide flute
Fixed-pitch
- jogóm = a zither
- teem = a reed instrument
- fewm = a drum
- sewvore (named after the inventor, Jamon 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)
Music and vegetarianism
Copper strings and hoof glue were vegetarian substitutes for gut strings and hide glue.
Melodic theory
Some phases in Talman music:
- motif-based music
Musical genres and forms
Here are some genres and forms that may be found in both classical and popular music.
Art songs
Art songs, which emerged during the Romantic period, often have chamber accompaniment. Lyrics may be short poems dealing with nature and idyllic settings; love; mystical themes; short dialogues; or humor. However, some art songs are longer and feature multi-part narratives.
Polyphonic music
A common style of polyphony uses two melodic lines in a JI scale or free JI, and explores the JI dyadic harmony formed by the melodic lines. Three or four voices is considered quite adventurous.
Choral pieces
Orchestral pieces
Musical theater
Musical theater was traditionally based on myths or works of literature, and was developed greatly during the Romantic period. Modern works often take inspiration from literature and musical ideas from other cultures or contemporary works.
Cantatas
Cantatas were often written for special occasions or holidays, such as bwrjadreeg (Talman winter solstice).
Instrumental music
Instrumental music comes in various musical forms like in Western classical music.
Dance music
Some dances are in rhythms such as 5, 7, 10, or 25 beats per measure (but no with higher prime factors).
Music was also traditionally performed in eating establishments, not just in taverns but also in more high-end establishments. This type of music often resembled dance music. Tavern music, in particular, was usually improvised on the ðavr or the ŋams family.
Some dances are:
- A quasi-jig (in 6/8 or another triple compound meter)
Notation
Think about the nominal scheme. Possibilities:
- fa sol la ti do re mi = 7-13?
- A sort of Helmholtz-Ellis? do-ti = Pythagorean fifths
- special accidental to turn do-ti to 7/4.
Nurian music
The most well-known Nurian instrument is probably the aġġiakkātą [ædʒdʒækˈkaːtˠãː], a pasta guitar-like instrument 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).
Some tunings for aġġiakkātai:
- 1/1 11/10 6/5 5/4 11/8 3/2
- 1/1 25/24 7/6 5/4 7/5 3/2
- 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 29 string model: 1/1 21/20 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 10/7 3/2 or 1/1 25/24 7/6 6/5 5/4 7/5 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
Roshterian music
Notable figures
Early
- (the Partch) Tsăhong Tamdi - composer, physicist and mathematician who wrote Elements of Harmony, which has the first known mention of harmonic series; the just ratios generated by a given set of primes
- Early Windermere composers (responsible for staff directions in Windermere)
Classical
- Hădech Nușach: composer, well known for his string quartets
Period 3
- (the Wilson) Etsoj Jopah
- Inthar Tăhus: composer who put the seal of approval on Jopah's ideas. He came up with some of his own CS's as well.
- Rhooc Askuucis: a prolific composer
Modern art music
- Some Gene Ward Smith figure here.
- Smrehtaið Jawvlian: "Tolkien of music" (inventing musical cultures for conworlds); used a variety of EDOs
- Segin Þwhgad: composer of film music, musical dramas and fictional music
- Jamon Sewvore: resulting in the modern sewvore
- Tleeç Bwsað: Impressionist composer
Modern popular music
Works
- Some sci-fi-themed corporeal musical drama (named after an in-world character): based on the work of the pseudonymous author Þoogast P. Nosaŋve.