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=Biographical sketch= | =Biographical sketch= | ||
Jopah taught at various universities in Talma and Naquiz. | Jopah taught at various universities in Talma and Naquiz. | ||
=Philosophical ideas= | |||
Jopah believed that ancient Talman science, philosophy, music and languages were unified, and all of them were simply lenses through which the human world and possibly even the physical world could be understood comprehensively. He often explored the interconnections between these different perspectives, interpreting facets of one discipline in terms of another. | |||
The Tigol language with its rich phonetic and grammatical system provided him with lots of musical and philosophical ideas. He believed that Tigol was unique among Tricin languages in that it has consonants articulated at three different points in the body: the lungs (séimhiú), the throat ("plain" consonants and vowels), and the nose (urú). | |||
=Contributions= | =Contributions= | ||
==Tuning theory== | ==Tuning theory== | ||
His (commentary on Sondmorið) described a wide variety of just intonation tunings, including: | His (commentary on Sondmorið) described a wide variety of just intonation tunings, including: | ||
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It's remarkable that Jopah composed very little during his lifetime; only one piece of his survives, ''Tłüa thrăhoy id-Eal mi-Wă'ech'' (meaning? should be a sentence). However, Jopah's poetry is very popular in modern Talma and has been set to music by quite a few composers; most notably the Clofabian composer Abediterol Benadryl. | It's remarkable that Jopah composed very little during his lifetime; only one piece of his survives, ''Tłüa thrăhoy id-Eal mi-Wă'ech'' (meaning? should be a sentence). However, Jopah's poetry is very popular in modern Talma and has been set to music by quite a few composers; most notably the Clofabian composer Abediterol Benadryl. | ||
Jopah's understanding of tuning was more metaphysical than practical. | Jopah's understanding of tuning was more metaphysical than practical. For example Jopah proposed a novel 31 tone scale: | ||
1/1 64/63 21/20 16/15 35/32 10/9 8/7 7/6 6/5 128/105 5/4 80/63 21/16 4/3 48/35 45/32 64/45 35/24 3/2 32/21 63/40 8/5 512/315 5/3 12/7 7/4 9/5 64/35 15/8 40/21 63/32 2/1 | 1/1 64/63 21/20 16/15 35/32 10/9 8/7 7/6 6/5 128/105 5/4 80/63 21/16 4/3 48/35 45/32 64/45 35/24 3/2 32/21 63/40 8/5 512/315 5/3 12/7 7/4 9/5 64/35 15/8 40/21 63/32 2/1 | ||