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| ==Ideas==
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| <poem>
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| something more "gestural" like partch's music?
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| but not as corporeal
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| i'll go with an aesthetic between gayageum sanjo and partch's music
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| the music of clofabolocin is mostly centered on solo improvisation, exploring harmony, melody, and rhythm (instruments are divided into those three categories)
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| or solo improvisation with narration à la Partch's Li Po lyrics
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| clofabians love to play with technique, so with a spúith they do things like playing melodies purely on the sympathetic strings, using the body as a drum, striking the strings with spoons, playing complex ornaments on the sympathetic strings with a slide ...
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| penicillin bows have resonators
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| so people can play one bow with another
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| dunno about that
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| that may make the bow too heavy
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| the penicillin is fretted and the frets are nylon wires just like strings, so they can be plucked
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| the tuning of a clofabian instrument depends on the instrument (and may even vary from instrument to instrument since ensemble playing is rare)
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| music to a clofabian could be mainly about individual expression
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| and, they have timpani!
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| so it's common for them to play melodies on it
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| flutes don't have sophisticated key systems like they do in western music (they're typically tuned to a 7 tone quasi equal scale)
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| clofabian phonology is sufficiently simple that they could sing poems into a flute!
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| producing a 2 part counterpoint
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| flutes could have keys though, so that key clicks would be possible
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| "drumming" on them is one possible flute technique
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| there could be a clofabian saying that goes something like "you can't teach someone to live gracefully or to play the spúith well"
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| </poem>
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| ==Instruments== | | ==Instruments== |
Revision as of 02:29, 5 June 2019
History
Instruments
Some instruments used in Clofabian music include the spiusin/spüśın, a kind of harp or lyre with sympathetic strings; penicillin, a psalmodicon-like instrument (which is, incidentally, called moldpill in Estonian); ditoren, the crychord; and the sevoren (borrowed from Eevo sewvore) (an isomorphic keyboard).
Tunings
Clofabian tunings depend on the instrument. However, "Diaphonic cycles" (scales based on JI ratios with a common numerator) and "Helixsong cycles" (scales based on JI ratios with a common denominator). Meantone is also commonly used.
Timeline
"Classical"
Improvisation-based traditions.
Modern
- Quasi-Baroque music written by Salmenol Zyrtec
- Baroque chiptune is what it says on the tin: chiptune that sounds Baroque-ish, or harpsichords or organs playing music that would be perceived as more retro video game-like by Terrans. Chiptune as adapted by Clofabian video game makers.