Written representations of Proto-Protogen

Proto-Protogen has a very inconsistent representation, owing to multiple modes of representing the same words or tonemes.

Tonemic representations

Tonemic representations of Proto-Protogen represent the actual tonemes, making it so that the reflected word is secondary.

The main method of accomplishing this is to use a special variant of musical notation, called "Proto-Protogen notation". Rather than using sharps, this method of representing Proto-Protogen names each note in an octave from A to L, although A is the same in both. The octave also starts from A rather than C (Proto-Protogen D), meaning that for notes between that note and the next A, the octave appears to be one lower than in standard notation. These two changes together mean that middle C is known as D3, rather than C4.

There are also several punctuation marks that alter the number of morae a note has or the precise value of a note:

• Unmarked letter is a quarter note (1 mora)
• ⟨+⟩ means to double the length of the note
• ⟨-⟩ means to halve the length of the note
• ⟨'⟩ replaces the note and means rest
• ⟨~⟩ means 50% longer (dotted)
• ⟨T⟩ means this note is 33% shorter (part of a triplet)
• Also, {X} (where X is a number) means to raise the note X cents

Logemic representations

Logemic representations write the actual word being represented, treating its tonemes as secondary. This is useful for if the writer does not know what the tonemes of the word are.

The main way of accomplishing this is to write the title of the song the leitmotif was pulled from in parentheses or brackets.