On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 15:57:35 +0000, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
-----Original Message----- Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, November 09, 2020 Klingon word: jav Part of speech: noun Definition: sixth tone of nonatonic musical scale
{KGT 72-73): Older Klingon music was based on a nonatonic scale--that is, one made up of nine tones. Each tone has a specific name, comparable to the "do, re, mi" system used in describing music on Earth. The nine tone names are (the first and ninth, as with Earth's "do," being the same): {yu, bIm, 'egh, loS, vagh, jav, Soch, chorgh, yu}. While the first three (and ninth) of these words
One becomes curious as to whether this represents an analog to the common American "movable 'do'" solfege scale, where 'do' is simply the tonic of a diatonic scale, or the European "fixed 'do'" solfege scale, where 'do' refers to (I believe) C.