From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Sat Mar 6 22:55:54 2010 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:37:20 -0400 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6109; Wed, 14 Oct 92 11:35:43 EDT Received: by UGA (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) id 1405; Wed, 14 Oct 92 11:35:42 EDT Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:59:58 BST Reply-To: I.Alexander.bra0122@oasis.icl.co.uk Sender: Lojban list From: I.Alexander.bra0122@OASIS.ICL.CO.UK Subject: TECH zgike lerfu X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Wed Oct 14 11:37:20 1992 X-From-Space-Address: @uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: This is a proposal for musical notation in Lojban, suitable for simple melodies. There's obviously some room for expansion, but I suspect full orchestral scores are best left to their traditional notation :) Bb C# Eb F# G# A B C D E F G A by.my. cy.zy. .ebumy. fy.zy. gy.zy. .abu by. cy. dy. .ebu fy. gy. .abu flat = b = mleca bu = my. sharp = # = zmadu bu = zy. natural = jinzi bu = jy. C below middle C = cy.ci middle C = cy.vo C above middle C = cy.mu I thought that octave numbering was fairly standard, so I checked some references to try and get the numbers right. I discovered that there were several standards, so I chose one of my own that seemed most appropriate. The octave is numbered from A to A, and starts with A1 as the lowest note on a piano keyboard. If you really want subsonics, you can always use A0, A-1, ... breve = whole note = pa minim = half note = fi'ure crotchet = quarter note = fi'uvo quaver = eighth note = fi'ubi semiquaver = sixteenth note = fi'upaxa dotted minim = cifi'uvo dotted crotchet = cifi'ubi dotted quaver = cifi'upaxa Time signatures can use the same lerfu. 3/4 = cifi'uvo 6/8 = xafi'ubi 4/4 = vofi'uvo = C = kampu bu 2/2 = refi'ure = = tei kampu bu fi'ure foi rest = sy. = smaji bu slur / tie = ry. = ranji bu bar line = ty. = temci bu zai selsanga bu by.my. tei kampu bu fi'ure foi ki bu Bb (key signature) common time - half (time signature) [sticky] fi'ubi .abumu cy. ry. cifi'uvo cy. ty. fi'ubi .abu gy. ry. cifi'uvo gy. ty. Georgia, Georgia, fi'uvo sy. .abu dy. .abu ty. cifi'uvo gy. fi'ubi fy. gy. ty. the whole day through, just an fi'uvo .abu cy. .ebu dy. ty. fi'ubi by. cifi'ubi dy. fi'uvo .abu gy. ty. old sweet song keeps Georgia on my pa cy. ty. fi'ubi dy. dy. dy. dy. fi'ure gy.zy. ty. mind. (Georgia on my mind) fi'ubi .abu cy. ry. cifi'uvo cy. ty. fi'ubi .abu gy. ry. cifi'uvo gy. ty. Georgia, Georgia, fi'uvo sy. .abu dy. .abu ty. cifi'uvo gy. fi'ubi fy. gy. ty. a song of you Comes as fi'uvo .abu cy. .ebu dy. ty. by. dy.vo .abu .abu ty. sweet and clear as moonlight on the pa fy. ry. ty. fi'uvo fy. cifi'uvo sy. pines. There is obviously a lot of ambiguity here. I'm relying on the reader's musical intuition to supply most of the octaves, even where an interval technically crosses two different ones, and in some cases not to confuse note durations with octave numbers. I think this is acceptable in the interests of brevity, and the ambiguity can always be resolved explicitly if necessary. Iain.