Re: [lojban] le jbozgi be la'o <Lobster Quadrille>

[Rob Speer <rob@twcny.rr.com>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:31:04PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> >     e'o sutra doi cakcurnu i ko ti'a zgana ua pa
> >     D A *C  E Bb   E  *C C G  A *G  E  E E *E  E
> >          C (with 7)    C         C          Am
> >
> >     xajyfi'e noi jbitrixe gi'e me mi rebla stapa
> > 	 E B*G D  Bb   G *G  D G D *D  G  D  E  *E E
> > 	     G - Gm       G         G            C
> >
> >     i ui a'a ro le jukni e le respa ca se ganse
> > 	G CG*E E  A  D *C  G D  D *D  E  E  D *E  D
> >          C          G          C           G
> >
> >     gi'e denpa mi le canre i pei do ba kansa dansu
> > 	 G D *D  E  G  D *E  D G  Eb *A  E  E  E *E  C
> > 	      G           Gm6         Am          C
> >
> >        i aipei naipei aipei naipei aipei do ba dansu
> > 	   G *F Eb  F  Eb *F Eb  F  Eb *F Eb  A  E *E  C
> >           F7           F7           F7          C
> >        i aipei naipei aipei naipei naipei do ba dansu
> > 	   G *F Eb  F  Eb *F Eb  F  Eb *F Eb  A  E *E  C
> >           F7           F7           F7          C
> >
> > An entirely passable chord progression. The fact that it's almost always major
> > tonic (C) or dominant (G) gives it a cheerful sound, except it takes an odd
> > turn toward jazz in the last two lines.
> >
> > (I can see a discussion on how to name chords in Lojban coming on...)
> 
> if a chord is two notes, and each note is a vowel/dipthong, then you can
> represent the chord with substituting any valid consonants in between
> those vowels.  Makes a great memory device! If I'm understanding you, and
> G + *F is a chord, then it's named *ai*ei*, where * = any consonant, or
> nothing at all. So ".ai dei" is a name of the chord, as is "nai pei"!

Sorry if the alignment of the text made you think each chord corresponded to
two notes. A chord is typically three notes (and chords with a 6th or 7th are
four notes). I made a chord correspond to each accented syllable (the ones I
marked with *), putting it and the following three unaccented notes into a
'measure'.

A measure does not have to contain all the notes of a chord, but you can
usually tell what chord it suggests. There's also a bit of common sense
involved - if you see A and C, it's probably A minor, even though it could
hypothetically be some Gershwin-esque chord like G-dominant-13-flat-5.

The chords I used are:
C   <C E G>
Am  <A C E>
G   <G B D>
Gm  <G Bb D>
Gm6 <G Bb D Eb> or <G Bb D E> (in this case, both)
F7  <F A C Eb>

A chord could be named by its notes, but you'd just have to use longer names.
So perhaps G would be "mijyste" or "tigypre" and F7 would be <ai.o'upei>.
-- 
Rob Speer