Re: [lojban] music terms

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

> 
> On Friday 01 April 2011 09:51:15 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> > Now I notice, nitcion proposed "cistrxaioni,ane" for major and
> > "cistrxeioli,ane" for minor.  Comment, Pierre?
> 
> Someone else proposed those spellings and nitcion (who is Greek) suggested 
> changing them.
> 
> > In any case, what would you suggest should be the places in
> > the definition?
> 
> x1 is the foo-key of tonic x2 with notes x3, where foo is Ionian, Lydian, 
> autc. But that's just a suggestion.
> 

My music theory is virtually non-existent, so please bear with me.
Shouldn't "cistrxeioli" be "aeolian" i.e. "natural minor" (but not harmonic 
minor 

or melodic minor)?.  If, as you suggest, it should mean any of the three minors, 

then the only way to specify which of the three minors it is, would be to spell 
out all 

 the notes in x3 - ponderous to say the least.  If there were a distinct fui'vla 
for each 

of the three minors, then x3 would be unnecessary. But then which minor is the 
minor in "Beethoven's String Quartet in C# minor Op 131 "?

If, regardless of my suggestion, we were to have one fu'ivla for "minor", then 
wouldn't it be better to have x3 be the type (i.e. natural, harmonic or melodic) 

rather than the complete list of notes?

totus

On the other hand, if we were to keep

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