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Use written syllables to suggest music. | |
Rhythm is indicated using long and short vowels and open and closed syllables as in classical scansion (iambs, cretics, etc.)
Pitch is the funky bit; the vowel sounds are used to suggest not pitch itself but an approximation to the first derivative of pitch. Front vowels, expecially un-rounded front
vowels (e.g., 'ee'), suggest rising pitch. Back vowels, especially rounded back vowels (e.g., 'oo'), suggest falling pitch.
Consonants are then available for free semantic play, except that they sometimes affect the scansion by closing a syllable. You can hide actual meaning, or at least hints of it, among the consonants. Finding such meaning would be a bit like reading classical Hebrew where, I'm told, vowels are only marked as an afterthought.
Musical Language
http://en.wikipedia...ki/Musical_language
[Ronx, Feb 01 2007]
Canntaireachd
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Canntaireachd
Prose notation, vowels indicate pitch, consonants indicate gracenotes [pocmloc, Jan 19 2010]
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. wp bp . d bp . wp bm bm |
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I was thinking there would be vowels, [m_Al_com], just that they would do more of a musical job than a semantic job. |
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When i saw the title i thought
it was about the *other* type
of scat................. |
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yeah, this isn't what I thought at all. |
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Not disappointed, though. |
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can we pick another abbreviation besides 'bm?' |
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I think you'd need a lot of vowel control |
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This would only work if urine the mood. |
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how would old mcdonald be annotated? |
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Not sure: thinking about it ... |
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Schwa schwa schwa doo deh dah duh
Eeber aaber oh. |
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