[85241] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Conlang music
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jan 8 10:08:59 2009
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:05:53 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
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> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:43:43 -0800
> From: sai@saizai.com
>
>> What music do you know of whose lyrics are in a conlang?
>>
>> Have any of you created such?
>>
>> (FWIW, we're also interested in using such music for the LCS
>> podcast.)
Elizabeth Lawrence wrote:
> I wrote a lullaby in klingon, and I know Qanqor HoD has written a
> number of original pieces. There are also any number of other people
> who have translated songs into klingon, but I'm guessing you are more
> interested in the original works.
A lot of people have written original Klingon songs and poems. I have.
Be careful though: some of us are protective of our copyrights!
I once wrote a Klingon poem in iambic pentameter as part of a qep'a'
qaDHom (an informal challenge at a conference). I've got it floating
around somewhere; I should upload it to my website. I also wrote one in
alliterative verse: http://www.trimboli.name/klingon/ghuHmoHQoQ.html
I have not set either to music. KLINGON FOR THE GALACTIC TRAVELER (ISBN
978-0671009953) has a lot of information on Klingon music, including the
fact that it's usually in a nonatonic scale:
http://www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?nonatonic%20scale
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