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? Nyctyris posts: 3
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I was thinking seven monophthongs corresponding to the seven notes (8th being a new octave). Diphthongs could easily be represented by two notes together. Of course, that implies that your language has at most triphthongs when "real" music might commonly have a five note chord!

Things like closed or back versions of the standard vowels could be represented by sharps or flats.

That leaves the question of consonants (perhaps syllables would be better?) but I am wondering id it would be possible to represent those through a second melody and/or rhythm. In piano this would be the other hand.

It would be complex to thw point of being unusable and have the dubious concern that simple melodies would contain meanings; on the other hand in regards to the former, it can as I said be auxillary and is better that way really; it need not be useable by humans.

For the latter issue, I have no answers or clear ideas on construction as yet. It would be near impossible to distinguish one melody from another and make sense of it.