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I'm making a story that involves creatures that speak a language which is base-something. Maybe binary, maybe hexidecimal, probably something else. Only, instead of speaking "one zero zero zero one" they would have musical notes. So imagine a random arrangement of your fav musical scale, where each note corresponds to a number.
My question is this... what musical scale has the most consonance? If these notes are going to be randomly arranged, they have to sound good in *any* order. I was thinking of using a pentatonic scale (which would mean a quinary language), because I heard it's particularly blessed with consonance. Where did I hear this? Someone made a random music machine, with hamsters and a pentatonic scale. http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/eceprojectsland/STUDENTPROJ/2002to2003/lil2/
Quinary would be a really slow language though, even if spoken really quickly. Are there any scales with the same or better consonance but more notes (in the same octive)?
Comments, solutions, all are appreciated. Thanks!
My question is this... what musical scale has the most consonance? If these notes are going to be randomly arranged, they have to sound good in *any* order. I was thinking of using a pentatonic scale (which would mean a quinary language), because I heard it's particularly blessed with consonance. Where did I hear this? Someone made a random music machine, with hamsters and a pentatonic scale. http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/eceprojectsland/STUDENTPROJ/2002to2003/lil2/
Quinary would be a really slow language though, even if spoken really quickly. Are there any scales with the same or better consonance but more notes (in the same octive)?
Comments, solutions, all are appreciated. Thanks!
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