Musical system - toki pi kalama musi or tkpm
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:10 am
toki sina mute! I'm new here, but i wanted to share a thing that i made.
This is a syllabary style musical notation for toki pona, and it is entirely based on the notes and harmony not rhythm. It's designed for guitar and piano.
It works with four parts
1. initial consonants are mapped as:
n I
m 2
l m3
p 4
k 5b
t 5
s m6
j m7
w 8
(i like to remember 'normaly poked sjw') [something to play with is majoring up the minor intervals, but I personaly prefer minor's bluesy flat 5th and can discern its notes better. note also having k as M6]
2. vowels work as harmonised notes are played along with the consonant vowel, like chord fractions. whether they're major or minor or diminished or dominant depends on whether the root note's chord is, so it's simply tonal. Also, Vb chord is simply major. they are mapped as:
a = (no accompanying note)
i = 3rd
e = 5th
o = 7th
u = 8ve
3. end syllable nasal (as in tenpo or kin) calls for a vibrated or bent note on guitar or keyboard. [edit:] Piano does the thing where it stoccato taps the 2 note.
4. we've run into initial consonantless vowels. these go like this
e = muted strum / scratch
o = bony/nail tap on wood
a = fleshy tap on wood
u = wu
i = ji
note: every word initial note is accented, but any player should do it naturally. I don't accent gramatical words, (and so wrote it as not being later) but this is a personal way of talking thing.
And key? that doesn't matter just define it first with a chord.
And now you're that much smarter. If you are fluent at music this isn't too hard to get used to, and keeps sounding interesting and varied (tawa mi). Attached is a transcription of 'kili lili' by jan Pije.
(it goes;
mi jo e kili.
ona li pona li lili.
mi moku lili e kili lili.)
o toki e pilin sina ali tawa mi
This is a syllabary style musical notation for toki pona, and it is entirely based on the notes and harmony not rhythm. It's designed for guitar and piano.
It works with four parts
1. initial consonants are mapped as:
n I
m 2
l m3
p 4
k 5b
t 5
s m6
j m7
w 8
(i like to remember 'normaly poked sjw') [something to play with is majoring up the minor intervals, but I personaly prefer minor's bluesy flat 5th and can discern its notes better. note also having k as M6]
2. vowels work as harmonised notes are played along with the consonant vowel, like chord fractions. whether they're major or minor or diminished or dominant depends on whether the root note's chord is, so it's simply tonal. Also, Vb chord is simply major. they are mapped as:
a = (no accompanying note)
i = 3rd
e = 5th
o = 7th
u = 8ve
3. end syllable nasal (as in tenpo or kin) calls for a vibrated or bent note on guitar or keyboard. [edit:] Piano does the thing where it stoccato taps the 2 note.
4. we've run into initial consonantless vowels. these go like this
e = muted strum / scratch
o = bony/nail tap on wood
a = fleshy tap on wood
u = wu
i = ji
note: every word initial note is accented, but any player should do it naturally. I don't accent gramatical words, (and so wrote it as not being later) but this is a personal way of talking thing.
And key? that doesn't matter just define it first with a chord.
And now you're that much smarter. If you are fluent at music this isn't too hard to get used to, and keeps sounding interesting and varied (tawa mi). Attached is a transcription of 'kili lili' by jan Pije.
(it goes;
mi jo e kili.
ona li pona li lili.
mi moku lili e kili lili.)
o toki e pilin sina ali tawa mi