Tonsilabo
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A tonsilabo is a syllable describing a tone
of a certain relative frequency
. Tonsilabos are used for writing or typing music
in the form of text
, as an alternative to music notation by design (drawing).
or Guido of Arezzo
and Zoltán Kodaly
, was invented in the year 2000 by Martin Strid, Sweden. The computer program Tone was developed shortly afterwards by Harald Breidenstein.
, though it is also capable of expressing many other properties of music with great precision, which cannot be well described by conventional musical notation
. Such properties include rhythmically repeated syncopation
, quarter tone
s and natural tones.
Musical tone
A musical tone is a steady periodic sound. A musical tone is characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity , and timbre . The notes used in music can be more complex than musical tones, as they may include aperiodic aspects, such as attack transients, vibrato, and envelope modulation.A simple...
of a certain relative frequency
Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency...
. Tonsilabos are used for writing or typing music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
in the form of text
Written language
A written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will instinctively learn or create spoken or gestural languages....
, as an alternative to music notation by design (drawing).
History
The concept of tonsilabos, as based on the music scale systems of BharataBharata Muni
Bharata was an ancient Indian musicologist who authored the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, dated to between roughly 400 BC and 200 BC. Indian dance and music find their root in the Natyashastra...
or Guido of Arezzo
Guido of Arezzo
Guido of Arezzo or Guido Aretinus or Guido da Arezzo or Guido Monaco or Guido d'Arezzo was a music theorist of the Medieval era...
and Zoltán Kodaly
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child....
, was invented in the year 2000 by Martin Strid, Sweden. The computer program Tone was developed shortly afterwards by Harald Breidenstein.
Use
Tonsilabos are used for denoting any kind of music using ordinary written characters only. In short, it is a rhythmisation of traditional solfègeSolfege
In music, solfège is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfège syllable...
, though it is also capable of expressing many other properties of music with great precision, which cannot be well described by conventional musical notation
Musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system that represents aurally perceived music, through the use of written symbols.-History:...
. Such properties include rhythmically repeated syncopation
Syncopation
In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak but also powerful beats in a meter . These include a stress on a normally unstressed beat or a rest where one would normally be...
, quarter tone
Quarter tone
A quarter tone , is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale, an interval about half as wide as a semitone, which is half a whole tone....
s and natural tones.