Tonsilabo

A tonsilabo is a syllable describing a tone of a certain relative frequency. Tonsilabos are used for typing music, as an alternative to music notation By design.

History

The concept of tonsilabos, as based on the music scale systems of Bharata 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 his friend 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 solemisation, 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 tones and natural tones.

Terminology

In English, the Esperanto tonsilabo terminology is used as defined in the Fundamento Tonsilaba.

References

Tonsilabo computer program home page
Comprehensive explanation of tonsilabos (in Esperanto)

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