Toward a first-year project.

[eirias]

Haven't updated this in ages; stopped doing much reading for a couple months and now that I've started again I really ought to try updating. It's a useful thing.

For now, though, I have a question. If you were going to invent a new system of music different from Western music, how would you do it? What kinds of regularities would you include?

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[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Oh, it wasn't counting syllables that was the bit that left me totally confused. It was the thing where I asked the native Japanese speaker with a lot of formal poetry knowledge "so, I hear Japanese is syllabic meter, what's up with that?" and he said something like "uh...it's not what people think it is with 5-7-5 or whatever...uh...it's complicated."