Tone word
The tone word , also called Latonization , is a tone naming system invented in 1892 by music teacher Carl Eitz for music lessons, with which he wanted to clarify the chromatic , diatonic and enharmonic relationships between the tones and make them intuitively tangible.
| Common tone names | his | cisis | disis | ice | fisis | gisis | aisis | his | |||||
| c | cis des |
d | dis it |
e | f | fis ges |
G | gis as |
a | ais b |
H | c | |
| deses | eses | fes | geses | ases | heses | ces | deses | ||||||
| Consonants assigned to semitones | b | r | t | m | G | s | p | l | d | f | k | n | b |
| Vowels assigned to whole tones | i | O | u | a | e | i | |||||||
| Toneword designations | bo | do | ga | sa | le | fi | no | bo | |||||
| bi | ro ri |
to | mu mo |
gu | see below | pa pu |
la | de there |
fe | ki ke |
ni | bi | |
| be | ti | go | so | lu | fa | no | be | ||||||
According to the table above, a consonant is assigned to each semitone . The five vowels a, e, i, o, u are added to identify the whole tones (starting with the consonant l) . The assignment is chosen in such a way that there is always a change to the next vowel in whole tone steps. In semitone steps, a distinction is made between diatonic and chromatic progressions. In the diatonic semitone step, the vowel remains the same (e.g. ef (gu-su) or f-ges (su-pu)), while the vowel changes with chromatic progression (e.g. e-eis (gu-sa) or f-f sharp (su-pa)). Enharmonically mistaken tones have the same consonant, but differ in terms of the vowels, which takes account of the comma shift that occurs in pure tuning .
The following verse serves as a memory aid for the order of the consonants (starting at bi (c)):
B ei r real T un m ach g Anze S oh.
P robiere l ustig, d ie F reud k OMMT n oh.
The consonants of the tone names are the first letters of the words in the verse.
By using the tone syllables, sight-singing should be easier and correct intonation should be promoted.
See also
Remarks
- ↑ The terms semitone and whole tone are not used here in the usual main meaning as tone intervals , but as a designation for single tones, whereby semitone means a single tone of the twelve-step chromatic scale, whole tone means a single tone of the diatonic root series .
Web links
- la.to.ni. Homepage of the association for sound naming after Carl Eitz