Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 2010/09

From: Roger Hewitt <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partita ContraBass in BFlat
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:01:40 -0400

The prefices basically follow the latin sequence, but at first can't seem t=
o decide whether they are cardinal or ordinal and whether to be abrreviated=
or not. The ending is always -et, but the first few are (as always) oddit=
ies:
1 solo
2 duo or du-
3 trio
4 quart-
5 quint-
6 sext-
7 sept-
8 oct-
9 non-
10 dec-
11 undec-
12 dodec-
13 tredec-
14 quattuordec-
15 quin(qua)dec-
16 sexdec-
17 sept(en)dec-
18 octodec-
19 novendec- (or novemdec-)
20 vigesim-
30 trigesim-

and so on. Mahler 8 is a millesimet!

The series is not at all consistent and italian names follow slightly diffe=
rent prefices and is a little more consistent.

I've no doubt many scholars will disagree with some of the above, but short=
of a "1984"-style revamp of the language the terms are set.

Dictionaries often stop defining with octet or, in some cases, nonet, so th=
e rest are somewhat less definitive.

Roger H

--- On Sat, 25/9/10, Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com> wrote:

> From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partita ContraBass in BFlat
> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
> Date: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 15:09
> That does sound better.
> =

> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Roger Hewitt <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
> wrote:
> > Surely it would be undecet and dodecet (not extra t)
> where the c is hard rather than soft despite the following
> e. =A0After all it is nonet not nontet.
> > Roger H
> >
> > --- On Sat, 25/9/10, Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partita ContraBass in
> BFlat
> >> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
> >> Date: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 11:49
> >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM,
> >> Keith Bowen <keith.bowen@-----.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> > We are also doing an arrangement of the
> Masonic
> >> Funeral Music, for wind 11et
> >>
> >> I was wondering what to call an 11et:
> >>
> >> The best I've come up with is undectet.
> >>
> >> 12et would be dodectet.
> >>
> >> http://phrontistery.info/numbers.html
> >>
> >> I don't hear those words much.
> >>
> >> 11et and 12et sound just about as good.
> >>
> >> -Jennifer
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