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Topic: Solresol


  
  Solresol language
Solresol is an artificial language, devised by a Frenchman, Jean François Sudre[?], beginning in 1817.
Solresol enjoyed a brief spell of popularity, reaching its pinnacle with Boleslas Gajewski[?]'s 1902 publication of Grammaire du Solresol.
Despite this, there is still a small community of Solresol enthusiasts[?] scattered across the world, better able to communicate with one another through the electronic medium of the Internet than they might have in days past.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Solresol.html   (184 words)

  
  Solresol language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Solresol is an artificial language, devised by a Frenchman, Jean François Sudre, beginning in 1817.
Solresol enjoyed a brief spell of popularity, reaching its pinnacle with Boleslas Gajewski's 1902 publication of Grammaire du Solresol.
Solresol did have to face the difficulty that in France, sign languages for deaf people were not allowed until over a century later (congress of Milan 1880 - law Fabius 1991).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solresol   (428 words)

  
 Solresol language and stenographic script
Solresol was the first artificial language to be taken seriously as an interlanguage.
Solresol has seven syllables based on the Western musical scale: do re mi fa so la si, though you don't have to be familiar with music in order to learn it.
The total number of Solresol words is 2,660: 7 words with one syllable; 49 with two syllables; 336 with three syllables and 2.268 with four syllables;
www.omniglot.com /writing/solresol.htm   (257 words)

  
 Solresol - Langmaker
Solresol is an international auxiliary language designed by Jean Francois Sudre in 1827.
The teaching of sign languages to the deaf mute was forbidden between 1880 and 1991 in France, contributing to Solresol's descent into obscurity.
Stephen Rice writes, "Solresol is important to the history of constructed languages (particularly interlanguages) on several grounds: it was the first artificial language to get beyond the project stage and to be taken seriously as an interlanguage, and it also pioneered certain ideas that have only recently been rediscovered.
www.langmaker.com /db/Solresol   (659 words)

  
 Solresol: The universal musical language. | MetaFilter
And Solresol is one of the more interesting failures in there, especially as it ties into the larger impulse towards artificial language creation and the intersection of same with vaguely utopian, one-world impulses.
Solresol's biggest stumbling block, as I see it, lies in its need for a 'classification of ideas' from which the lexicon is generated.
So while solresol is a great historical artifact, and the original usage of "universal" may be merely naive, trying to promote it in 2002 as "universal" is borderline offensive to non-Westerners.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/22240   (2930 words)

  
 Solresol language : Solresol
It is based on musical notes, and can thus be whistled or played on a musical instrument as well as spoken.
Words are divided into categories of meaning, based on their first syllable, or note.
After its short time in the spotlight, it has faded into obscurity in the face of more successful languages such as Esperanto.
www.fastload.org /so/Solresol.html   (232 words)

  
 Solresol - FT 145   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In practice Solresol is a language in the key of C. Imagine sitting down at a piano and only hitting the white keys randomly.
Solresol is, at heart, the philanthropic effort of an idealist – and the Brotherhood of Mankind does not issue quarterly dividend checks.
A Societé Pour la Propagation de la Langue Universelle Solresol was founded in Paris and the use of Solresol grew steadily in the decades after Sudre’s death, with thousands of speakers in France becoming familiar with its use.
www.forteantimes.com /articles/145_solresol.shtml   (2840 words)

  
 [Wikipedia-l] New Wikipedia langage solresol
Today your restrictive conviction concerning > solresol is for me an indicator more of the first as of the second: > Soleresol was a great invention.
For a solresol encyclopedia, you need enough people who know solresol, or who are willing to learn it, that will be interested in reading it, and hopefully also in helping create it.
In short: if you think there are people who will want to use this, and want to help you with it, those are your editors and readers, even if they don't know it yet.
mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-October/035365.html   (1225 words)

  
 Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Solresol
In practice Solresol is a language in the key of C. Imagine sitting down at a piano and only hitting the white keys randomly.
Again, the reason Solresol doesn’t usually sound harsh or dissonant is because it uses a major scale with no semitones, not because it’s in C. You could just as easily sing it in any other key — and unless you have perfect pitch or a tuning fork, you probably will.
[…] Than Solresol: During the first half of the 19th century, a half-century before L.L. Zamenhof invented Esperanto, the universal language movement achieved its apotheosis in Solresol, the first artificial language ever to develop beyond mere concept.
www.kirchersociety.org /blog/?p=625   (997 words)

  
 Melomane-Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Solresol is bound to receive the same reaction, as it features more inventive and unusual pop with a uniquely cool slant.
Strangely, when you look up 'Solresol' on dictionary.com it is solely defined as being 'an artificial language' with no mention of Frenchman Jean Francois Sudre, the creator of the universal language based on music by that name.
It is this language that is the subject of the title track and reflected throughout the album with songs that use the subject as metaphor such as 'Complicated Melody', 'The Fighting Guitars', and 'A Capella'.
www.melomane.org /press.php   (1027 words)

  
 GRAMMAR OF SOLRESOL
Thus by means of Solresol, the blind will be able to exchange ideas with foreign deaf-mutes and vice-versa, so everyone will be able to answer them and be understood by them.
Solresol offers an advantage not found in any other language: it expresses the opposite meaning by reversing the word, syllable by syllable.
Important Note: -When speaking Solresol, one should take great care to pause after every word; this slight pause is necessary to separate the words, so that the listener does not become confused but understands easily.
www.ptialaska.net /~srice/solresol/sorsoeng.htm   (3107 words)

  
 THE SOLRESOL PAGE
Solresol was developed by Jean François Sudre (1787-1864) beginning in 1817 and running past his death (courtesy of posthumous publication) to 1866.
Solresol is important to the history of constructed languages (particularly interlanguages) on several grounds: it was the first artificial language to get beyond the project stage and to be taken seriously as an interlanguage, and it also pioneered certain ideas that have only recently been rediscovered.
Comments on Solresol, including a defence of its importance.
www.ptialaska.net /~srice/solresol/intro.htm   (758 words)

  
 Solresol Revival Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Solresol (also called langue musicale universale (Universal Musical Language) was invented by Jean Francois Sudre (1798-1866), a French music teacher, early in the 19th century.
Many people have contacted me about Solresol, and it seems that there may be enough people around to revive the language.
There are quite a number of enthusiastic people who are attempting to resurrect SolReSol.
www.ifost.org.au /~gregb/solresol   (240 words)

  
 The Null Device: comments on "Solresol"
The bizarre story of Solresol, a musical language, designed by a 19th-century French inventor, in which sequences of notes represent words.
After its inventor passed away in 1862 or so, and Solresol soon vanished into obscurity, unable to compete against more user-friendly languages such as Volapuk and Esperanto.
However, a revival is under way, led by various cryptographers, musicologists and miscellaneous enthusiasts across the world, with a website (unreachable at time of writing), proposed automated translation programs, and seven Solresol characters are apparently in the Unicode spec (though I couldn't find them).
dev.null.org /cgi-bin/cmt.cgi?it=200212131746_solresol&mc=3d531bd1df   (270 words)

  
 Textile Art > Solresol (accessory bag) - TextileArtists.org
A portion of the felted sweater became a Solresol accessory bag for the larger bag.
The beautiful Solresol language consists of seven syllables-the notes of the scale (do-re-mi-fa-so-la-si (we changed it to 'ti').
Sudre also devised a means for translating ROYGBIV, the colors of the rainbow, with Solresol syllables so that every tapestry, painting, splash of color takes on literal meaning.
www.textileartists.org /Gal209_Solresol_accessory_bag_.asp   (414 words)

  
 Solresol, the universal language - Jarrod Trainque   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His creation, called Solresol saw some popularity in the late 19th century, having been translated into many languages.
It is also the first and only musically-based interlanguage–or at least, the only one to make any headway.
Here’s an english translation of Professor Boleslas Gajewski’s book Solresol or the Universal Language of Francois Sudre to get you started.
www.trainque.com /index.php/2004/04/06/solresol-the-universal-language   (247 words)

  
 cognoshanty: Sol Re Sol
Before any of these meta languages, there was Solresol, an early attempt by a Frenchman named Jean François Sudre at a universal language based on the musical tones in a major scale.
In addition to being a musical language, Solresol could be also written or signed.
So G# (called "si" in Solfeggio) does not technically exist in Solresol--assuming Do=C. The reason Do is usually C is because the C Major scale has no sharps or flats and is the starting point in the circle of fifths.
www.psychoastronomy.org /erik/mt/archives/000734.html   (1676 words)

  
 SolReSol Associates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This list is extracted from people who have emailed me. Their presence here means nothing, but it may be convenient to know of some other SolReSol-ists for some reason.
Jeff Skinner has been interested in SolReSol for several years now, and is patiently searching for more information.
The Artificial Languages Laboratory is not a person but has a great deal of useful information on constructed languages in general.
www.ifost.org.au /~gregb/solresol/people.html   (247 words)

  
 Re: Solresol, Jean François Sudre (1817)
The Following is an excerpt from "A Synopsis of Solresol" by Stephen L. Rice.
Solresol has only seven "segmental phonemes": do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si.
The Following is from "Comments on Solresol, including a defence of its importance"
bowks.net /worldlang/aux/p_JeanFrancoisSudre.html   (520 words)

  
 Textile Art > Solresol (felted/embroidered bag) - TextileArtists.org
I knitted a lovely sweater in gorgeous, rainbow colors then felted it and cut cut it into smaller pieces to create this lovely handstitched, embroidered,embellished over-the-shoulder bag in Solresol which is a universal language created by Jean Francois Sudre.
You can communicate in Solresol via a sequence of colors.
Several messages are hidden in the colors of this Solresol bag.
www.textileartists.org /Gal205_Solresol_felted_embroidered_bag_.asp   (384 words)

  
 [Wikipedia-l] New Wikipedia langage solresol
> > Next problem: > > Different sources of knowledge have a extremly difficult nearly impossible access for normal people: > > As I did begin to publish solresol in different languages I did constate that the (complete material of gajewsky!) material that I did have was not the best.
But the book of solresol was a timid effort of a widowed woman to try to make a little money with the invention of her man after he was dead.
I suppose, she did print only a minimal quantity.
mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-October/035348.html   (1185 words)

  
 Melomane: Music
Reviewer: ALL MUSIC GUIDE Only a handful of artists can match the ability shown throughout Melomane's Solresol to bring tired images back to life, not exactly by pepping them up, but rather by exposing shadows within them that have never quite been noticed before.
Reviewer: TASTES LIKE CHICKEN When I first put Melomane¹s new sophomore release, Solresol (Vermillion Music), into my CD player, my good friend Latta de Saint was in the room.
Reviewer: VILLAGE VOICE As leader of the six-piece "chamber pop" band Melomane (French for "lover of melody," roughly), musical wunderkind Pierre de Gaillande has a certain way of handling musicians who forget to play their parts during rehearsal.
www.melomane.org /HTML/ReviewE.html   (2288 words)

  
 CD Baby: MELOMANE: Solresol
He is joined by an amazing amalgam of NYC musicians including Quentin Jennings (Dylans), Daria Klotz (God is My Co-Pilot, Moonlighters), Kenny Savelson (Foetus, C Gibbs), Frank Heer (Huggy Bear), and Catherine McCray (T Griffin Coraline, Patti Smith.)
Solresol is Melomane's second album and pushes the infectious, melodic, melancholy pop-rock of the first album to greater heights of sonic texture, power, and dark beauty.
Click here to write a review about this CD!
www.cdbaby.com /cd/melomane2   (191 words)

  
 Melomane - Solresol: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Melomane - Solresol: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
Only a handful of artists can match the ability shown throughout Melomane [+]'s Solresol [+] to bring tired images back to life, not exactly by pepping them up, but rather by exposing shadows within them that have never quite been noticed before.
All Music Guide is a registered Trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
www.music.com /release/solresol/1   (148 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 12.322: Solresol Audio Files, Haitian Interdentals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question.
I've tried to locate that through some websites of the artificial language movement, but could not find it.
Any observations and/or references on this would be most welcome.
www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/12/12-322.html   (210 words)

  
 The language "solresol"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The English translation of the Grammar of SOLRESOL included the annexed dictionaries is not my work.
The initial page is under copyright and I will respect it.
The symbol for a way of life without loser!
www.uniovi.es /solresol/main/rdd_e.html   (97 words)

  
 Solresol Music CDs at Songsearch.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Solresol Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles
Try the new search options on the left navigation bar including the new Category / Genre search.
You can also look through our entire catalog of over 800,000 titles alphabetically by artist name or album title.
www.songsearch.com /title/s/solresol.html?media_list=cd   (47 words)

  
 Noemata Palindrome Collection
Francois Sudre's language solresol base words on do-re-mi etc syllables - and reversing sylls in a word also reverses the meaning of it!
Karim Eljot badger at noemata dot net 3 Dec 01
But eventually, the fun is just to make them.
noemata.net /pal/-action=search&lang=solresol.htm   (151 words)

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