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== | ==History of Earth#10 music== | ||
===Classical music=== | ===Classical music=== | ||
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Due to the influence of Nystrom, hexadecimal (called nystromal in this universe, to distinguish it from "tonal" referring to music) is used as an official number base across the larger cities in Northern Europe, the Northwestern European Union, and some formerly colonial cities in Asia. Nystromal is also used and accepted in most dual-mode calculators and is even used and accepted in many large research journals. | Due to the influence of Nystrom, hexadecimal (called nystromal in this universe, to distinguish it from "tonal" referring to music) is used as an official number base across the larger cities in Northern Europe, the Northwestern European Union, and some formerly colonial cities in Asia. Nystromal is also used and accepted in most dual-mode calculators and is even used and accepted in many large research journals. | ||
==Music theory== | ==Music theory== | ||
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The pitched percussion section contains, minimally, 1 set of 10 timpani, and 1 metallophone. | The pitched percussion section contains, minimally, 1 set of 10 timpani, and 1 metallophone. | ||
== | ==Music== | ||
[[Media:Introduction and Waltz.mp3|Introduction and Waltz]], a short piece by Thomas Cunning, in the neopentatonicist style (dated to about 1820) | |||
== Non-musical worldbuilding == | |||
===People with an Earth#12 equivalent=== | ===Sociopolitical structure of this world=== | ||
'''''IMPORTANT NOTE:''' Anything shown here is meant for this alternate history project, and are not influenced by past, current, or future world affairs.'' | |||
[[File:Earth-10 Europe v2.png|right|thumb|Earth#10 Europe. Made with https://www.mapchart.net/europe.html]] | |||
Most importantly, there was only one world war, due to von Stauffenberg successfully killing Hitler. This caused the world in Earth#10 to be much more peaceful than it is today, especially with more advances in art. | |||
There is a Northwestern European Union consisting of the Netherlands (called Holland in-universe), France, and the United Kingdom. Belgium did not gain independence from Holland. | |||
The map of Europe is similar to inter-War Europe, with the exceptions of Luxembourg and Belgium never gaining independence. | |||
The People's Republic of China never forms, due to a successful Mao Zedong assassination attempt. China in this world is the ROC. | |||
Decolonization of Africa was never attempted (so Zimbabwe is still called Rhodesia) though the decolonization of Asia was more successful than it is in our world. However, colonial influence led to a new "Eurasian" culture of art and music. To this day, colonial languages in Asia are still widely learned: French in Lata (formerly French Indochina), Dutch in Indonesia, and English in India and Singapore. | |||
The only other differences in territories other than Europe are that Lata is a single country, and that China and Taiwan are united under the ROC. | |||
===Distribution of the languages across the world=== | |||
The most spoken languages in this world are French, Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Dutch, Ewe, Russian, and Indonesian. | |||
The official languages of the USA are English, French, German, Dutch, and Mandarin Chinese. However, Louisiana has Cajun as its sole official language. Ewe is a trade language in the USA and is a commonly spoken language in the more urban cities. | |||
Canada (called Greater Quebec in-universe) is a Francophone country. The official languages of Australia and New Zealand are now English and Dutch. | |||
Zwischensprache is a minority language in England, Holland, and France. Scots is not a vulnerable language due to Scotland, a puppet state of the United Kingdom, having Scots as its sole official language. | |||
English does not remain a global language, with a more-or-less equal distribution of Mandarin Chinese, English, French, and Dutch-language (and to a lesser extent Indonesian, Tamil, German, and Russian) websites. Mandarin Chinese, in particular, is a commonly-learned language due to its influence in the Earth#10 scientific community. | |||
===Languages of this world that are not in our world=== | |||
===Zwischensprache (debatable)=== | |||
Called variously ''Interlangue'', ''Tussentaal'', ''the Betweenspeak'', and ''Zwischensprache'' (the name used in this article), it originally was formed as a pidgin language in the 19th to 20th centuries due to frequent contact of people of France, Holland, and the United Kingdom. It has several names due to there not being a standardized grammar or lexicon for the language yet, however, there were a few attempts to do so. It has also been theorized that this forms a dialect continuum with the French and Dutch dialects forming the ends thereof, with the British dialect somewhat in the middle. | |||
===Cajun=== | |||
Cajun (formerly Louisiana French) diverged far enough from French that it can be considered a separate language. It is mainly spoken in Louisiana with other Cajun-speaking communities in South America. | |||
===Scots=== | |||
Unlike in Earth#12, Scots has a standardized orthography and is a recognized official language of Scotland, and the Scottish community in Earth#10. | |||
===Lenka Kutu=== | |||
This is the equivalent of Toki Pona in this universe. It has exactly 256 words, equally distributed between Germanic, Romance, Austronesian, and Sino-Tibetan, with some words from other language families. It is also the official language of the New Pythagorean movement since its adoption in 2011. | |||
===Notable people=== | |||
====People with an Earth#12 equivalent==== | |||
''(Earth#12 equivalents are in brackets.)'' | ''(Earth#12 equivalents are in brackets.)'' | ||
* Johan/John '''Nystrom''', inventor, engineer, and author, unlike in Earth#12, he is also a composer, popularised 16ed3 (John Nystrom) | * Johan/John '''Nystrom''', inventor, engineer, and author, unlike in Earth#12, he is also a composer, popularised 16ed3 (John Nystrom) | ||
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* Himmel R. '''Friedman''', American xenharmonic theorist (CompactStar) | * Himmel R. '''Friedman''', American xenharmonic theorist (CompactStar) | ||
* Hackett '''Cole''', 21st century British music theorist, and unlike in Earth#12 does not work in xenharmonics at all (2^67-1 alias Cole) | * Hackett '''Cole''', 21st century British music theorist, and unlike in Earth#12 does not work in xenharmonics at all (2^67-1 alias Cole) | ||
===People without an Earth#12 equivalent=== | ====People without an Earth#12 equivalent==== | ||
* Thomas '''Cunning''', early 19th century English composer | * Thomas '''Cunning''', early 19th century English composer | ||
* Christoffel '''Nielsen''', Danish inventor, invented the nielsenphone family | * Christoffel '''Nielsen''', Danish inventor, invented the nielsenphone family | ||
* Temitope '''Ayokunle''', Malian balafon player, popularised an arrangement of two balafons to produce 10edo, picked up by Carl Orff in the West | * Temitope '''Ayokunle''', Malian balafon player, popularised an arrangement of two balafons to produce 10edo, picked up by Carl Orff in the West | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||