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In article <3ktn0a$reo@epx.cis.umn.edu>,
miga0003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Larisa Migachyov) writes:
 
>Whoever knows anything about this, please post.  I'm very interested in
>this as well.
>
>-Larisa 
>
 
There's a short passage in the "Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language":
This remarkable language was the invention of a French music master,
Jean Francois Sudre, at the beginning of the 19th century. Solresol,
or 'Langue Musicale Universelle', was based on the principle that
the tones of music as named in the seven-note diatonic scale (do, re,
mi, fa, so, la, si) could be used as the elemental syllables of a
universal language. ...
 
Hope this helps for a start,
Manfred
 
>Donald Uitvlugt (duitvl43@news.calvin.edu) wrote:
>
>
>: I'm looking for information on (an perhaps a grammar?) of the artificial
>: language *solresol*.  It was invented in the nineteenth century, I
>: believe, using the tones of the scale as "letters" -- so the language
>: could be not only spoken, but sung or played on a musical instrument.
>
>: Any help would be appreciated, but please reply by e-mail because I don't
>: read this group as often as I should.
>
>: Thanks in advance!
>
>: DJU
>: --
>: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>: Donald J. Uitvlugt                              duitvl43@ursa.calvin.edu
>
>: For the Snark *was* a Boojum, you see.
