Moss is a

musical language Musical languages are constructed languages based on musical sounds, which tend to incorporate articulation. Unlike tonal languages, focused on stress, and whistled languages, focused on pitch bends, musical languages distinguish pitches or rhy ...

Jackson Moore Jackson Moore is an alto saxophonist and composer living in New York. Career When he was 17, Moore studied with Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton in Connecticut. Between 1997 and 2001, Moore toured with Braxton and participated in the developm ...

. It has a

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

based on elementary melodic distinctions, and a simple lexicon and grammar inspired by

pidgin A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from s ...

s. Moore teaches Moss at the unaccredited Bruce High Quality Foundation University.

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Main SiteArticle on Moss (in Swedish)
Musical languages Constructed languages