[linux-audio-user] ancient scores

[Jon Ellis]

To my completely (musically) untrained eye that looks like regular 
kanji / katakana marked up with mouth shapes and sustain! Like the 
bastard child of hangul, chinese and japanese!

Does anyone have any links to documentation on this notation?

j.

On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 07:16  PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Yesterday I received a query from a familiar of mine, who's working
> at The Russian State University for the Humanities.
>
> Recently he visited a concert of guys, who study at Moscow
> Conservatory, Department "World Musical Cultures", where ancient
> music of Japan, India and other countries was played. As he asked,
> how they managed to get scores, he was told, there are some that
> are "marked" (not a good term - it's just my bad English's fault)
> with ancient notes. Here is a screenshot:
> http://michael.rsuh.ru/japan.jpg
>
> So I pass his question: is entering or displaying of these notes
> supported by any of open source score editores? I know that here
> are some TiMidity guys who may know more about it.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> -- 
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> ALT Linux Documentation Team
> JID: avp at altlinux.org
>
>
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