minstrel: machaut songs

[Greg Lindahl]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 06:50:59PM -0800, toni seales wrote:

> I have "Singing early Music" for pronunciation tips,
> but frankly have a little difficulty deciphering it,
> with my minimal formal music education.   

It's not your music education which trips you up; musicians don't
usually learn anything about pronouncing phonetic symbols. I used
to date a linguist, but she didn't sing...

There's a similar sort of notation in dance, called Labanotation.
I've never met anyone who could read it, but it supposedly is
extremely accurate at concisely depicting exactly where your arms and
legs go.

-- Gregory Blount