Dear Justin,

A similar question has recently been asked in "
Tibetan-English_Dictionary-User_group@yahoogroups.com" under the title
"Melody notation, old and new". One of the references in response was to
the Schoyen collection (http://www.schoyencollection.com/music.htm)
particularly http://www.schoyencollection.com/music.htm#7.30

I hope that this is helpful.

with best wishes,

'o-Dzin


2009/3/8 justinasia <justinasia@...>

> Hi guys
> I'm trying to trace the origin of melodic notation in Japan. I'm looking
> for Tibetan musical notation. When the melody is
> represented on the text, by curved lines. Does anyone have any
> pictures of this? May be known as yang yig. I was hoping for old documents.
> I have found some pictures of pages on the internet, from 19th century. I
> was hoping for older texts, to get more of an idea how it looked before it
> came to Japan. I have searched through the International Dunhuang Project
> website, but have found nothing. I could be using the wrong search terms
> perhaps - they have a lot of pages there! It would be really great to see
> notation from their collection, and I am really hoping that there is some,
> if the system is that old.
>
> If anyone has any pictures, or knows where I can find them online, I would
> really appreciate to hear about it. Also new ones
> would be appreciated such as I have seen monks writing by hand on
> their texts. Also if anyone knows the history of the notation system,
> I would really love to hear about it. Was this system passed to China
> and used in their chant texts? Did the system originate in Tibet or
> elsewhere, (such as China or India)?
>
> Best wishes
> Justin
>
>
>



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