Goal before Pascha: nail down the repeating sticheraric Mode 2 melodies and read through Petros Lampadarios’ compositions

2 years ago · 👍 half_elf_monk

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@eph - Unfortunately, I have no idea. There's a lot of unicode though, so ...maybe? · 4 months ago

@half_elf_monk, oh wow, those are the old notation! Hundreds of years ago, whole melodic phrases were abbreviated using those marks. I wonder if the new notation is digitized. · 6 months ago

@eph My brother in Christ, are these the symbols you're looking for? 𝀀 𝀁 𝀂 𝀃 𝀄 𝀅 𝀆 𝀇 𝀈 𝀉 𝀊 𝀋 𝀌 𝀍 𝀎 𝀏 ...and would that work in plaintext? It appears in amfora just fine. found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Musical_Symbols here... · 2 years ago

@half_elf_monk I think there are very few fonts that support the Unicode characters required for Byzantine notation, and I’m not sure if they’re even included in Unicode yet. I think there was a proposal in the early 2000s for their inclusion. · 2 years ago

@eph, I've gotten a few accents through vim ( :digraph gives a list of what ctrl+k + [keycombo] can produce. It'll make accented characters and what looks like kanji to me, but nothing as complex as byzantine notation. BUT: if I can see you posting emoji in my terminal browswer, why not some kind of other characters? · 2 years ago

@half_elf_monk, Pascha this year is May 5. I'm not sure why there aren't so many ecclesiastical resources on Gemini, I think it would be perfect for a low-overhead method of getting texts and hymnography. There's little support for musical notation, and Byzantine notation support in plain-text is a far-away dream 🥲. · 2 years ago

Godspeed. When is orthodox easter? Also, why aren't there more full texts of ecclesial things on gemini? · 2 years ago