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#124831 03/08/2004 4:14 PM
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Date: Tue Oct 1 02:56:05 EDT 2002
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--labanotation
labanotation (lah-buh-noh-TAY-shun) noun, also Labanotation

A system of notating details of a dance movement on a staff.

[After choreographer Rudolph Laban (1879-1958) who devised it.]

To see what a labanotation looks like, visit:
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~griesbec/LABANE.HTML



#124832 03/08/2004 10:42 PM
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so, once a piece of music has such notation, has it been Labanotized?



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Dear etaoin: Rock and roll with Dr. Scholl.



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