Re: VMs: Voynechese as musical notation

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Suzy,

At 13:49 11/01/2004 -0500, Suzy Bjerke wrote:
> OK, guys, UNCLE. I have given up on the VMS as musical notation.
>
> elovgt wrote:  there is certainly a way to turn the VM into a symphony.
>
> So I may do this in the distant future. Or maybe an oratorio when you all 
> find a translation and I can use it for the words. And, YES, let's use the 
> pictures for a rock opera!

Just to depress you further, someone has (as with everything to do with the 
VMs) already done this before - in this case Hanspeter Kyburz and his 
orchestral work "The Voynich Cipher Manuscript". And yes, he appears to 
have used the VMs transcription to drive his composition. :-o

        http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/Jan01/kyburz.htm

Allegedly evocative and haunting - and not so much "G G G Eb" as "q o t e e 
d y". :-)

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.... 


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