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Laban glyphs

Open lucatoldo opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

Dear all, It would be very useful if the LabaNotation symbols that are available in Wikipedia.commons could also become part of Smufl. This could facilitate music conductor learning consistent movements (e.g. using the approach led by James Jordan called Laban Movement Score Analysis) but as well enable choreography and music to be jointly formalized.

Laban-median-forward-high Laban-diagonal-backward-deep-left Laban-vertical-high Laban-diagonal-backward-deep-right Laban-diagonal-backward-high-left Laban-diagonal-backward-high-right Laban-diagonal-forward-deep-left Laban-diagonal-forward-deep-right Laban-diagonal-forward-high-left Laban-diagonal-forward-high-right Laban-horizontal-right-forward Laban-center Laban-frontal-deep-left Laban-frontal-deep-right Laban-frontal-high-left Laban-frontal-high-right Laban-horizontal-left-backward Laban-lateral-left Laban-horizontal-left-forward Laban-lateral-right Laban-horizontal-right-backward Laban-sagittal-backward Laban-median-backward-deep Laban-sagittal-forward Laban-median-backward-high Laban-vertical-deep Laban-median-forward-deep

lucatoldo avatar May 26 '21 16:05 lucatoldo

Link to wikipedia page?

ecstrema avatar May 26 '21 17:05 ecstrema

There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanotation, but it does not enumerate the symbols you listed.

ecstrema avatar May 26 '21 17:05 ecstrema

They have been uploaded by Dr. Jeffrey Scott https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jeffrey_Scott_Longstaff and can be seen by looking at the following link https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Jeffrey_Scott_Longstaff Dr. Jeffrey Scott did his PhD at the Laban institute and is highly qualified, as you can see from his curriculum.

luto65 avatar May 26 '21 20:05 luto65

One can see them for example in the Encyclopedia Britannica at the following reference. Guest, Ann Hutchinson. "Labanotation". Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Sep. 2013, https://www.britannica.com/art/labanotation. Accessed 26 May 2021.

luto65 avatar May 26 '21 20:05 luto65

See also the following published paper, still from Dr. Jeffrey Scott Longstaff

Longstaff, Jeffrey Scott (2018) "Rudolf Laban's Dream: Re-envisioning and Re-scoring Ballet, Choreutics, and Simple Functional Movements with Vector Signs for Deflecting Diagonal Inclinations," Journal of Movement Arts Literacy: Vol. 4 : No. 1 , Article 2. Available at: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jmal/vol4/iss1/2

luto65 avatar May 26 '21 20:05 luto65

@lucatoldo or @luto65, are you able to provide a comprehensive list of the symbols and their names? Without their names we can't add them to SMuFL.

dspreadbury avatar Sep 14 '22 15:09 dspreadbury