20-09-2016, 08:18 PM
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Sorry that it's written in german.
It describes how to transform the voynich-Manuskript into music.
If you want to listen to it, you can either download pages 29-28 as mp3
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or the whole transformed document as midi-file
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For listening to the midi, you need some midi-player. I used timidity:
timidity -K -20 voynich-music.mid
Enjoy.
Cheers, Peter
Being a music lover, I've looked pretty hard for signs of music in the manuscript and found it surprisingly devoid of musical references, even though they are common to medieval manuscripts (even those without a musical theme).
But... I still like what you've done because text (any text) can be "visualized" as music (not surprisingly, since both music and speech are related and can both be conveyed through the human voice) and it's pretty interesting to listen to this and "see" the text through the ears instead of the eyes.
What would be even more interesting would be to do this with similar content from similarly themed manuscripts (plants, medicine, astrology, etc.) in a variety of languages and see if there are commonalities that emerge in rhythm and pitch. It would not be a trivial thing to do, it would require time, effort, and skill, but it would be fascinating and might open channels of historical research that haven't been fully explored.