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A vertical three-column staff read from the bottom up.
Also known as: Kinetography Laban, Laban notation, Movement notation, Vertical staff with blocks
Labanotation writes movement on a vertical staff read upward, with columns for each side of the body. The shape of a symbol gives direction, its shading gives level, and its length gives duration — three independent facts in one mark.
Denotes a system for recording human movement on a vertical staff divided into columns for the parts of the body.
Contexts: Music
Encodes three things in each symbol simultaneously: shape for direction, shading for level, and length for duration.
Contexts: Music
Is read from the bottom of the page upward, in the direction the dancer travels through time, rather than left to right.
Contexts: Music
Is used to copyright choreography and to reconstruct works from written score, which is what distinguishes it from a memory aid.
Contexts: Music
A tall vertical staff of three columns each side of a centre line, filled with elongated rectangles, parallelograms and pointed shapes of varying shading and length.