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melekket
musical notation
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use in Ethiopian chant
- In Ethiopian chant
…the 16th century is called melekket and consists of characters from the ancient Ethiopian language, Geʿez, in which each sign stands for a syllable of text. The semantic meaning of the syllable and its musical meaning generally bear no relationship; the musical meaning is known only through the oral tradition.…
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