Tibetan Musical Notation

This manuscript leaf comes from the Tibetan Collection of the US Library of Congress, and contains a passage of music notated in an evocative script that certainty looks like music even if you can't construe the sounds. Tibetan books usually take the form of a stack of long narrow unbound leaves between two wooden boards tied together with a scarf. A musician playing from this would likely need an assistant to turn the pages, but that's not much different from a Western score. Other Tibetan libraries are the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India; the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center; and the Tibetan Collection at the University of Virginia.