> if it helps to confirm that you are right, I might add my own experience > with mensural sources. Composers/writers seem to literally avoid dotted > notes in ligatures except (a) at the end of the ligature, or (b) on top > of the first note of an obliqua, or (c) both. (a) and (b) are frequent, > and there are numerous examples. There are some for (c), e.g. the Eton > Choirbook that Pál quoted, or Apel, page 471.
yes; generally there's seldom need to dot a long note, regardless of being in or outside a ligature. > Sometimes, (d) a dotted first note of a non-obliqua ligature can be > found with the dot on the right of the note. This is usually an > ascending ligatura cum opposita proprietate (as in Pál's examples, or > Apel, p. 181, or p. 138 for a semi-coloured one). (btw in the Chigi example there's a dotted first breve in the penultimate staff of the right side.) > I have never seen this > with a descending ligature, and I would be interested if you found an > example. seems to be a busy weekend, but I hope I can get to it. > I don't know any sources that comply with Apel's dot-above rule, but > then again, Apel probably saw more sources than I ever will... or me, too. and I learnt mensural notation solely from Apel. > Sometimes I have been confused by a punctus divisionis placed in the > middle above a ligature, but of course that's something different. wow, I have never seen such a thing! could you give an example? p _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
