TBH I've sung from a lot of music with incipits and have never seen
more
than one note: finding a sole example on Wikipedia from an author who
does
not appear to have a username isn't categorical!
However, Grove says "A 'melodic incipit' or 'musical incipit' is the
opening
fragment of music" and Oxford Music Online has "The preliminary staff
in
modern editions of early music, giving the original clefs and time and
key
signatures, the opening note or notes in their original notation, and occasionally the range of the part", so probably a sound update would
be to
replace "note" with "note or notes". I'll do this before pushing:
it's not
worth an updated patch.
It depends on the publisher, or maybe the editor. For example, "European Sacred Music" edited by Rutter and published by Oxford seems to consistently show just the first note of each part, omitting all prior rests, whereas the publisher Mapa Mundi always shows all rests and several notes, usually corresponding to at least one full bar, often more, of the following modern transcription. Trevor https://codereview.appspot.com/108270043/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
