Andrew Bernard: > My first foray into setting a Renaissance keyboard piece into modern notation.
Ahh, welcome to the wouderful world of early music, and don't hesitate to ask for more help. > This is a keyboard piece by Claudio Merulo, published 1592. > So it’s not mensural notation, but early Renaissance. > Image attached. That looks much like white mensural notation with slurs and bars added. It couldn't be early "renaissance", I guess you ment early barock. I found your source as: Canzoni d'Intavolatura d'Organo, a quattro voci, fatte alla francese, Book 1 (1592) http://imslp.org/images/c/c9/PMLP426936-merulo_canzoni_tablatura_orgao.pdf > In my option this piece is in 4/2 and I want to set it as such, > and I want to retain the cut c time signature used by the original > printer. That’s not a mensural time signature, so how does one do > that in lilypond? \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(2 . 2) \time 4/2 See example in http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/Josquin_des_Prez/per_illud_ave_prolatum/ Doc in: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#index-timeSignatureFraction Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
