* David Raleigh Arnold <d...@openguitar.com> [2010-09-02 08:27]:
There it is. Since he was the only one who actually did any work on it, the way the other self styled authorities should have and *didn't*, one has to satisfy Grove. ;-) The French leger for light *or slight* satisfies me. They are "slight lines" aren't they? They aren't lines of a big heavy old book or lines of accounts are they? I doubt "ledger", beam, and "ledger", big book, are the same word either. The wooden ledger is probably a beam that makes a ledge. IMO people who wrote music were unlikely to have even known that word. How many know what a lag bolt or lag screw are? (lai Report Card: Grove: C The rest: F
It would be good to recognize that there is no correct etymological derivation available without further research in original documents from the era when the word was introduced, and until that new research is done, all proposed spellings and all proposed meanings will have to be accepted equally and without prejudice. The fact that one derivation & corresponding spelling satisfies you, and another derivation & spelling satisfies others, simply shows that a truly convincing conclusion is not currently possible. (The required information may very well have died with the person who coined this usage, and so we may have to live with two spellings forever.) Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible meaning could be "lines resembling the ruling in a ledger book, i.e. square with the page and evenly spaced relative to each other". But I just made that up, and it's no better than any of the others. (I also can't see that it's much _worse_ than any of the others.) -- Thanks David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
