According to the book "Ornamentation in baroque and post-baroque music" it is an English sign (apparently many traveling musicians from the continent picked up its use) that can variously be interpreted as a mordent or trill so you will have to work out from context which sounds better for each instance you see it. Although it might be Herr Finger (He was a German in the employ of James II) was consistent in his usage. So as with all such ornament go by what sounds best.
Shane On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> wrote: > > I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, > and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that > I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or > how to produce something that looks like that in lilypond. I'm > attaching a scan. Any help would be appreciated. > > The source is the Performers' Facsimiles edition of Dix Sonates by > Godfrey Finger. > > > > -- > Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) > (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 > http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org > > This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for > a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our > permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a > dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote > it, that's all we wanted to do. > > Woody Guthrie > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
