----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org>
To: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>
Cc: "Son_V" <vincenzo.a...@gmail.com>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Humble question, text at the second note in a ligature
"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes:
----- Original Message -----
Well, that makes no sense at all. You can't sing two syllables to a
single note.
Well, when singing Monteverdi's Vespers, I remember having to fit about
a dozen of syllables to some single notes.
Take a look at
<URL:http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/311853>, page 10. Or
probably more convincingly interspersed with "normal" syllable
distributions several times on page 11.
I don't personally see examples of two syllables per note there: there
are a few where the words could be hyphenated better, that's all I can
see.
Page 11. There is a single note for all of "Donec ponem inimicos".
Similarly "Tecum principium in die virtutis". Again with "in
splendoribus sanctorum ex utero ante luciferum".
--
David Kastrup
I would assume that's simply chant. Don't forget that in music from the
1600 era, printers were pretty keen to minimise repetition: so if there are
a load of syllables on one note, I assume they saved reprinting the note.
See also the ij on the same page, which means "sing the same words again".
Furthermore, note that, simply because a printer does something in 1610
doesn't make it correct notation in 2014. For example, in that copy you
cite, they seem to have forgotten the bar lines.
:-)
--
Phil Holmes
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