"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes: > ----- 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". > > I would assume that's simply chant.
As opposed to page 10, it is interspersed with syllable-timed music, and it needs to obey the total note value in order to keep in synch with instruments. Also it's not a single singer but multiple voices. So it's rather chanty than chant. > Furthermore, note that, simply because a printer does something in > 1610 doesn't make it correct notation in 2014. We did sing from modern transcriptions using the same style of notation. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
