Re: Bar lines in mensural notation (request for interpretation)

2023-04-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] This is what I've drawn out: When notating a chant, anyone who > places full-height single or double lines anywhere but the end of a > phrase is a sheep, a klutz, and an ignoramus. :-) > My main doubt is whether this restriction is limited to church > music. I hope to understand whethe

Bar lines in mensural notation (request for interpretation)

2023-04-18 Thread Dan Eble
Everything I know about 16th-Century Italian I learned from 20th-Century Spanish. I hope that someone here is able and willing to check my guesses about this. The following text seems to follow an introduction to mensural rests, and it surrounds a figure of a single bar line and a double bar l