Re: musica ficta, or how to put small accidentals on top of the notes

[Mats Bengtsson]

One way to handle these accidentals is to use the support for
cautionary accidentals in LilyPond. Currently, these can be
typeset either as an ordinary accidental within parenthesis or
as a smaller size accidental. See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#accidental-cautionary.ly
for an example. I seem to remember that there was a discussion on the
mailing list some years ago where someone planned to introduce yet
another style option, namely to print them on top of the note as
you propose. However, it seems that this feature was never implemented.

   /Mats

Nancho Alvarez wrote:
> Some time ago, somebody asked to the list how to transcribe the so 
> called "musica ficta".
> In the Renaissance era, some of the accidental were not put on the 
> score, although they were supposed to be sung.
> Modern editors put a small accidental on top of the note.
> See a good description in the message 
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2001-09/msg00026.html
>
> Mats gave us a solution in the message
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002-09/msg00161.html
> but as it was pointed out, this solution does not transpose nor is 
> exported to the MIDI file.
> Somebody even suggested a possible syntax.
>
> In the documentation I do not see any reference to "musica ficta", is it 
> already implemented? will it be in the future?
> I think it is an important feature.
>
> Thank you very much
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