Re: discordatura

[Graham Percival]

On 2-Nov-04, at 12:23 AM, Jean-marc LEGRAND wrote:
> I'm typesetting a piece from Tobias Humes' Musical Humors for the 
> viol. Some pieces are tuned "as
> the Bandora", which means that the common way to tune a viol has to be 
> changed. In the classical way
> , the special tuning is indicated before the first "clef", as a chord 
> of blacks noteheads (without
> notebar). How can I reproduce that in my score, please ?

I do it this way (for viola):

\clef alto
\relative c {
\tiny
\override Stem #'transparent = ##t
<b g' d' a'>4
\normalsize
}
\override Stem #'transparent = ##f
\bar "||"

\relative c' {  main piece }


This doesn't place the tuning before the clef, key, and time 
signatures, but you
could mimic that by hiding those items and putting them later.  It 
seems more
work that it's worth, though -- this notation is (IMO) clear enough.

Cheers,
- Graham