Re: Incipit in Modern Editions

[Aaron Dalton]

Laura Conrad wrote:
>>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Dalton <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Aaron> I'm doing a modern edition of some 16th-century madrigals and the 
> format
>     Aaron> requires that each staff have the original clef, mensuration, and 
> first
>     Aaron> few notes in a little incipit before the modern transcription.  I 
> see
>     Aaron> that Lilypond has all the glyphs I need, but I'm unsure how to go 
> about
>     Aaron> adding this incipit.  Is it even possible?
> 
> I have incipits in a lot of my editions.  For years I struggled to put
> them into the same score as the part they went with, and then
> struggled again to update them when I the lilypond version changed.
> Now I have a separate lilypond file (cantus-incipit.ly is the incipit
> for cantus.ly) and so I don't need to deal with printing new clefs and
> key signatures and making the bar numbers come out right.  
> 
> You can see examples of what I do in any of my Dowland pieces:
> 
>     <http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#4>
> 
> 

Thank you, Laura!  I hadn't even gotten to the bar numbers problem yet =)

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