Re: Rehearsal Marks

[Michael J. O'Donnell]

Until sometime in the Middle Ages, "I" & "J" were variant ways to write the same letter of the Latin alphabet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet#Medieval_and_later_developments

Mike O'D.

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:08:56 +0000
From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Rehearsal marks
To: Brett McCoy <address@hidden>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:34:14PM -0500, Brett McCoy wrote:
  

I've read in a few places -- including the Lilypond documentation --
that, traditionally, when using rehearsal marks in a score, the letter
I is skipped. Does anyone know why this is done?
    

I'm pretty certain it's because I is easy to confuse with J or L
or I (roman numeral), depending on the exact font used.


Either that, or some 18th century king was pissed off at the
letter because his ex-lover's name started with that letter, and
everybody respects the tradition banning the use of that letter.
:)

Cheers,
- Graham




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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:10:19 -0500
From: Brett McCoy <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Rehearsal marks
To: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
Cc: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
  

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:34:14PM -0500, Brett McCoy wrote:
    

I've read in a few places -- including the Lilypond documentation --
that, traditionally, when using rehearsal marks in a score, the letter
I is skipped. Does anyone know why this is done?
      

I'm pretty certain it's because I is easy to confuse with J or L
or I (roman numeral), depending on the exact font used.


Either that, or some 18th century king was pissed off at the
letter because his ex-lover's name started with that letter, and
everybody respects the tradition banning the use of that letter.
:)
    

I read in some cases J is may be skipped as well.

-- Brett
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