Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

[Alexander Kobel]

Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote:
> Alexander Kobel wrote:
> > What's that thingy next to the very 
> > last note of this excerpt (the d' on "pro-mlu-VIL")?  Is this just a 
> > random blast of ink, or some cool typographic detail missed so far?
>
> It is a "nota caudata", common in chant (plainchant) notation, meaning
> various things, like a liquescent syllable, or used as a note concluding
> certain phrases of chant and so on. I learned to write these also in
> Lilypond now, so it is really a cool typographic detail which I will use in
> my edition of the Czech plainchant which I prepare now.

Oh, fancy, it's already supported!
How do you print these?  I could not find any reference in the Notation 
Reference or the Snippet Repository (I looked in the "Ancient" 
categories).  If one can do it, it should be mentioned somewhere for the 
next generations...


Cheers,
Alexander