lilypond-user
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)


From: David Raleigh Arnold
Subject: Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 09:10:19 -0400
User-agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.32-4-686-bigmem; KDE/4.4.4; i686; ; )

On Thursday 02 September 2010 20:17:01 David Rogers wrote:
> * David Raleigh Arnold <address@hidden> [2010-09-02 19:36]:
> >On Thursday 02 September 2010 12:23:58 David Rogers wrote:
> >> Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible
> >> meaning could be "lines resembling the ruling in a ledger book,
> >> i.e. square with the page and evenly spaced relative to each
> >> other".
> >
> >But that resembles staff lines, not leger lines.
> 
> True enough - but none of the other possibilities, whether for ledger
> or légère, is any more correct or convincing.
> 
> Another possibility: the use of the word "line" may be spurious, and
> "ledger" used in the sense of "a wooden beam installed for the
> purpose of creating a ledge" may be the direct ancestor of the
> musical term - "a ledger" and _not_ "a ledger line".
> 
> But who knows?
> And to answer that rhetorical question: Nobody, and certainly not
> either of us. :)

You continue to ignore the evident fact that the English "ledger"
and French "leger" are not the same word. Since the spelling
"leger" was in use to indicate the slight lines, and since
"leger" was not used for a beam or large book, the conclusion
must be that "leger lines" is correct and "ledger lines" is using
the wrong word. *You* must prove that "leger" and "ledger" are
variations of the same word, and they obviously are not, because
accountants do not use the spelling "leger". Most of your
authorities had no idea either that there was such a French word
as "leger", or its meaning, or had enough acquaintance with music
to relate it to the Italian "leggiero". That's a pretty sorry
performance, don't you think? Regards, daveA      

-- 
For beginners: very easy guitar music, solos, duets, exercises. Early
intermediate guitar solos. One best scale set for all guitarists.
http://www.openguitar.com/scalescomparison.html ::: plus new and
better chord and arpeggio exercises.  http://www.openguitar.com 



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]