Re: Clarification of Gregorian Chant terminology

[Francisco Vila]

2010/12/30 James Lowe <address@hidden>:
> Hello all you 'Ancient Music' specialists!
>
> I am currently re-organizing the Ancient Music section in the Notation 
> Reference which includes some standardization to bring things into line with 
> current documentation policy and other sections.
>
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> As I don't know that much about the terminology and only have google as my 
> reference I wondered if anyone can tell me if the term 'Augmentum dots' is a 
> proper term (rather than 'Morae') or just something that some decided to use 
> because it describes this notation?

I understand that Morae is a plural for 'Mora' in 'Punctum mora vocis'
which is the complete name of the dot.

> Likewise the term 'Gregorian Square Neume Ligatures', could I for instance 
> just call them 'Gregorian Square Neumes' or whatever the plural is?

Gregorian neumes are typeset as ligatures in a similar way as white
notation ligatures are, that's why the phrase contains the word
ligatures.  That's how I see it from my little knowledge of the
subject.

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