Re: Baroque Articulation mark

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> The source is the Performers' Facsimiles edition of Dix Sonates by
>> Godfrey Finger.
> 
> May be a trill judging from the commentary in the "Ornaments"
> article in Grove's and the chart at the end of the article.  But in
> that source and in "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music," these
> paired lines are described as an English ornament (and in Grove's,
> Dutch and northern German) from the late 16th and early 17th century
> and found in keyboard music.

I see something similar in the MGG, Vol. 9, p. 1426 (Sachteil).
Fr. Geminiani (1751) describes it as `a beat'.  Let's assume that the
double slash is available as a lilypond macro called \beat, then these
two are described as being equivalent:

  g4\beat

  g64[( fis g fis g fis g fis g fis g])


     Werner