Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

[Frauke Jurgensen]

Ah, thanks! That makes perfect sense. If I understand correctly, it would, however, mean inputting everything in halved note values? That might get messy, once ligatures are involved...

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 16.05.2015 um 16:38 schrieb Frauke Jurgensen:

Yes, some decades ago (i.e. when Apel was writing), it was common to transcribe mensural music at a value reduction of 4:1 (i.e. 3/4 for Circle); now, 3/2 is a more common transcription level, and most specialist performers prefer to read either from original note values (if transcribed), or from original notation, if the manuscript isn't filled with errors like the examples I'm currently dealing with. I'm working on a bigger project that may involve generating multiple versions in different types of notation from the same source file; from that point of view, it would be more convenient if the mensural sign was more closely attached to the meaning.

In case you are interested in barlines – which after all is authentic for ‘partitur’ scores – you might want to use \scaleDurations to get the right combination of mensural time signature and printed note values.

HTH, Simon