Re: Renaissance 4/2 time signature

[karl]

Andrew Bernard:
> My first foray into setting a Renaissance keyboard piece into modern notation.

Ahh, welcome to the wouderful world of early music, and don't
hesitate to ask for more help.

> This is a keyboard piece by Claudio Merulo, published 1592.
> So it’s not mensural notation, but early Renaissance.

> Image attached.

That looks much like white mensural notation with slurs and bars added.
It couldn't be early "renaissance", I guess you ment early barock.

I found your source as:
 Canzoni d'Intavolatura d'Organo, a quattro voci, fatte alla francese, Book 1 
(1592)
 http://imslp.org/images/c/c9/PMLP426936-merulo_canzoni_tablatura_orgao.pdf

> In my option this piece is in 4/2 and I want to set it as such,
> and I want to retain the cut c time signature used by the original
> printer. That’s not a mensural time signature, so how does one do
> that in lilypond?

  \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(2 . 2)
  \time 4/2

See example in 

 http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/Josquin_des_Prez/per_illud_ave_prolatum/

Doc in:

 
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#index-timeSignatureFraction

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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