Re: Tuplet number direction

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Thomas Morley" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: Tuplet number direction


> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 15.04.2016 00:51, Thomas Morley wrote:
> > > (1) The TupletNumbers are always inside the bow, I coded no
> > > possibility to print the Number cutting the bow.
> > > I maybe add it later.
> > > (2) What to do at line-break?
> >
> > Wouldn’t it better do disallow line-breaks during tuplets
> > (i.e. \override TupletBracket.breakable = ##f – if that has an
> > effect), or at least ignore such situations for this particular style?
> > Clearly, there are situations where it would be better or even
> > necessary to break tuplets, but I don’t think such situations occur
> > before 1900,
>
> Josquin des Prez?  I've sung some Missa from him with wildly augmented
> triplets crossing a number of bars.  Timing them accurately took some
> math because at that speed there was no natural flow any more really.
>
> That would be early 16th century.
>
> --
> David Kastrup


Wouldn't have been notated like that in those days - they would have used 
coloratio.  So to notate it for singers today, you could do it any way that 
you choose to make it look sensible.

--
Phil Holmes