Re: 17th century English kbd ornaments

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 05:34 +0500, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> 
> Wouldn’t it be better to do these are actual ornaments instead of just
> markup? I say this because there is a page on the lilyond blog
> regarding this, but it is only partially complete. If we did them as
> ornaments the possibility would arise of being able to use them to set
> English Virginal Music which uses the slash and double slash,

those behave rather differently from ornaments, being as you say,
through the stem.

>  through the stem, extensively - although as folks have noted, nobody
> really knows what they mean.
> 
> 
> Since I am a harpsichord player I am one day going to do all the many
> varieties of the French keyboard ornaments, a rich and flowering
> garden, so I  have just now taken an interest in this thread.

You may like to look at Denemo's output, as it has a claveciniste menu
for French ornaments - it also generates coulès which, again, do not
have the normal attributes of ornaments, so you could get an idea of the
syntax needed for those too.

Richard
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> Andrew
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