Frank Nordberg wrote: > > The longa was used well into the 16th Century at least. The > brevis is occasionally found even today. > It is quite funny that the longest note in modern notation is called "brevis" :-)
> > which is currently not supported by abc at all. > > (I have to admit that my mensural notation skills is at about the same > level as my Spanish skills: I can read it if I really have to, but I'd > rather not. But again, mensural notation is not the point here.) > For the curious, I have just stumbled across an overview of mensural notation: http://www-midischool.cwru.edu/duffin/Notation/NotationManual.pdf > > In most modern edition it is printed as a double note with a > > fermata. Is that not sufficient? > > It isn't. > I conclude that abc (or at least abctab2ps) should support longae. > > > > What would the music symbol be for a "quadruple note" in > > music and in tablature? > > http://www.musicaviva.com/encyclopedia/display.tpl?phrase=Note%20values > Thanks, that's very useful! I feel however, that a sqare note might be hard to read. I remember singing a Buxtehude mass were all "breves" were printed as sqare notes, which was barely readable and increased the practice time unnecessarily. Thus, would the following representation be acceptable? |O| /| | /| | music tablature Maybe I should wait with the implementation until some abc user encounters a real world piece that has a longa in its middle. (Laura, please raise your hand :-) In tablature this is not a real issue, because all historic source use shorter (sic!) note values than modern notation. Eg. a whole note (semibrevis) was typically printed as an eighth note in 16c tablature prints or manuscripts. Christoph Dalitz To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
