Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

[Christian M. Cepel]

Neumes!!!  That was the word I was looking for.  Thank you!  I couldn't for the life of me remember.  Mine was a stupid question.

Since you're both well versed on music history (in the western tradition anyways), you'll know why I'm having trouble trying to persuade our first daughter (assuming we have one) 'Talea'.  Of course if we had quintuplets and two of them were siamese, I spoze we could name the second one 'calor' and the pair 'isorhythmic motet'.

Ironically, she's not having any of it.  She likes the name Talea, but that's as far as she'll go :)

//Christian



Phil Taylor wrote:

Christian M. Cepel wrote:

 

Are shapenotes Renaissance?  I thought they went back to plainchant
notation.  (this is probably why I only barely passed Music history last
sem and prolly won't this sem)
   

Well, square- and diamond-shaped notes are certainly used in Gregorian
notation, but this notation also groups notes together into neumes,
so it's a little more complicated than just setting the note shapes.
(It can be done automatically though, as BarFly does.)
Shape notes have probably been used in many systems throughout history,
the best-known being that used in the Sacred Harp, where the shape
used for the note head indicates its scale position, making it easier
for semi-literate singers to sight-read.  Again, this could be done
automatically as a program option, which would not require any change
to the abc.
MusicXML lets you specify note shapes on an individual basis, which
would not be a good idea in abc as it would make the abc unreadable.
Phil Taylor

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