On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Just a note about the breve symbol in the "feta" font. I saw a not
> > that said that mostly the breve only appeared in pre-1600 music. I have a
> > book published in 1979 which contains a breve, and it looks like a semibreve
> > (whole note), but with two little vertical bars on each side of it (4 bars
> > total) which are approximately the same height as the circle (when it's on the
> > line), and double the height (when it's between lines). Since square and
> > diamond shaped notes are "out", and round ones are "in", I thought this might
> > be useful.
>
> Yes, I've seen several versions of the breve symbol, both the
> two you mention, |=| and ||O||, as well as something like |OO|.
> I don't know if any of them is more standard than the others.
> Of course, the best solution would be to add all versions to the
> font and implement a property that selects which one to use.
> By the way, has anyone seen other versions of the longa symbol?
If the |OO| one actually has overlapping rings, then I suspect that
it's a method of indicating that both voices (eg. Soprano and Alto) both sing
the same note. Then again, maybe I've only seen one type of breve, and the
other thing is a new one on me :).
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