> ===========Timothy S. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "hefan". But I forget.
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It has been a while. Even with a perfectly fonetic aelfabet the
haepless victims of elementary school teaching have to read many
letters or even many words before they know the meaning, if any.
The first note in a score is much less ambiguous, IMHO. I also
was thinking of it as a spelling rather than a language situation
until you required that I clarify my thinking. :-)
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I've never seen a longa (except the lilypond sample
one). Am I right
in assuming that it's double the length of a breve? And is
"maxima" double
that?
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I don't know about the maxima's time value, if any, because it
came to be used for the last note, so it was l_o_n_g. But the
longa and breve were divided in threes, (by default) not twos,
and a circle with a dot in it was placed where we put a time
signature. If the dot was absent and there was a semicircle the
divisions were by twos. That is where the C for 4/4 time came
from, not the letter C. I don't recall which was the circle and
which the dot. But that's the long and the short of it.
BTW:
Someone wanted diamond shaped noteheads centered on the stems.
IMHO they are easier to read that way, even if there is more than
one note on the stem. I would have no problem with a sequence of
diamond shaped notes like this, in fact, I would prefer it more
distinctive because it would therefore be more readable. (That is
not a *personal* preference. It is a rational one.) It would be
clearer for contemporary and more authentic for old music. The
only caveat is to avoid a note adjacent to the centered note by
putting the centered note on the right side instead.
|h h h h-------
h| | | |
| | |h |h-------
| | | h|
|
And this is standard for harmonics for non-fretted strings:
|
n| = small note (true pitch)
|
|
h = note that would be there if the string were
stopped.
(diamond shaped)
It is interesting that the stem must always be up.
I think that this would keep both harmonic writers and early
music writers happy. Maybe nothing would. :-)
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There are two words for this -- "Micro$oft", and
"Dilberted". :)
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Two ancient ones: SNAFU and FUBAR ;-)
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