Elie Roux wrote: > David Stone a écrit : >> Looking at the caecilia project's web page >> http://www.caecilia-project.org/taxonomy/term/1 it seems that their >> requirements are satisfied by the gabc header fields, except for >> wanting to know the name of a hymn melody and its meter. I didn't >> know that chant hymn melodies had names (though modern melodies do, at >> least in English). By `meter' I guess they mean 8888 or the like (4 >> lines of 8 syllables); is this useful for chant hymns, for which few >> meters are used? > > I must admit it's the first time I see this 'meter' thing... Can you get > in touch with the caecilia project to be sure of what it means? > > Thank you!
"Te lucis ante terminum" would have meter 8.8.8.8, since each stanza has four lines of eight syllables. "Jesu corona virginum" is also 8.8.8.8 , so any tune suited for one could also be sung with the other. "Ut queant laxis" would have meter 11.11.11.5 . This is a common notation in vernacular hymn books, at least in England and America, indicating the number of syllables for each line. This allows organists to find alternate tunes compatible with one hymn, and hymn books often contain indexes grouping the hymns by their meter numbers, to facilitate this comparison. --RC _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
