Dear Sister,
Actually I know that the great virtue of Beneventan manuscripts is the fact that they agree perfectly to 99% among them, according to melody. Bv33 is more accurate in rhythm, while Bv34 in diastematic references (C&F lines are specified here). Personally, I think that we can consider as the guideline for rhythmic indications Saint-Gall manuscripts, and choose Bv34 for first for Beneventan family (less neumes, 2 lines). This is just an option to start.
This sounds good! Where can these manusripts be found? Also just a thought: you already sent me an exhaustive analysis of the St Gall and Laon neumes, I think it would be good to start such a work for Beneventan notation (without the fancy aggregated neumes), in order to see if the input syntax can truely describe everything... In Paléographie Musicale XV (http://archive.org/details/palographiemusic15macq) such a work is well started, but I'm not sure it contains all possible neumes in all possible manuscripts... Do you know if such a thing exists?
No one forbid us in the future to create an encoding possibility for every manuscript on earth! :)
For sure! But it will be easier if we have an exhaustive list from the beginning :)
Thank you, -- Elie _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
