----- Original Message -----
From: "Benko Pál" <[email protected]>
To: "Phil Holmes" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Devel" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Stem direction wrong for white mensural music?
> music _prints_ do use downward stems, what's more, it's not at all
> systematical, see e.g. the example in
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1839#c13
> so we are left to apply manual \stemUp's and \stemDown's
> (I use a global \stemUp and hack closing longae to \stemDown).
Thanks. On the manuscripts I'm looking at, they're all up-stem. I'm
assuming the printed version is a later reworking of a manuscript? Do you
think the printers adopted more modern methods, or did downstems also
creep
into manuscript music?
They did, see e.g. codex Chigi from about 1500:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Chigi_codex.jpg
http://anaigeon.free.fr/mes_facs/fsbarb.jpg
I haven't found down-stems in Lucca 238 (mid-15th century).
The Eton choirbook (black mensural notation from the late 15th century)
has some down-stems:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Eton_Choirbook.jpg
p
Thanks. Interesting and appreciated.
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Phil Holmes
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