Hi Owen, Owen Lamb <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. márc. 19., Szo, 7:38): > > Hi Benkő, > > On 3/17/22 10:05, Benkő Pál wrote: > > re the longest rests: > 1. a perfect longa rest and a maxima rest are not the same; > 2. a perfect longa rest should take three spaces (like current > emmentaler rests.M3mensural), not four (as, I fear, the bravura > mensuralRestLongaPerfecta implies) > 3. a maxima rest consists of two (or three) longa rests, similar to > rests.M3neomensural, so much that theoretically one can't tell a > maxima rest from two (three) longa rests. renaissance version of > multimeasure rests use groups of longa rests at different staff > positions, like > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ockeghem_Prolationum_Kyrie.jpg/220px-Ockeghem_Prolationum_Kyrie.jpg > > OK. Then I think rests.M3neomensural should be given the SMuFL name > neomensuralRestMaxima, and shouldn't be an alternate of anything. (It seems > like a bad idea that both the longa perfecta and the maxima are labeled with > the M3 duration in LilyPond, when in fact they aren't interchangeable...)
I agree with the naming; I'm confused about potential implications of usage. > I can't check right now, but I think LilyPond doesn't use longa glyphs > in ligatures: longae are drawn by adding stems to brevis glyphs. > > Terminology gets a bit muddled around here. To clarify, are you talking about > the glyph-on-glyph ligatures found throughout the SMuFL specification, or the > note-on-note ligatures characteristic of mensural notation? the latter. I haven't realized the ambiguity (the existence of ligatura variants of clefs should have made me think a bit though). thanks again, Pal
