On Thursday 02 September 2010 20:17:01 David Rogers wrote: > * David Raleigh Arnold <[email protected]> [2010-09-02 19:36]: > >On Thursday 02 September 2010 12:23:58 David Rogers wrote: > >> Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible > >> meaning could be "lines resembling the ruling in a ledger book, > >> i.e. square with the page and evenly spaced relative to each > >> other". > > > >But that resembles staff lines, not leger lines. > > True enough - but none of the other possibilities, whether for ledger > or légère, is any more correct or convincing. > > Another possibility: the use of the word "line" may be spurious, and > "ledger" used in the sense of "a wooden beam installed for the > purpose of creating a ledge" may be the direct ancestor of the > musical term - "a ledger" and _not_ "a ledger line". > > But who knows? > And to answer that rhetorical question: Nobody, and certainly not > either of us. :)
You continue to ignore the evident fact that the English "ledger" and French "leger" are not the same word. Since the spelling "leger" was in use to indicate the slight lines, and since "leger" was not used for a beam or large book, the conclusion must be that "leger lines" is correct and "ledger lines" is using the wrong word. *You* must prove that "leger" and "ledger" are variations of the same word, and they obviously are not, because accountants do not use the spelling "leger". Most of your authorities had no idea either that there was such a French word as "leger", or its meaning, or had enough acquaintance with music to relate it to the Italian "leggiero". That's a pretty sorry performance, don't you think? Regards, daveA -- For beginners: very easy guitar music, solos, duets, exercises. Early intermediate guitar solos. One best scale set for all guitarists. http://www.openguitar.com/scalescomparison.html ::: plus new and better chord and arpeggio exercises. http://www.openguitar.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
