On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 00:11 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Richard, > > As a harpsichordist, let me clarify, The snippet is one way to render > it graphically. > > The sign is known as a coulé in French, but the Germans used the same > sign and called it Schleifer (there's another meaning to Schleifer but > lets not turn this into a treatise!). It's not a 'light arpeggio' as > the LSR snippet claims. A coulé indicates to join the notes indicated > a third apart with the intermediary note in a run, and the whole chord > arpeggiated, or shaded as harpsichordists say, sometimes or sometimes > not, depending on taste (le bon goût Couperin always mentions). > > There are a dozen other signs for coulé that I have seen. The slash > is quite common. But often its nice and curvy, as per baroque taste. > This is before the age of industrial standards and ISO norms. :-) > > If you are engraving coulés I wager you are going to need pincé and > all the usual suspects as well!
Yes, I don't know whether using mordents etc will be sufficient for this job, or whether new glyphs will be needed. Has LilyPond used for typesetting the French clavecinistes does anyone know? I didn't manage to track down the list of glyphs available (it's in the documentation somewhere) but I don't think they include the various 18th c ornaments. Richard > > Andrew > > > > > > Richard Shann > > Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:34 PM > > I am typesetting some music that needs a slash between the notes of > > a > > chord, as in the attached image. > > Any suggestions how to achieve this? (I'm not sure what it is > > called, or > > quite what the execution is either, but that is another story...) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
