Hi all,
isn't sometimes a stem with a very short flag in the
opposite direction used for the longa?
Regards,
Stephan
Am 9 Jun 2004 um 0:11 hat Stewart McCoy geschrieben:
> Dear Rainer,
>
> You're quite right, of course. Milan uses a long for the final note of
> his pieces. Whether he means the last chord to be held for the full
> length of a long, or it is a way of showing the end of the piece and
> you let the notes ring on for as long as necessary, is neither here
> nor there. He uses a long. However, he notates rhythm with standard
> staff notation rhythms (crotchets, quavers, etc.), not flags. As far
> as I know, there isn't a tablature flag for a long.
>
> The older the music, the more likely it is to find long note values,
> so I've just had a look at Bossinensis' songs. Where the singer's
> staff notation part ends with a long, the lutenist's tablature has a
> pause sign instead. I've not looked very far, but my guess is that
> longs were generally confined to final bars, where the exact length of
> the note was not very important.
>
> All the best,
>
> Stewart.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rainer aus dem Spring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Tablature rhythm signs
>
>
> > Stewart McCoy wrote:
> >
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> > ...
> > >
> > > The note known as a "long" would not normally feature in
> tablature,
> > > because tablature was nearly always barred. If a very long note
> was
> > > required ("long" or otherwise), it would be notated as lots of
> > > shorter notes tied together from one bar to the next.
> >
> > Milan uses the longa and it looks - like a longa :)
> >
> > Rainer adS
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