Dear Collected Wisdom, in several threads, Stewart, David Tayler, Jorge, et al nicely sorted out this topic (Re: French Style, and Re: A very basic question), concluding that a trill consists of appogiatura (coulé), which is necessary, trill (tremblement), which is desirable, and termination (cadence) in special cases.
However, the comma (curved line right to the letter) is without further elaboration explained as simple trill in the CNRS edition of Bocquet (Monique Rollin, Corpus des luthistes français, Oeuvres des Bocquet, 1972, p. xxxiii), i. e. without appogiatura. And it makes sense with the music by Mlle. Bocquet. Could it be that appogiatura is not as essential to the French trill as it previously may have seemed? -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
