Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-31 Thread Peter Chubb
Shane == Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net writes: Shane According to the book Ornamentation in baroque and Shane post-baroque music it is an English sign (apparently many Shane traveling musicians from the continent picked up its use) that Shane can variously be interpreted as a mordent or

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-23 Thread M. E.
Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or how to produce something that looks

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The source is the Performers' Facsimiles edition of Dix Sonates by Godfrey Finger. May be a trill judging from the commentary in the Ornaments article in Grove's and the chart at the end of the article. But in that source and in The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, these paired lines are

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-23 Thread Shane Brandes
According to the book Ornamentation in baroque and post-baroque music it is an English sign (apparently many traveling musicians from the continent picked up its use) that can variously be interpreted as a mordent or trill so you will have to work out from context which sounds better for each

Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or how to produce something that looks like that in lilypond. I'm attaching a scan.

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 6:00 PM Subject: Baroque Articulation mark I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Laura I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray Laura facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either Laura what it means (so that I could translate it into an Laura equivalent modern articulation

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
Phil == Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or how to