Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensural notation

2001-03-07 Thread Patrick Andries
- Message d'origine - De : "Lukas Pietsch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Andries enquired: 2) U+1D1C0 seems to have an incorrect names (e.g. "fusa black"). This is character (SEMIBREVIS BLACK + STEM + FLAG-2) I believe, this is black SEMI-FUSA. [snip] I believe the confusion

Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensural notation

2001-03-07 Thread Lukas Pietsch
All notes could have been given post-1420 names given the fact that the white notes appear only after 1420... Well, not really, because there are quite a few symbols (black notes of semibreve and above) which occur only in the pre-1420 notation. So the series of "black" note names would have a

Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensural notation

2001-03-07 Thread Patrick Andries
- Message d'origine - De : "Lukas Pietsch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] All notes could have been given post-1420 names given the fact that the white notes appear only after 1420... Well, not really, because there are quite a few symbols (black notes of semibreve and above) which occur only

Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensural notation

2001-03-07 Thread Lukas Pietsch
In my last posting I wrote: I also notice that the "black maxima" seems to be missing. Since we have the "black" and "white" series, we ought to have them both complete, right? "black longa" can be thougt of as unified with Gregorian 1d1d3 "virga", and "black brevis" with generic 1d147

Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensural notation

2001-03-06 Thread Patrick Andries
I have a few questions about the Renaissance musical symbols found inits proposed 3.1 block. 1) I do not see why the notes U+1D1B6-U+1D1C0 are divided in three different groups, one of them grouping miscellaneous symbols. 2) U+1D1C0 seems to havean incorrect names (e.g. "fusa black").

Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensural notation

2001-03-06 Thread Patrick T. Rourke
Quick tangential correction to that table that Patrick Andries supplied a link to: it seems to imply that the Greek accents were musical notation; they were not. For ancient Greek musical notation see M.L. West, *Ancient Greek Music*, pp. 254-276, especially the table on p. 256. Patrick Rourke