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From: | Trevor |
Subject: | Re: "Hymn template" snippet |
Date: | Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:40:36 +0000 |
User-agent: | eM_Client/7.2.50008.0 |
------ Original Message ------ From: "Dan Eble" <dan@lyric.works> To: "lilypond-devel" <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> Sent: 08/08/2022 22:46:32 Subject: "Hymn template" snippet
"Hymn template" https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=703 I don't see any way to find the author of a snippet. I'd like to ask the author of this snippet about the reason for using \breathe and \bar "||". Are they intended to communicate two different things, or was it merely a stylistic decision to use \bar "||" at the end of a system and \breathe in the middle? I would like to revise it to use \caesura but stay faithful to the original intent. Thanks, Dan
Hi DanI'm pretty sure I was the author of this snippet. It is used in NR 2.1.7 (without comment about the comma).
A comma is the standard way of writing a breathing point in vocal music. It is used extensively in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard. Gould writes on page 436 in the Vocal Music chapter: "When a note should be sung for its full duration, with extra time for the breath, add a comma above the stave - this adds a short pause to the bar in which it occurs." No mention here of a caesura. She also says on page 187, "The comma rather than the caesura is now more commonly used" (for allotting extra time for a short break in sound.)
If you change this snippet to use a caesura and render it as a comma in this section of the NR ("Chants, Psalms and Hymns") that would be OK I suppose (although \breathe seems the appropriate LP command), but "//" is definitely a no-no. I've never seen that in a hymnal.
Trevor
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