Re: Customised key signature for mensural music

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Brian Barker" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Customised key signature for mensural music


> At 12:20 10/08/2014 +0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > A piece of music in the Musica Transalpina from 1597 in the F clef in the 
> > key of F major has a key signature that has two B flats: one in the normal 
> > position and one above the stave lines.  I know how to do that, but it is 
> > also offset to the right, and with a smaller flat sign.  Does anyone know 
> > how this could be done?
>
> Are those two facets significant and by design, or are they - as perhaps 
> appears - simply unfortunate consequences of the way the original was 
> printed? Do you need to reproduce them, that is? After all, you are not 
> going to reproduce those disconnected and misaligned staff lines.
>
> Brian Barker


I don't believe it's accidental: every "upper" flat is approximately the 
same size and in the same place: eight of them on this song and the same 
thing on quite a number of others.

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Phil Holmes