Re: Typesetting renaissance music

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi,

just as a side-note: Research now agrees that contrary to common belief renaissance _scores_ (1) had full barlines, with notes reaching beyond these being split and connected using ties. I’ve not quite come to a conclusion if I want to adopt this practice (as e.g. the new series of Lasso complete works do) or if the ‘mensurstriche’ layout conveys a valuable meaning nevertheless, but fortunately Lilypond allows to do both without changing the actual music: for a mensurstriche layout, barlines within the staff are hidden; for a ‘partitur’ layout (2) they are showed and the Completion_heads_engraver is used instead of Note_head_engraver, eventually also Completion_rests_engraver instead of Rest_engraver.
A worthwhile alternative IMO.

HTH, Simon

(1) of which very few survive, since they were usually written on slates and erased after copying parts
(2) this German word for ‘score’ essentially means ‘divided into spaces’!

Am 14.05.2015 um 05:09 schrieb Murray-Luke Peard:

Hi everyone,

I've just started using Lilypond a week or so ago, and so far I'm very impressed! I've been able to produce really nice results in a relatively short time. 

My main interest is in typesetting renaissance choral music, and there's one thing I haven't been able to figure out how to do. Some singers (incl myself) prefer to have notes cross over bar lines when it's appropriate from the manuscript, and I've seen two ways to represent this. 

One is to use the Mensurstriche layout, which has bar lines between staves but not through them. My preferred option is to move the barline up or down if the note is low or high, and split it if the note is in the middle. 

I've been able to move the barline up and down with the following commands:

upBar = { \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(0.5 . 3) }

downBar = { \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-3 . -0.5) } 

And reset it to normal with

fullBar = { \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-2 . 2) }

But I can't figure out how to get the split bar line. Ideally, it would look something like :

topPart = { \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(2 . 3) }

bottomPart = [ \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-3 . -2) }

but both at the same time!

Can anyone suggest how I might achieve this? 

Cheers,

Murray-Luke

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