Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

[Phil Holmes]

My understanding is that the Mensural time signatures are simply mapped to a 
convenient, similar modern signature.  Thus what we now refer to a "common 
time" (4/4) maps to a broken circle, which it resembles.  Since there are no 
bar lines in mensural music, the actual time signature is pretty much 
irrelevant when setting music.  FWIW, Apel says that ancient "circle" time 
(tempus perfectum) maps to modern 3/4 time.

Under 1.1.3, "Clef", the Notation Reference tells us that "Clef names 
containing non-alphabetic characters must be enclosed in quotes".

--
Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Frauke Jurgensen
To: LilyPond User Group
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 12:45 PM
Subject: Mensural notation: 2 questions


Hello all,


I suspect I'm just being a bit thick...typesetting some mensural notation, 
and having an issue with the mensural signs/time sigs. It looks like the 
definitions of these in terms of modern time signatures are in half values; 
e.g., "Circle" maps on to 3/2, when it should map on to 3/1.


My second issue is that lilypond initially couldn't seem to find any of the 
various mensural clefs that have a number on the end. I managed to make it 
work by enclosing the clef name in double quotes, but am not sure why that 
worked.


Cheers,

Frauke




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