Re: Adds incipit section to NR (issue 108270043 by address@hidden)

[tdanielsmusic]

> TBH I've sung from a lot of music with incipits and have never seen
more
> than one note: finding a sole example on Wikipedia from an author who
does
> not appear to have a username isn't categorical!

> However, Grove says "A 'melodic incipit' or 'musical incipit' is the
opening
> fragment of music" and Oxford Music Online has "The preliminary staff
in
> modern editions of early music, giving the original clefs and time and
key
> signatures, the opening note or notes in their original notation, and
> occasionally the range of the part", so probably a sound update would
be to
> replace "note" with "note or notes".  I'll do this before pushing:
it's not
> worth an updated patch.

It depends on the publisher, or maybe the editor.  For example,
"European Sacred Music" edited by Rutter and published by Oxford
seems to consistently show just the first note of each part, omitting
all prior rests, whereas the publisher Mapa Mundi always shows all
rests and several notes, usually corresponding to at least one full
bar, often more, of the following modern transcription.

Trevor


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