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Re: Unknown final note shape / object. What it is?
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Owain Sutton |
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Re: Unknown final note shape / object. What it is? |
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Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:40:15 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On 21:32, Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Nils Gey wrote:
> I stumbled upon this picture of notation and I've never seen the final note
> (in each voice, the right page voices have a slightly different version)
> http://anaigeon.free.fr/mes_facs/fsjosq.jpg
>
> From the position it must be a longa, the fermata over it indictates the
> same. Best visible on the top left version is that there is indeed the
> right-handed stem from a longa at the end of this symbol.
>
> Has anyone seen this in a different context? I would like to see more
> pictures or versions.
>
> Btw. if you know any other strange or seldom used notation symbols please let
> me know :)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Nils
Probably just a scribal quirk - the incomplete illuminations give some idea of
how prestigious this volume was (or was intended to be). Which source is it?