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Re: Clefs


From: Laurent Martelli
Subject: Re: Clefs
Date: 09 Nov 2000 11:13:45 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7

>>>>> "John" == John Sankey <address@hidden> writes:

  John> Could I suggest, Jan, that the clef syntax may be greatly
  John> simplified by using the original purpose of most of them - to
  John> mark the tonic line?

  John> For example, you can find a C clef in Couperin on any line of
  John> the staff, but they are all the same symbol. Same for the
  John> early mensural marks - the staff started with only one line
  John> and gradually increased over the centuries.

  John> So specifying the symbol and the vertical position separately
  John> might be a lot cleaner than the current system.

I fully agree. And this would prevent "shortcuts" that would behave
like today's implementation.

-- 
Laurent Martelli
address@hidden                        http://www.linuxfan.com/~laurent



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