Re: petrucci-f3 clef

[Juergen Reuter]

Hi, Pal!

Nice to see you back on this list!  Mmmh, do you know when Petrucci 
engraved this piece of music?  Petrucci is known to have started with 
beautiful printings around 1600.  At that time, he demonstrated what is 
possible with printing as compared to manual writing, because he wanted to 
compete with manual writings and had to convince musicians and 
publishers/copyers of what is technical possible.

However later, due to lack of money of his customers, he had to simplify 
his process of printing.  Maybe this simplification also affected the 
choice of clefs?  I do not see any other reason why Petrucci should have 
perfectly balanced all clefs, but not the f3/f4 clef, other than maybe he 
was lacking a sufficient number of printing types.  As far as I know, many 
pages of a book were printed in parallel (rather than one page after the 
next one), for whatever reason, such that a huge number of identical types 
had to be used at the same time.  So, maybe he just run out of a 
particular printing type such as the f4 clef and chose the f3 clef 
instead (or the other way around)?

In doubt, we should decide in favour of the beauty of printing.  What do 
you think, does the overall appearance of a piece of music improve with 
the change that you propose?

Greetings,
Juergen


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Pal Benko wrote:

> 2006-09-26  Pal Benko  <address@hidden>
>
>       * scm/parser-clef.scm: add petrucci-f3 and -f4 clefs
>       (the latter is the same as petrucci-f which is kept for compatibility)
>
> Petrucci uses the exact same drawing for the f3 clef as for f4, just a
> line lower
> (at least in the Missae Obrecht).
>
> pal
>
>
>
> Index: parser-clef.scm
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/lilypond/lilypond/scm/parser-clef.scm,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -r1.2 parser-clef.scm
> --- parser-clef.scm     6 Jan 2006 09:13:22 -0000       1.2
> +++ parser-clef.scm     26 Sep 2006 18:39:15 -0000
> @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
>     ("petrucci-c3" . ("clefs.petrucci.c3" 0 0))
>     ("petrucci-c4" . ("clefs.petrucci.c4" 2 0))
>     ("petrucci-c5" . ("clefs.petrucci.c5" 4 0))
> +    ("petrucci-f3" . ("clefs.petrucci.f" 0 0))
> +    ("petrucci-f4" . ("clefs.petrucci.f" 2 0))
>     ("petrucci-f" . ("clefs.petrucci.f" 2 0))
>     ("petrucci-g" . ("clefs.petrucci.g" -2 0))))
>
>
>
>
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