Re: Clarification of Gregorian Chant terminology

[Trevor Daniels]

Francisco Vila wrote Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:58 PM
>

> 2010/12/30 James Lowe <address@hidden>:
>
> > I am currently re-organizing the Ancient Music section in the 
> > Notation Reference which includes some standardization to bring 
> > things into line with current documentation policy and other 
> > sections.
>
> > As I don't know that much about the terminology and only have 
> > google as my reference I wondered if anyone can tell me if the 
> > term 'Augmentum dots' is a proper term (rather than 'Morae') or 
> > just something that some decided to use because it describes this 
> > notation?
>
> I understand that Morae is a plural for 'Mora' in 'Punctum mora 
> vocis'
> which is the complete name of the dot.

Yes, I think a punctum mora is a dot after the note,
and this is also called an augmentum.  There is also an
augmentum duplex which is two dots (one above the
other) following a note.  I don't think LilyPond
has implemented the latter.  I don't know this stuff,
I just looked at http://home.gna.org/gregorio/gregorioxml/details

> > Likewise the term 'Gregorian Square Neume Ligatures', could I for 
> > instance just call them 'Gregorian Square Neumes' or whatever the 
> > plural is?
>
> Gregorian neumes are typeset as ligatures in a similar way as 
> white
> notation ligatures are, that's why the phrase contains the word
> ligatures.

Yes, this section is mainly about ligatures, so that
word should be retained in the heading.

Trevor