Re: White Notation used by Charpentier

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 21 December 2011 15:14, Klaus Föhl <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> These days I have seen Charpentier music using some white notation for shorter
> durations, in a nutshell minima noteheads with quaver flags. Wikipedia file
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elevatio.png is showing an(other) example.
> What is the proper naming (I have been told "white notation" or "weiße
> Notation", however I associate this with earlier mensural notation)? What is 
> the
> best/easiest way to get this written with Lilypond?

People were speaking about this "Charpentier notation" on the French
user mailing lists earlier this month.
http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/Fonte-quot-Charpentier-quot-td7060560.html

You can tell LilyPond not to use black note heads
(credit Bertrand Bordage):

\override Score.NoteHead #'duration-log =
  #(lambda (grob)
     (min 1 (note-head::calc-duration-log grob)))

Cheers,
Xavier

PS: Pinging every French user involved in this discussion, in case they
would like to add something.

-- 
Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>