Re: Tuplet number direction

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Thomas Morley" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 8:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Tuplet number direction
>
>
>> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On 15.04.2016 00:51, Thomas Morley wrote:
>>>> (1) The TupletNumbers are always inside the bow, I coded no
>>>> possibility to print the Number cutting the bow.
>>>> I maybe add it later.
>>>> (2) What to do at line-break?
>>>
>>> Wouldn’t it better do disallow line-breaks during tuplets
>>> (i.e. \override TupletBracket.breakable = ##f – if that has an
>>> effect), or at least ignore such situations for this particular style?
>>> Clearly, there are situations where it would be better or even
>>> necessary to break tuplets, but I don’t think such situations occur
>>> before 1900,
>>
>> Josquin des Prez?  I've sung some Missa from him with wildly augmented
>> triplets crossing a number of bars.  Timing them accurately took some
>> math because at that speed there was no natural flow any more really.
>>
>> That would be early 16th century.
>
> Wouldn't have been notated like that in those days - they would have
> used coloratio.

So?  Modern practices of printing Renaissance music are different from
contemporary practices.  They are still different from modern practices
of printing Classic music.

> So to notate it for singers today, you could do it any way that you
> choose to make it look sensible.

Which would usually involve triplet brackets rather than hacking this
into partial note values at measure boundaries.  Which is how it was
done in the score I have been singing this from.

-- 
David Kastrup