Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

[Joram Berger]

Hi Lukas,

once again, I am no expert on ancient notation. So I don't know whether the
length of the stems in your renaissance style are required to be exactly as long
as they are now. They roughly end in the middle of a staff space for notes on
this position and on a staff line for notes on a staff line – but not quite.
My aesthetic feeling would prefer it if these stems are about 5% - 10% of a
staff space longer to make the visual impression that the ‘bubble’/the thicker
end of the stem is centred visually between the staff lines or on the staff line
and not just reaching a very tiny bit over it as it is now.

To illustrate what I mean, I attached a small part of your score (stems only).
The first and the third stem are from your original and the second and fourth
stem are my proposition (only regarding the thicker end of it – of course they
would have to reach down to the note head).

What do you think?


Two more questions:
- What usage scenarios are you thinking about for these styles?
  A complete renaissance score to reproduce a historic original, incipits,
  renaissance and modern staffs in the same score, anything else?
- How easy would is it to reuse the musical content of an ancient staff in a
  modern staff to show a modern equivalent?

Cheers,
Joram

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