Re: caesura

[Paul Scott]

Graham Percival wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2003 12:29:36 +0200
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
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> > address@hidden writes:
> >    
> >
> > > Here's a scan of a caesura captured in the wild.
> > >
> > >  http://daniel.ashtonfam.org/caesura.gif
> > >
> > > This is from some Canadian Brass music published by Hal Leonard.  The
> > > scan contains two examples of the notation in question.
> > >      
> > This is a scan of computer generated (oh no), American typesetting (oh
> > no).  I prefer to see a hand-engraved European edition.
> >    
>
> I'm not certain if this has come up before, but you can see a different
> kind of caesura in input/test/divisiones.ly
>
> The kind of caesura that Daniel and I are more familiar with is a bigger
> version of that symbol, and doubled (two slashes).  Maybe some people
> started putting two of them together in order to make it easier to see
> the difference between a virgula and a caesura?  There's probably some
> interesting history in the evolution of that mark.  :)
I can't look at input/test/divisiones.ly at the since I am rebuilding 
Lily but Daniel's version has two slashes and is identical to the one I 
am familiar with except that the two slashes are usually of the same 
size whereas the second of the slashes in Daniel's example is shorter.  
Are we both talking about the symbol that occurs at the end of bars 22 
and 38?

Another issue I see is that apparently Caesura has another meaning of 
which I was not aware.  I'm not sure where in Lily doc's I saw it but it 
has to do with early music.

Paul Scott