Re: A note which is three measures long

[Simon Albrecht]

On 31.08.2017 14:40, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> At the end of the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Brevis there is a note
> three measure long. Is there any way to do that simply?

Yes, there is. However, that is actually a \maxima (with a duration of 
8*1) and the Möseler edition you’re copying from probably halved the 
note values (which I consider a bad idea, because it doesn’t make a real 
difference for legibility and it obscures historical relations).
See 
<http://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_Brevis_(Palestrina,_Giovanni_Pierluigi_da)#Scores> 
for a scientific edition [1] and a new typeset by myself. I’m sorry if 
you had much work copying it yourself if an .ly source was already 
available… I always use Completion_heads_engraver and code the original 
note values, instead of hard-coding any ties, in mensural music.

Best, Simon

[1] On the use of barlines and dividing cross-bar notes with ties: This 
is an authentic practice of Palestrina’s time, only this is very little 
known since scores at the time were almost exclusively drawn on slates 
(Schiefertafeln) and erased after copying out parts. The fallacy of not 
using bar lines in scores („Partitur“ literally means that it is divided 
with bar lines), often found in mid-20th century editions of mensural 
music, is no longer pursued in modern scientific editions.