At 10:02 AM -0400 6/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot think of any examples exceeding a pair of notes.
Agreed, 2-note ligatures with opposite propriety are the large majority.
Throughout most periods compositional changes drive notational changes, I agree, but I do believe notation drove composition at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and I think the same may happen now.
I've been trying to think of examples of this, and I come up empty. Would you care to elaborate? Yes, that was the period in which typeset music joined manuscript music (which it NEVER completely replaced!), but the point of the typesetting was to duplicate the highest quality hand copying at a drastically reduced cost. I honestly cannot think of any example of notational practice driving stylistic change, which in any case was ongoing from about 1430 through about 1620 (without even attempting to address the huge changes in both style and notation in the early 17th century!).
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