On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot
think of any examples exceeding a pair of notes.
A page of Mouton's _Messe d'Allemaigne_, as printed by Attaignant and
reproduced in _Pierre Attaignant: Royal Printer of Music_ by Daniel
Heartz, displays several 3-note ligatures, in a variety of forms.
Also, colouration
consisted of black and white notation (simple to do when printing
black ink
on white paper) but red (and blue) notation disappeared because of the
complex process of several passes with different coloured inks.
Though this is true in the long term, it certainly didn't happen
quickly enough to have influenced notation. The volume referenced
above includes at least one Attaignant facsimile showing mixed
red-and-black printing not in the music, but in the words of a title
and dedication. Since the printing issues are the same, this shows
that mid-16th c. printers were perfectly prepared to handle red
notation if it were handed them. That it was not cannot, therefore, be
attributed to any pressure on notational conventions by technology.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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