At 8:05 PM +0100 6/28/06, Owain Sutton wrote:
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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.
Would these be formed simply by placing the type for individual notes
alongside one another, rather than having specific ligature type?
Petrucci certainly had the latter, but only for a limited number of
two-note ligatures.
It would depend on the ligature. Certainly one with a
backwards-turned final note above the preceding note (yeah, I know
there's a specific name for that, but I'm too lazy to go look it up)
could not be constructed with a separate piece of type, quite apart
from needing a variety of stem lengths to cover all situations. But
I would imagine that some compound ligatures would have been feasible.
John
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