On Jun 28, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
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.
Each separate note has its own type block, including the staff lines.
But the blocks include all those needed to produce ligatures; the page
in question shows, for example, both open and filled diagonal "slide"
ligatures, each comprised of two adjoining type blocks with the
beginning and end of the ligature respectively. From this it may be
assumed that such 2-piece diagonals must have been available for every
interval and at every staff position. Because *every* note form
completely filled the width of its block, it was easy enough to put
together ligatures of 3, 4, however many notes simply by adjoining
blocks for the correct note forms.
I suspect that something similar would be the way to compile ligatures
in Finale!
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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