This is what I was thinking the pes initio debilis should look like: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/typesetting-gregorian-chant.ja.html
That's less likely to be confused with what is on that page called a Cephalicus. Benjamin Bloomfield On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 16:13, Adam Bartlett <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm grateful to Benjamin for the work he has done on this wonderful GUI > for Gregorio. > > Also, what does the initio debilis mean? I don’t recall seeing any in the > Liber Usualis. > > > The initio debilis is found in the ancient manuscripts and was not taken > into account in the early Solesmes notation. Beginning in 1981 with the > Psalterium Monasticum (I believe) Solesmes began including this and several > other adaptations of the the square note notation to include several of the > nuances contained in the ancient adiestematic manuscripts. These are > described in the introduction to the Liber Hymnarius (1983). > > > On Feb 3, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Benjamin Bloomfield wrote: > > If anyone is interested, I put up a page a little while ago to turn GABC > into a PDF without having to install TeX and everything locally. The page > is here: http://illuminarepublications.com/gregorio, and when I put a > podatus in with an initio debilis (-fg) it looks very much like a clivis > ending with a liquescent neume (gf~) but without the stem. Is this what it > should look like? Also, what does the initio debilis mean? I don’t recall > seeing any in the Liber Usualis. > > *Benjamin Bloomfield* > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 16:11, Veronica Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, I replied direct to Michele, but I'll write to the list too to >> say that all those work for me using gregorio v2.1-svn. >> >> I'll attach my pdf. >> >> I hope Christopher Gray got an answer back in December. It looks like >> gregorio is getting more famous. Are Elie Roux and Tracy Llenos still >> around? >> >> Veronica Brandt >> >> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:53:48PM +0100, Michele Baresi wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm having the same problem that Christopher Gray was experiencing some >> time >> > ago with a "podatus initio debilis". >> > If I put "-fg" gregorio (v2.0) makes debilis the second note and not >> the first >> > one. >> > >> > thanks, >> > Michele >> > >> > PS: I was not on the list at that time, I found this from Christopher >> inside >> > Gregorio-users archives: >> > >> > Posted by Christopher Gray on December 17, 2011 - 13:26: >> > >> > Greetings! >> > I'm having trouble getting a podatus initio debilis with the right >> shape. >> > If >> > I ask for something like -ehg I get a proper torculus initio >> debilis with >> > the >> > first note on the left of the second; however, if I just ask for >> -eh I get >> > a >> > regular podatus shape. How do I get a pesquassus initio debilis? >> > Yours, >> > Christopher Gray >> > Pontifical North American College >> > Vatican City State >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gregorio-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >> >> >> -- >> Mrs. Veronica Brandt >> 0407 887 637 >> http://www.brandt.id.au >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of >> a >> child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the >> essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining >> that >> human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a >> tree. >> When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel the same kind >> of >> obligation to these creatures that [God] might feel. -- GKC >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gregorio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > >
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