To start, I entirely agree, adding Ben. neumes is WAY larger a project
then adding St. Gall or Laon, and doing it as a seperate development
effort seems entirely reasonable.
I would say, ignoring orthographical differences between manuscripts,
these would be the key Beneventan Neumes (consider this a rough draft,
I'll try to get something better on the wiki)
1 Note: 3 forms, no heights
2 note:
3 forms(2 forms of Pes, one of clivus), 4 intervals for each (I've
never seen a neume with a larger jump then a fifth, so I'm using that as
the max of an interval)
3 note:
Torculus: 1 form, 4*4 intervals (as much as a leap of a fifth to the
second note, and then down as much as a fifth to the 3rd)
porrectus: 2 forms (flat front line, angled front line), same 4*4
intervals
climacus: 1 form (one shape for 3 notes)
I'd say there are 4 forms each of the following ascending neumes
Scandicus
Salicus
quillisma
pressus
4 note :
climacus: 1 form
This is not exhaustive, there's no liquessence, which would add an order
of magnitude and none of the crazy compound neumes (see
http://mt.wiglaf.org/aaronm/assets_c/2013/02/Cassino-Montecassino-Page%20of%20Tones0242-2419.html
6 lines from the bottom for some sample compound neumes)
A
On 6/27/13 2:00 PM, Élie Roux wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Reading Paléographie Musicale XV further, I think the previous method I
> proposed you is good for simple glyphs, but is not exhaustive at all. If
> you take p. 136 of Paléographie Musicale XV further, you can see a neume
> of approximately 8 notes. Drawing it for all possible ambitus, if we
> take a maximum ambitus of 5 would mean drawing 5^8 = 390625 glyphs! This
> is just impossible.
>
> So another proposal would be the following:
> * keep the ambitus as proposed in my previous mail, for simple glyphs
> (clivis, pes, etc.). This means the font will require thousands of
> glyphs to be drawn (a job that will take a few weeks!).
> * start a database with all possible Beneventan glyphs, including all
> different ambitus that one can find in the manuscripts, and give them a
> number. Then they should be drawn and they'll be callable by sg:zzz
> where zzz is their number.
>
> I see no other possible solution... what do you think? Or maybe I
> misunderstood the Beneventan notation?
>
> These solutions require a *huge* development I cannot undertake alone in
> my free time, so if there is no other solution, what I propose is to
> start the development of ancient notation with St Gall and Laon neumes;
> and with only simple Beneventan neumes that will work like the others,
> very simply.
>
> If there are funds to develop the whole interface needed to encode
> Beneventan manuscripts, I'll be very happy to do it; but I cannot spend
> the two or three months necessary to develop the whole interface without
> an income...
>
> Thank you,
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