>> The source is the Performers' Facsimiles edition of Dix Sonates by >> Godfrey Finger. > > May be a trill judging from the commentary in the "Ornaments" > article in Grove's and the chart at the end of the article. But in > that source and in "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music," these > paired lines are described as an English ornament (and in Grove's, > Dutch and northern German) from the late 16th and early 17th century > and found in keyboard music.
I see something similar in the MGG, Vol. 9, p. 1426 (Sachteil). Fr. Geminiani (1751) describes it as `a beat'. Let's assume that the double slash is available as a lilypond macro called \beat, then these two are described as being equivalent: g4\beat g64[( fis g fis g fis g fis g fis g]) Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user