It's there some of the time, and not others. So not a convention, but sloppy engraving I think.
-----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu Sent: 10 November 2010 09:15 To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: 'My Deary sits ower late up' BTW, does anyone know whether the omission of the dot after the first quaver in, for example, the last bar of the first strain was a convention of the time (given that there was not much music around in 11/16 time) or just an error? c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
