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2.8.2.1 Ancient note heads

For ancient notation, a note head style other than the default style may be chosen. This is accomplished by setting the style property of the NoteHead object to baroque, neomensural, mensural or petrucci.

The baroque style differs from the default style by:

The neomensural, mensural, and petrucci styles differ from the baroque style by:

The mensural and petrucci styles aim to emulate the appearance of historic printed music. The petrucci style uses larger note heads.

The following example demonstrates the petrucci style

     
     \set Score.skipBars = ##t
     \autoBeamOff
     \override NoteHead #'style = #'petrucci
     a'\maxima a'\longa a'\breve a'1 a'2 a'4 a'8 a'16 a'

[image of music]

When typesetting a piece in Gregorian chant notation, the Vaticana_ligature_engraver automatically selects the proper note heads, so there is no need to explicitly set the note head style. Still, the note head style can be set, e.g., to vaticana_punctum to produce punctum neumes. Similarly, the Mensural_ligature_engraver automatically assembles mensural ligatures. See Ligatures, for how ligature engravers work.

See also

Note head styles, gives an overview of all available note head styles.

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