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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:
maxima
notehead, and
\breve
note heads.
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'
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.
Note head styles, gives an overview of all available note head styles.
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