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7 When transcribing mensural music, an incipit at the beginning of the
8 piece is useful to indicate the original key and tempo. While today
9 musicians are used to bar lines in order to faster recognize rhythmic
10 patterns, bar lines were not yet invented during the period of mensural
11 music; in fact, the meter often changed after every few notes. As a
12 compromise, bar lines are often printed between the staves rather than
17 \set Score.skipBars = ##t
20 \once \override Score.SystemStartBracket #'transparent = ##t
21 \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #1.0 % tight spacing
24 \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'neomensural
25 \override Voice.NoteHead #'style = #'neomensural
26 \override Voice.Rest #'style = #'neomensural
27 \set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f
28 \cadenzaOn % turn off bar lines
30 \once \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##f
32 \skip 1*1 % need this extra \skip such that clef change comes
37 \revert Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment % CHECK: no effect?
38 \cadenzaOff % turn bar lines on again
39 \once \override Staff.Clef #'full-size-change = ##t
40 \set Staff.forceClef = ##t
43 \override Voice.NoteHead #'style = #'default
44 \override Voice.Rest #'style = #'default
46 % FIXME: setting printKeyCancellation back to #t must not
47 % occur in the first bar after the incipit. Dto. for forceClef.
48 % Therefore, we need an extra \skip.
50 \set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##t
51 \set Staff.forceClef = ##f
53 \skip 1*7 % the actual music
55 % let finis bar go through all staves
56 \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##f
64 \set Staff.instrumentName = "Discantus "
67 \clef "neomensural-c1"
69 \skip 1*8 % eight bars
79 \once \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t c'1 |
84 discantusLyrics = \lyricmode {
100 \set Staff.instrumentName = "Altus "
103 \clef "neomensural-c3"
106 \skip 1*7 % seven bars
111 r2 g2. e4 fis g | % two bars
113 fis g4.( fis16 e fis4) |
115 \once \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t g1 |
120 altusLyrics = \lyricmode {
125 Ju -- bi -- la -- te | % two bars
134 \set Staff.instrumentName = "Tenor "
137 \clef "neomensural-c4"
150 r2 d'2. d'4 b e' | % two bars
151 \once \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t e'1 |
156 tenorLyrics = \lyricmode {
161 Ju -- bi -- la -- te | % two bars
168 \set Staff.instrumentName = "Bassus "
172 r\maxima % eight bars
183 \once \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t e1 |
188 bassusLyrics = \lyricmode {
199 \new StaffGroup = choirStaff <<
201 "discantusNotes" << \global \discantusNotes >>
203 "discantusLyrics" \lyricsto discantusNotes { \discantusLyrics }
205 "altusNotes" << \global \altusNotes >>
207 "altusLyrics" \lyricsto altusNotes { \altusLyrics }
209 "tenorNotes" << \global \tenorNotes >>
211 "tenorLyrics" \lyricsto tenorNotes { \tenorLyrics }
213 "bassusNotes" << \global \bassusNotes >>
215 "bassusLyrics" \lyricsto bassusNotes { \bassusLyrics }
222 \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t
224 % incipit should not start with a start delimiter
225 \remove "System_start_delimiter_engraver"
231 \override Slur #'transparent = ##t
233 % Comment in the below "\remove" command to allow line
234 % breaking also at those barlines where a note overlaps
235 % into the next bar. The command is commented out in this
236 % short example score, but especially for large scores, you
237 % will typically yield better line breaking and thus improve
238 % overall spacing if you comment in the following command.
239 %\remove "Forbid_line_break_engraver"