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Using tags to produce mensural and modern music from the same source

…Using tags, it is possible to produce both mensural and modern notation from the same music. In … …r\breve, etc.) in the mensural version. Converting mensural music to its modern equivalent is usually referred … …engraver. [The slightly shortened line length of the mensural staff avoids cropping of the custos glyph while …

…version 2.25.23. \override Flag.style = #'mensural } } } \score { \keepWithTag #'mod { \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff { \…

Mensural note heads

Mensural notes may also have note heads.

…119 \score { { \relative c'' { \override NoteHead.style = #'mensural c\maxima*1/8 c\longa*1/4 …

Mensural ligatures

In mensural ligatures, notes with ancient durations are printed in …

…Score.TimeSignature \cadenzaOn \override Staff.Rest.style = #'mensural <>^\markup \typewriter { mensural } \restsA \bar "" \break \override Staff.Rest.style = #'…

…a' f'>1 \override Staff.Custos.style = #'mensural c1^"mensural" \break <d a' f'>1 }

When transcribing mensural music, an incipit at the beginning of the … …were not yet invented during the period of mensural music; in fact, the meter often changed after …

In mensural notation, you can find double time signatures, such as mensural 6/4 followed by the classical time signature …

…override Staff.Accidental.alteration-glyph-name-alist = #alteration-mensural-glyph-name-alist cisis^\markup { \typewriter mensural } cis c ces ceses }

…c' { \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(cross triangle fa #f mensural xcircle diamond) \fragment } }