Re: Iversen's second multiconfused log thread
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 8:50 pm
I wrote mine in oldfashioned sheet music format on ordinary A4 white paper with lines (made with a stencil duplicator or - later -by photocopying), using an antique fountain pen containing black ink. And that's how the sheets existed until recently, when I scanned the whole lot (with a few exceptions which should be revised first). I have read somewhere that music editors now often pay somebody to play the parts on a keyboard, and then some clever software converts it to oldstyle notation.
Once upon a time there even was a sort of notation that used words, namely the one of...
LA: ... Guidonis Aretini, qui monachus fuit abbatiae Pomponae apud Ferrariam et ibi praetabat musicam. Ille sciebat hymnum Pauli Diaconi cui lineae gradum formabant orientem:
Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famuli tuorum
Solve polluti
Labii reatum
Sancte Iohannes
Francogalli hodierni iam dicunt "ut", omnes alii dicunt "do". Guido tamen modo videbat "ut" quam nota fundamentalis quaelibet musicae, at postea ut/do cum sono "C" certe agnota fuit, et nunc Ut/do semper "C" significat, Re "D" et cetera. Sed 'numerus' ("rhythm" in lingva latina - vocabulum melius vehementer opus est!) non in 'ratione' (="system" -vocabulum melius etiam hic opus est!) Guidonis tractabatur. Guido etiam dicatus est inventationis 'rationis' notationis musicae cum partibus manus - "manus guidoni" - sed dubitandum est quod ille auctor esset rationis.
EN: But irrespective of whether or not Guido actually invented it - this last system could be seen as the first kind of musical notation in the form of a 'manual' sign language.
Once upon a time there even was a sort of notation that used words, namely the one of...
LA: ... Guidonis Aretini, qui monachus fuit abbatiae Pomponae apud Ferrariam et ibi praetabat musicam. Ille sciebat hymnum Pauli Diaconi cui lineae gradum formabant orientem:
Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famuli tuorum
Solve polluti
Labii reatum
Sancte Iohannes
Francogalli hodierni iam dicunt "ut", omnes alii dicunt "do". Guido tamen modo videbat "ut" quam nota fundamentalis quaelibet musicae, at postea ut/do cum sono "C" certe agnota fuit, et nunc Ut/do semper "C" significat, Re "D" et cetera. Sed 'numerus' ("rhythm" in lingva latina - vocabulum melius vehementer opus est!) non in 'ratione' (="system" -vocabulum melius etiam hic opus est!) Guidonis tractabatur. Guido etiam dicatus est inventationis 'rationis' notationis musicae cum partibus manus - "manus guidoni" - sed dubitandum est quod ille auctor esset rationis.
EN: But irrespective of whether or not Guido actually invented it - this last system could be seen as the first kind of musical notation in the form of a 'manual' sign language.