signa congruentiae

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signa congruentiae

2012-11-22 02:18 pm

I saw this message in another forum, anyone ever heard of it? Is it in a font we have?

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I'm transcribing some Tudor music and, in the original, there are some
"squiggle-like signs" that I think are called signa congruentiae. They seem to
indicate points where all the parts come together.

Just wondering whether anyone has ever encoded these signs in abc. They look a
bit like a mirror image of a question mark, or a distorted S. For the moment,
I'm just annotating an "S" above the stave, but it would be nice to use
something more authentic.

The original message is here.

Re: signa congruentiae

Reply #1 – 2012-11-22 03:40 pm

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/typesetting-mensural-music#mensural-contexts
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/The-Feta-font.html#Script-glyphs

Re: signa congruentiae

Reply #2 – 2012-11-22 03:46 pm

That's a good link for the specific notation being asked about, but you might like to update your bookmarks for general work. The current stable release of Lilypond is 2.16 which has some significant improvements to it. Anyone keen on mensural notation should go to the latest development version (currently 2.17.7) which has an improved mensural C clef (IMHO).

Re: signa congruentiae

Reply #3 – 2012-11-23 12:41 pm

Thanks people, I've passed that information on.