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 the desired value (baroque
,
neo_mensural
or mensural
). The baroque
style
differs from the default
style only in using a square shape for
\breve
note heads. The neo_mensural
style differs from
the baroque
style in that it uses rhomboidal heads for whole
notes and all smaller durations. Stems are centered on the note
heads. This style is in particular useful when transcribing mensural
music, e.g. for the incipit. The mensural
style finally
produces note heads that mimick the look of note heads in historic
printings of the 16th century.
The following example demonstrates the neo_mensural
style:
\property Voice.NoteHead \set #'style = #'neo_mensural a'\longa a'\breve a'1 a'2 a'4 a'8 a'16
When typesetting a piece in Gregorian Chant notation, a Gregorian
ligature engraver will automatically select the proper note heads,
such 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, a mensural ligature engraver is
used to automatically assemble mensural ligatures. See
Ligatures for how ligature engravers work.
input/regression/note-head-style.ly
gives an overview
over all available note head styles.
Percussion staves use note head styles of their own that are
frequently used in contemporary music notation.
This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).