Score incipit
Posted: 19 Oct 2010 20:07
Hi,
Some early music modern scores begin with an indication of the original clefs.
I was told it's called an incipit (meaning "beginning" AFAIK).
My question is about the reason why some people give only a part of the original information.
While it's interesting to get the intended range by reading these clefs, it is also interesting to know the very first note(s) of each part.
When this is shown, you know, at once, if there has been a transposition and if the values have been divided - all this information is thus given in less than half an inch (to be compared with the place needed for equivalent textual comments) !
Thus I'd kindly request any editor wishing to insert an incipit - and owning a score editor able to create it - not to stop in the middle of the river !
I know there might be software limitations involved - my score editor is currently unable to create any kind of incipit
Some early music modern scores begin with an indication of the original clefs.
I was told it's called an incipit (meaning "beginning" AFAIK).
My question is about the reason why some people give only a part of the original information.
While it's interesting to get the intended range by reading these clefs, it is also interesting to know the very first note(s) of each part.
When this is shown, you know, at once, if there has been a transposition and if the values have been divided - all this information is thus given in less than half an inch (to be compared with the place needed for equivalent textual comments) !
Thus I'd kindly request any editor wishing to insert an incipit - and owning a score editor able to create it - not to stop in the middle of the river !
I know there might be software limitations involved - my score editor is currently unable to create any kind of incipit