Re: Mensural clefs

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've started setting a bit of mensural music, from Dufay.  All of the
> music uses a C clef, similar to the mensural-c.  However, the gap
> between the upper and lower half of the clef is _exactly_ centred on
> the c staff line. Compare this with the lilypond mensural C clef -
> it's centred on the B below.  This seems wrong to me.  All the other C
> clefs are centred on the C. Do we know why?

No idea, but this does not exactly seem new:
<URL:http://dvoi.com/files/lilypond/2.8.1/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-clefs.html>

Huh.

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David Kastrup