Musical Information in Musicology and Desktop Publishing

Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Edmund Correia, Jr.

Table of Contents

• Musical Information: An Introduction
  • Musical Information in Musicology
  • Musical Information in Music Desktop Publishing
• Category 1. Duration and Alignment
  • Type 1. Correct alignment of ratios
  • Type 2. Unmeasured cadenzas
  • Type 3. Aleatoric composition
  • Type 4. Excessive measure length
• Category 2. Coordinate spacing of vertical and horizontal elements
  • Type 1. Elaboration of ornamentation signs
  • Type 2. Presentation of basso continuo figuration
• Category 3. Text underlay
  • Type 1. Text extenders
  • Type 2. Vertical alignment styles
  • Type 3. Multiple stanzas
  • Type 4. Stanzas in multiple languages
  • Type 5. Text overlay/underlay requiring non-Roman alphabets
• Category 4. Ties, Slurs, Beams, and Stems
  • Slurs Type 1. Very long slurs
  • Slurs Type 2. Very high slurs
  • Slurs Type 3. Potential collisions between slurs and other elements
  • Slurs Type 4. Half-inverted slurs
  • Beams Type 1. Segmentation of secondary beams
  • Beams Type 2. Horizontal displacement of secondary beams
  • Beams Type 3. Stems in reverse directions from a common beam
  • Beams Type 4. Non-coincident stems
  • Beams Type 5. Non-coincident beams

• Category 5. Early Music
  • Type 1. Neumes in unmeasured notation
  • Type 2. Time signatures in mensural notation
  • Type 3. Neumes and notes in mensural and colored notation
  • Type 4. Modern editions of early music
    • a. Mensurstriche in mensural notation
    • b. Facsimile reproduction
• Category 6. Recent Music
  • Type 1. Beams: Wedged and stemless
  • Type 2. Time signatures: Compound meters
  • Type 3. Notehead modifications