Today, after a long evolution, the melodies of Gregorian Chat,
which are contained within the diatonic scale C (n Ut) to B,
are noted on a 4 line staff. The lines are counted from the
bottom to teh top. The c-clef is placed on the 2nd, 3rd or
4th line + the F-clef is placed almost always on
the 3rd line
Gregorian notation has 4 signs for rests: the diviso major
at the end of a phrase; the diviso minor; the minima; +
at teh end of a piece fo finalis.
The custos stands at the end of each
line of music + indicates the first note of the next line.
note quadrants - developed from the punctum + which from the 13th C
or opened from Italy + supplanted other systems.
Roman + Germanic Notation - the former subtle differentiation
is sacnificed in this change to square notation, so that from
the 13+14 centuries on, there are in effect only 2 basic
forms of Gregorian notation: the Roman to its Latin nota
quadrata; + the Gothic, to its Germanic, originally cursive
form which was subsequently supplanted by the
coarser "Huntnagel" nemmes. The nota quadrata forcees its
entry indirectly into the Germanic-Gothic regions through
the choir books of the various monastic orfers especially
the Franciscans, which existed in all countries.
Hymnuinm Cistercian in - 8", 1909 Impaim. de la Treppe
de Westmalle,
Gothic notation is the latest of the distinctive neumatic styles. It
originated in the 14th C as a derivative of the Messine notation,
the Hufnagal shape of the virga being a German
version of the Messine "swallow"
Hufnagel type of plaimouny notation found in German + Eastern European
manuscripts of the 13-16th C. Developed from the early neumatic
notation of the St Fall + southern Germany.
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