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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If neumes aren't named, then one can only rely on melodic contour. Using this approach, one could never search for either 'pes' or 'pes subipunctis', only for a particular
contour (in either absolute or relative terms), in which case any set of elements representing the sought after contour should be returned, unless additional filtering is applied. A filter could, for example, exclude "hits" that don't match the structure
of a pes subipunctis; that is, a neume consisting of a two-note neume followed by two single-note neumes.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In an ideal world, we would have a way of using the neume names AND searching for particular contours, just as different search criteria. The reason is that the same melody is often rendered using different neume and neume combinations, and right now, we aren't sure why. Being able to pin-point areas where contour is the same but neume choice is different, between sources (or even within one manuscript when the melody occurs more than once) would be a very useful thing to do. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Searching for a single-pitch event in an interface designed for contour searching would be counter intuitive, wouldn't it?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are really only three neumes that represent a single pitch: 1. punctum; 2. virga; 3. tractulus. Everything else represents at least two pitches. So searching for every single punctum in a manuscript might not be the most useful project in the world, but it is at least conceivable to me. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>K </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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