[mei-neumes-ig] Liquescent

[Kate Helsen]

Looking at the adiastematic neumes in Hartker, I would say that liquescence
is a way of rendering an <nc> that would otherwise (by "default") look a
different way. I think this means it is naturally described at the
*attribute* level.

In this type of notation I would start with liquescent *forms* such as:
"curled" and "hoop" - to indicate that the curl has closed all the way into
a sort of circle."

The *placement* of these liquescents is usually at the 'end' of the note
(so often "ne") but sometimes they at at the "se" - it depends on the shape
of the rest of the neume.

One might also want to think about *direction* of the "curl" - 95% of the
time I'd say that it's clockwise, but there the torculus resupinus
liquescent bucks the trend by going the other way...

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 at 11:23 Micah John Walter <micahjwalter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Ichiro and all,
>
> Well, one thing I can think of is whether, for neumes on a staff, the
> notehead is visible. (Liquescent neumes without a clear notehead are, I
> believe, a predecessor to the plica.) If this were to be encoded, however,
> it could be an attribute on the <nc> rather than a liquescent element.
>
> Micah
>
>
> > On 21 June 2018, at 11:16, Ichiro Fujinaga, Prof. <
> ichiro.fujinaga at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Currently (http://bit.ly/MEI_Neumes_0_2_3), a liquescent is encoded as
> a boolean attribute of <nc>: @liques
> >
> > On the other hand, episema is an element with its own attributes:
> >   @form {vert | horiz}
> >   @place {n | ne | e | se | s | sw | w | nw} (the placement of the
> episema with respect to the <neume> or <nc> with which it is associated)
> >
> > My question is whether liquescent should be an element?
> >
> > Do we need to encode different “forms” of liquescents?
> > Do we need to encode different placements of liquescents?
> > Or something else?
> >
> > Ichiro
> >
> >
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