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 Old French Notation
Author: bill28099 
Date:   2016-06-02 08:07

I'm looking at a piece of music dated 1729, most of it is now figured out but many notes have a + over them. Any ideas what it means? http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Suites_for_2_Musettes,_Op.2_%28Braun,_Jean-Daniel%29

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 Re: Old French Notation
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2016-06-02 08:28

It's either a mordent or a trill. I can't find any info about it, even searching for ornaments used by Quantz which I thought would've given something definite as to what a + ornament means.

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 Re: Old French Notation
Author: greenslater 
Date:   2016-06-02 10:52

French ornamentation is quite a specialised topic. I'd point you to the table from Hotteterres Principles (which is a succinct and useful summary) but on I'm the train ATM but with some googling you should be able to find it. Otherwise http://webbut.unitbv.ro/bu2011/Series%20VIII/BULETIN%20VIII%20PDF/02_Kovacs.pdf seemed to be quite a good summary of the topic.

Or see the fifth page of this

http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/a/ae/IMSLP61713-PMLP126071-hotteterre_suites.pdf

Brad



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 Re: Old French Notation
Author: bill28099 
Date:   2016-06-02 19:39

Thank you greenslater for those links. I was searching on notation and it looks like the word to use is ornamentation. Googling is an art. I found your links in a flash plus many others.

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