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For ancient notation, a note head style other than the default style
may be chosen. This is accomplished by setting the style property of
the NoteHead object to baroque, neomensural,
mensural or petrucci.
The baroque style differs from the default style by:
maxima notehead, and
\breve note heads.
The neomensural, mensural, and petrucci styles differ from
the baroque style by:
The mensural and petrucci styles aim to emulate the appearance
of historic printed music. The petrucci style uses larger note
heads.
The following example demonstrates the petrucci style
\set Score.skipBars = ##t
\autoBeamOff
\override NoteHead #'style = #'petrucci
a'\maxima a'\longa a'\breve a'1 a'2 a'4 a'8 a'16 a'
When typesetting a piece in Gregorian chant notation, the
Vaticana_ligature_engraver automatically selects the proper
note heads, so there is no need to explicitly set the note head style.
Still, the note head style can be set, e.g., to vaticana_punctum to
produce punctum neumes. Similarly, the
Mensural_ligature_engraver automatically assembles mensural
ligatures. See Ligatures, for how ligature engravers work.
Note head styles, gives an overview of all available note head styles.
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