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Mensural note heads

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:

The neomensural, mensural, and petrucci styles differ from the baroque style by:

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'
     

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See also

Note head styles gives an overview of all available note head styles.

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