Add 'filled-in' rectangular breve

[benwiggy]

Could we have a 'solid' rectangular breve notehead? This is seen in things like reciting notes in Responses. Thanks.

[mscuthbert]

This would be a good thing to find in the medieval and Renaissance White-notation-filled head -- is it not there?

[benwiggy]

There doesn't seem to be anything in the M&R ranges.

[benwiggy]

Actually, it is in the M&R noteheads: U+E934 mensuralNoteheadLongaBlack. However, Bravura displays the glyph just as a black rectangle, without the vertical lines that can be seen in the picture above, and those in the corresponding glyphs at U+E937 mensuralNoteheadLongaWhite, U+E933 mensuralNoteheadMaximaWhite, and U+E0A1 noteheadDoubleWholeSquare, etc, etc.

[mscuthbert]

ah -- I had a discussion with Daniel about this long ago and I don't think everything medieval/Renaissance musicologists could want was ever fully implemented.

There is a type of notation called "black" or solid mensural notation and a type of notation called "white" or void mensural notation. The latter starts taking over somewhere around 1450.

However, within black mensural notation "white" notes were also used. Within white mensural notation "black" notes were also used. Graphically the white notes within black mensural notation look very similar to the normal notes of white mensural notation, but they are not identical. (mainly white mensural notation whether void or filled in tends to have prominent serifs and black notation does not). They also have different meanings than each other.

Ideally, we'd do a revision to add "filled notes in white mensural notation" and "void notes in black mensural notation" sections.

[benwiggy]

I think I closed this a bit prematurely. Sorry. Someone else was asking for this symbol today, so it would still be a useful addition.

This is a more modern symbol used for reciting notes, also seen in psalms, rather than a filled void or what-have-you.