[smufl-discuss] Re: Organ Tablature Subset

[dspreadbury]

John wrote:

> My main reason for suggesting the addition of an organ tablature range
isn't
> because it is desperately needed; it just seemed like a potential
oversight
> given SMuFL's aim of being comprehensive. It seems strange to me that a
> range exists for German Renaissance lute tablature (which, after all,
only
> consists of stylized letters, which easily could have used pre-existing
> mathematics Fraktur letter code-points) but that German organ tablature
is
> not accounted for.

I'm not opposed in principle to adding ranges to SMuFL to accommodate
German organ tablature. It's not an area with which I am personally
familiar: my experience goes only as far as the details given in Apel's
book:

https://archive.org/details/notationofpolyph1953apel

(See pages 23 following for what Apel has to say.)

Somebody would need to work up a detailed proposal of what characters
should be included, provide names/descriptions, and also provide details
of where suitable models for the characters can be found, preferably in
published music (e.g. modern editions of 16th century organ books) rather
than merely reproducing e.g. the specimens given in Apel from a couple of
specific manuscripts.

Daniel

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