From: Glenn Linderman
>...While the appearance is very similar to two overlapped whole notes, and
it could be constructed that way if all else fails, I was surprised to
find so many variations of whole notes in SMUFL (& Bravura) yet not this
one.<
I think you'll find that that is because it *is* two overlapped whole notes.
Syntactically most music software would surely be structured to have have
two parts on the staff, one with stems up and the other with down. When
they get to a whole note unison, they're still two parts, and rather than
sharing a special symbol, they'd each be thought of as having their own
semibreve, with an offset between the two, to make them visible.
In the days when the images were hammered into a metal plate to make a
negative image for printing, I guess it may have helped to have a single
stamp for the combined symbol in order to create a sharp image. I don't
know if they did this or not, but there is surely no need for it in a
software font, and I wouldn't expect it.
[OTOH SMuFL has a profligate number of clef entries with little 8's above or
below, when the normal clefs plus a separate 8 symbol would have simplified
things considerably. So I also wouldn't have been surprised if it had also
had a double semibreve.]
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software
http://www.mozart.co.uk/
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