Help with notation

LostinNorway

I have a plainsong notated Apostles' Creed in Latin for use in multilingual vespers tomorrow evening, but need to get the melody written out in normal 5 line staff notation - is there anybody who might be willing to do this? I'm trying to get my group to use more plainsong, but there is no way we would be able to manage this with only a 90m rehearsal tomorrow evening unless we have it in regular notation!

JonLaird

Somebody might take you up on it if you can post or link to the original here.

M. Jackson Osborn

I'm surprised that someone here hasn't produced your desired version.
If you have the music and only wish to put it in 'modern' notation you could easily do this manually, write it out by hand, and make copies of it. This should be rather easy to do.

Schönbergian

Would be more than willing to take this on with a link to the original.

chonak

Converting plainchant into modern 5-line notation is usually not a trivial job, because most music notation programs are designed for music with a fixed time signature.

Jackson's suggestion is probably the most expedient way to get the job done quickly. If you don't have any sheet music paper in your office, you can download that from the net: there are several sites with blank "music paper" PDFs available.

Richard Mix

Much as I appreciate the merging of redundant threads, "help with notation" isn't a very useful subject line for Apostles' Creed seekers of the future.

Schönbergian

@chonak: This is where LilyPond comes in handy.

irishtenor

Wouldn't be too difficult if I could see the original...

Lincoln_Hein

The only chant version of apostles creed of the authentic repertoire is this on page 235 of the book Western chant:
https://books.google.com.br/books?id=XzL3_SHNyjoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Western+Plainchant&sig=ACfU3U1ZBqK7bxsY28hjFWdMIcfnX6Y-UQ&redir_esc=y&hl=pt-BR#v=onepage&q=Western Plainchant&f=false

Lincoln_Hein

http://books.google.com/books?id=XzL3_SHNyjoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Western+Plainchant&sig=ACfU3U1ZBqK7bxsY28hjFWdMIcfnX6Y-UQ#PPA235,M1

chonak

This is where LilyPond comes in handy.

Agreed, Schönbergian; Frescobaldi too. But even then, it's quite a bit of work.

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