Round note font
  • monkosb
    Posts: 6
    Perhaps you can help some poor monks, or at least point us in the right direction. Our community is redoing our pages for our responsorial psalms; we're mostly using the Meinrad fonts in Microsoft Word but we sing the responsories in polyphony on Solemnities and those need to be in modern notation. Do you know if there is a free font for Microsoft Word that would allow us to use round notes (yes, round notes without the stem) on a five bar staff?
  • Charles in CenCA
    Posts: 2,416
    Br./Fr.
    Some of us use FINALE family software that enables one to denote stemless round noteheads on the staff. There might be shareware that others know about on the web that allow for the same function. I don't know how you'd use even a "Maestro" or other music symbol font in MSWord processing and apply it in that format to a staff.
  • Richard R.
    Posts: 776
    Meinrad used to offer a round-note font, called Melody. If they don't sell it anymore, I can send along my copy.
  • RobertRobert
    Posts: 343
    There is Volpiano: http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/volpiano.html, which is used mainly by scholars but can be useful for some other purposes.
  • mhjell
    Posts: 32
    abc notation, with a plethora of implementation options, allows stemless notes on modern staffs. The simplest implementation to use for experimentation is a page on folkinfo.org
    http://abcnotation.com/
    http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php
    I've used them to create the original output for pew "cards" of the Latin Ordinary, complete with English translation presented as if it were the second verse.

    -Mike
  • AJ in Toronto
    Posts: 28
    Not a font for Microsoft Word, but have you tried MuseScore? It's a free music notation software in which you can hide stems, bar lines and time signatures to emulate plain chant round note notation. Feature rich, it includes a good lyric tool, export to PDF and expression symbols.

    Here is the link:

    http://musescore.org/
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