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3.15.3 Ancient rests

Use the style property of grob Rest to select ancient accidentals. Supported styles are classical, neo_mensural and mensural. classical differs from the default style only in that the quarter rest looks like a horizontally mirrored 8th rest. The neo_mensural style suits well for e.g. the incipit of a transcribed mensural piece of music. The mensural style finally mimics the appearance of rests as in historic prints of the 16th century.

The following example demonstrates the neo_mensural style

     \override Rest #'style = #'neo_mensural
     r\longa r\breve r1 r2 r4 r8 r16

[image of music]

There are no 32th and 64th rests specifically for the mensural or neo-mensural style. Instead, the rests from the default style will be taken. See input/test/rests.ly for a chart of all rests.

There are no rests in Gregorian Chant notation; instead, it uses Divisiones.

See also

In this manual: Rests gives a general introduction into the use of rests.

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