I’m a big fan of the double-whole notes with single wings. For psalm chanting, I like to use the double-wholes for the reciting tones, and also what I will affectionately term “double halves” for cadential notes that take more than one syllable. Basically, in this system, notes with wings take as much text as is set beneath them, and the whole notes are for normal reciting tones, and the smaller variant only applies at cadences.
I’m trying to match the wings as closely as possible, and I’m wondering if these little (slightly rounded) wing characters are hiding in the smufl spec somewhere. If they are, I 'haven’t found them yet and would appreciate it if someone could point me to them.
Sadly, I cannot get my own concoctions to quite match in size or style yet. It’s probably “good enough for government work” but I’d love to match it exactly if I can. The problem is when you use regular characters, scaling them to be the right height can cause them to be the wrong width, or vice versa. I haven’t landed on a character from a font that I’m happy with yet.
As an addendum, I’ll mention that the single-winged breve is missing from the normal SMUFL notehead category, and I can only find it in the Unicode area. I’m not sure if this is intended or not. It seems like it should be under the noteheads header with all the rest.
The single-wing glyph is (properly) a “stylistic alternate” for the double-winged one, so that’s as intended.
As for how to do this, I’m thinking another font is the easiest way. You could get the exact wing shape and match it, and the glyph width would be built-in.
That’s what I’m asking: where is this shape to be found? Is it even accessible as a part of a font? Or was this all custom-made as a part of the notehead, and therefore I just have to experiment with font after font until I’m satisfied with ‘close enough’?
Of course if you open Bravura in a font editor you can copy the shape. I don’t want to offer someone else’s services, but we know @dan_kreider could do this in a snap. All you’d need is a font with one glyph in it (so far).
I was using that shape in my original examples. What I was inquiring about was the specific shape of the wings. Sorry if that was confusing. I was trying to make my “double-halves” have wings to match the glyph that you reference.
I’m surprised that there is not a solution to this. I don’t deal in chant often, but having a double whole note with just single wings is how chant it frequently notated in church books, so there should be a way.
The default ‘double whole note’ in Dorico is ugly and not something I have ever seen. And no music font change seems to affect it.
I installed @Dan_Kreider1 most recent “MusGlyphs”, but still can’t figure out what to do.
Again, not a huge issue for me, but would love to solve the problem. Maybe there is something that I’m just missing.
Ahh…I see now. I was able to select the round notehead rather than the square.(The square I was not familiar with at all). I’m actually fine with the double lines on either side, just would be nice if there was a signle line note somewhere to match some chant format.
