SVG package for Renaissance incipits

Hi,

You will find in attachment a small collection of SVG files useful to prepare incipit images for Renaissance music editions.

I made it as I need it and as MuseScore 1.2 (as well as 2.0, in case) readily support SVG embedding.

The ZIP file contains:

• 1 larger SVG with all (all?) the symbols needed to build incipits for Renaissance music (a stretch of staff, note values, rests, clefs, accidentals, dot).
• 3 smaller sample files with ready-made demo incipits of different length (6, 8 and 10 sp).

All files have been created with Inkscape and I have been sucessfully embedded in ver. 1.2 and ver. 2.0 scores, both under Linux (Ubuntu 11.04) and under Win 7 (no Mac here...). I expect them to work under other vectorial drawing software too, but I have not tested them.

All symbols are in the scale of 10 pixels per spatium and have at least one prominent vertex aligned on the 1x1 pixel grid, so that, by enabling grid snap in Inkscape, symbols can be easily and precisely dragged to the proper vertical position without zoomin the drawing too much.

The typographic style comes from several XVI century Venetian printings (but two different G clefs are included, one from Italian and one from French sources) and has a boldish flavor (which I like, but I understand someone might not!).

The palette SVG includes some symbols which are easily derived from other (upward and downward note values, longa rest, etc.) but I decided to include them all to speed up incipit building. It lacks symbols needed for music of older times, but even for them it might be a good starting point.

A possible usage procedure might be:

1) Open one of the supplied samples
2) Re-save it under a new name
3) Edit it to contains the appropriate symbols, copying and pasting them from the large, palette SVG
4) Save
5) Drag the finished SVG into the appropriate place of the score.

Hoping someone will find it useful,

M.