Gregorio Tutorial (part II)

Here we continue the gabc tutorial that began on this page.

The documentation for the gabc notation, the notation we use in this tutorial, can be found here.

Kyrie XVII (continued)

Our goal is to typeset this score using Gregorio:

So far we have written this partial gabc file:

kyrie-17-09.gabc
name:Kyrie XVII;
%%
(c4)KY(f)ri(gfg)e(h.) *() e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) <i>bis</i>(::)

And we obtained this result after processing by gregorio and LaTeX:

So let's add the notes, note shapes, flats, ictuses (icti?), and punctum mora for the remainder:

Adding notes for the remainder of the piece

kyrie-17-10.gabc
name:Kyrie XVII;
%%
(c4)KY(f)ri(gfg)e(h.) *() e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) <i>bis</i>(::)
Chri(ixj)ste(jv.hijv.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  <i>bis</i>(::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  (::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) *() (ixfhjjkij.) **() e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  (::)

Here is the result after processing by gregorio and LaTeX:

Adding the quarter bars

The previous Kyrie, on the third line of the score, needs quarter bars above the asterisks. Here's a reminder of the characters for separator bars:

In the gabc file, we place a comma (,) after the asterisks in those two places to represent the quarter bars.

kyrie-17-11.gabc
name:Kyrie XVII;
%%
(c4)KY(f)ri(gfg)e(h.) *() e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) <i>bis</i>(::)
Chri(ixj)ste(jv.hijv.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  <i>bis</i>(::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  (::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) *(,) (ixfhjjkij.) **(,) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  (::)

Here is the result after processing by gregorio and LaTeX:

Grouping notes into neumes as desired

In the last Kyrie, I've circled two sets of notes. I'd like the second set to be arranged into the same neume pattern as the first set.

Here's a fragment from the gabc file for those notes:

Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) *(,) (ixfhjjkij.) **(,)

The sequence (ixfhjjkij.) represents the notes (and the flat) after the first asterisk. If we add an exclamation point (!) and make it into (ixf!hjjkij.), that will tell Gregorio where we want a note grouping to begin. So now that fragment becomes:

Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) *(,) (ixf!hjjkij.) **(,)
kyrie-17-12.gabc

and here is the gabc file:

name:Kyrie XVII;
%%
(c4)KY(f)ri(gfg)e(h.) *() e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) <i>bis</i>(::)
Chri(ixj)ste(jv.hijv.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  <i>bis</i>(::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  (::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) *(,) (ixf!hjjkij.) **(,) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.)  (::)

And the result after processing by gregorio and LaTeX:

Now we need to add the mode notation "VI" before the first clef and add the annotation "XIV. s." above the first stave. Let's work on that on the next page of the tutorial.

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