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Single-Note Neumes

SINGLE-NOTE NEUME

Punctum

  • Light
  • Proved by Videns Dominus
  • Usually found in combination
SG 359, Cantatorium, Haec dies, f. 107, 8.
Graduale Romanum, Vatican, 1908, pg. 203.

Give thanks to the Lord […]

SINGLE-NOTE APOSTROPHA

Stropha

  • 2 repercussions = bistropha
  • 3 repercussions = tristopha
  • 4+ repercussions = groupings of 2’s or 3’s
SG 359, Cantatorium, Haec dies, f. 107, 5.
Graduale Romanum, Vatican, 1908, pg. 203.

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice […]

Last note in grouping is always emphasized

This is proven in Laon 239, where the last stropha of each grouping has a longer tail than the others.

Single-note emphatic repercussion

[…] and in Your name I will lift up my hands, alleluia.

E 121, Graduale, Deus, Deus, f. 227, 10-11.

Graduale Romanum, Vatican, 1908, pg. 224.

SINGLE-NOTE HIGHER STROKE

Virga

Melodic indication is contextual.

SG 390, Antiphonarium officium, f. 37, 9-10.

Higher than preceding neumes

O Lord, send forth the Lamb, the ruler of all the earth, from the rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughters of Sion.

Higher than following neumes

Antiphonale Romanum II, Solesmes, 2009, pg. 26.

SINGLE-NOTE LOWER STROKE

Tractulus

Melodic indication is contextual

SG 390, Antiphonarium officium, f. 39, 10. 

Lower preceding other neumes

But I am going to look towards the Lord, and I will expect the Lord to be my Savior. 

Lower following other neumes

Lower preceding & following other neumes

Antiphonale monasticum I, Solesmes, 2005, pg. 45.