Module volpiano 

Volpiano, the font chant is written in for the CANTUS database: music21’s volpiano.

A Volpiano string is a row of tokens, one character each: 1 and 2 a treble and a bass clef, a letter a note by where it sits on the staff (a capital one liquescent), w, x, i, y and z a flat on an E or a B from there on and their capitals a natural, 3 and 4 a barline and a double barline, one, two or three 7s a line, page or column break, and hyphens the space between notes, one space or more ending a neume. from_volpiano reads one into a part and to_volpiano writes any stream as one.

Enums

Break

Where a manuscript breaks: music21’s volpiano LineBreak, PageBreak and ColumnBreak, written as one, two and three 7s.

Functions

from_volpiano

Reads a Volpiano string into a part, as music21’s toPart does.

to_volpiano

Writes a stream as Volpiano, as music21’s fromStream does.