music-glossary: custos
1.74 custos
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ES: custos, I: custos, guida, F: guidon, D: Notenzeiger, Custos, NL: ?,
DK: ?, S: ?, FI: vihje.
A custos (plural: custodes) is a staff symbol that appears at the end
of a staff line with monophonic musical contents (i.e., with a single
voice). It anticipates the pitch of the first note of the following
line and thus helps the player or singer to manage line breaks during
performance, which enhances the readability of a score.
Custodes were frequently used in music notation until the 16th
century. There were different appearances for different notation
styles. Nowadays, they have survived only in special forms of musical
notation such as the _Editio Vaticana_, dating from the beginning of the
20th century
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