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From: Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 14:53:00 -0600
Subject: How to increase shift dynamic and end of hairpin
Hello everyone,
I've written a choral work. There are some places in the score where I
have a four-voice choir singing Alleluia on successive half notes. I've
notated a crescendo hairpin to \mf followed by a decrescendo hairpin to
\p on the final half note. Some times LP engraves the score such that
the decrescendo hairpin is clearly visible, but other times the spacing
between the 3rd and 4th half notes is so minimal that that hairpin is,
well, useless as a visual symbol.
This MWE shows what I mean. The dynamics for the upper voice show the
barely visible decrescendo hairpin while the one for the lower voice is
what's desired.
Ideally I simply (!) need to move/shift the upper voice \p and hairpin
end one quarter note to the right. Yet how to do that?
%% MWE
\version "2.19"
\language "english"
\score {
<<
\new Staff {
c'2^\< a2 c'2^\mf^\> f'2^\p
c'2^\< a2 c'2^\mf^\> f'2^\p
}
\new Staff {
a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf) ^\p
a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf)^\p
}
\addlyrics {
Al -- le -- lu -- ia
Al -- le -- lu -- ia
}
>>
}
%%
--
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end
of human existence.”
― Aristotle
This approach is even more succinct:
use scaling to make the half note look like a half, but actually only take up a quarter note of space,
then add the dynamic on a spacer quarter note.
\version "2.19.83"
\include "
english.ly"
\score {
<<
\new Staff {
c'2^\< a2 c'2^\mf^\> f'2*1/2 s4^\p
c'2^\< a2 c'2^\mf^\> f'2*1/2 s4^\p
}
\new Staff {
a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf)^\p
a2^\< f2 a2^\mf^\> c'4( bf)^\p
}
\addlyrics {
Al -- le -- lu -- ia
Al -- le -- lu -- ia
}
>>
}
HTH,
Elaine Alt
415 . 341 .4954 "Confusion is highly underrated"
address@hidden
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