At 9:14 PM -0400 8/30/08, Christopher Smith wrote:
Hey, collective wisdom,
When you are writing a harp gliss of the type that starts with say,
a quarter note, and is followed by six more grace notes indicating
the exact pitches of the scale, how do you get them to line up
properly? Mine keep moving left, before the barline and three or
four of them before the quarter note.
I suppose I could enter them as a sextuplet then manually resize
them, but that seems a lot of work for something that is so normal.
How do you guys do it?
I haven't written for harp, but my guess is that you should not write
them as grace notes because the program will treat them as grace
notes, which they aren't! Why not use appropriate tuplets with full
sized noteheads just like real notes?
Is there a harpist on this list, as there happens to be on the
SibeliusList? If not, I could ask over there.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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