On Aug 30, 2008, at 11:24 PM, John Howell wrote:
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
Yeah, they are pretty much grace notes, in that they have
indeterminate rhythm. They are the first six notes of a three-octave
gliss, followed by a gliss marking to the top note two more octaves
away. The notation is pretty standard; I just haven't had to do it
until now, preferring the text pedalling indication suggested by
arabushk (sorry, he didn't indicate his name! I suppose I should know
it by now, but I never look at the email addresses).
Why should the program, treating them as grace notes, move them
BEFORE the note they come after? Why don't they keep their positioning?
Thanks for offering to ask for me, but I don't need notation help
(the composer is pretty clear) I needed Finale help.
Christopher
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