Hi Christopher,
The standard way of indicating a harp glissando and notating the
pitches is as seven 32nd notes and then extend the beams over a
little. From there use a gliss. line to the final pitch of the gliss.
and put a slur over it. An excellent reference on harp writing is a
book called Harp Scoring by Stanley Chaloupka.
Hope that helps,
Greg
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From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 30, 2008 6:14:14 PM PDT (CA)
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] Harp gliss grace notes
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
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?
Christopher
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