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> From: Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg...@gmail.com>
> To: lilypond-user Mailinglist <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
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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
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