Moving the center of messa di voce hairpins

Dorico Pro Help

Product

Dorico Pro

Version

4.3

Language

English

Document type

Webhelp

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You can move the center of individual messa di voce hairpins rhythmically; for example, if you want them to peak on different notes.

Prerequisite

The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

Select the messa di voce hairpins whose center you want to move. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate Messa di voce inflection in the Dynamics group.
Move the center of the selected messa di voce hairpins in any of the following ways:
- To move them to the right, increase the value in the left value field.
- To move them to the left, decrease the value in the left value field.
- To move them to the left to grace notes at the rhythmic position set by the left value field, decrease the value in the right value field.
Tip
1 represents a quarter note.

Result

The centers of the selected messa di voce hairpins are moved rhythmically.

Tip

In Write mode, you can also click and drag messa di voce hairpin center handles to noteheads to the right/left.

Example

For example, entering 1 1/2 into the left value field and -1/2 into the right value field moves messa di voce hairpin centers a dotted quarter note to the right of their start position, and to the first of two sixteenth grace notes at that rhythmic position.