Any chance I can get this fermata symbol?
Thanks.
Not ideal, but Shift-X to create a text object, then right-click and hit Insert Music Text. Look for “Fermata above” and add it.
Select the character and increase the Font Stretch property to something like 200%, then the font size to about 25 pt.
This is as close as I could get from within Dorico.
Sadly a Playing Technique is not going to resize only on one axis.
Do you have access to a vector drawing program?
Thanks.
Yes. I could try to modify in Photoshop the default fermata symbol. I thought there would be a simpler solution.
Just out of curiosity, why did you think that?
If you have it, use Illustrator, Photoshop is not good for editing vectors.
See this topic from last month.
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I thought there was some symbol in Dorico (unknown to me) that I could use.
I feel like that’s more of an engraving stylistic or mistake more than anything. I have personally never encountered an extra wide fermata with a special meaning. What does it mean that a normal fermata does not?
I cold try illustrator as well.
Yes, it’s not common to find this type of fermata, in fact, it’s the first time I have seen it. But that’s how it’s written in the autograph. Schubert “Arpeggione” sonata, second movement, last bar.
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You can often find them in Mozart’s, Rossini’s and other composers’ scores. It just signals a number of beats ‘out of tempo’.
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It’s often found in opera scores, where a cadenza would have several notes affected by that “long” fermata. So far, I never bothered copying it, I guess it could be replaced by a horizontal line with hooks and some text (a piacere or similar).
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So that type of fermata is much more frequent, good reason to ask for it to be included, right? 
Never mind, maybe it’s not worth it, but my intention is to create my Urtext edition, for that reason I would like to include it.
It’s not frequently used any more because composers in the 19th century got much more specific with tempo markings.
Try to add a Slur, and use the Text tool and type this: •
(“•” U+2022 Bullet Unicode Character)
In Engrave mode you can position the bullet • below the Slur being added.
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Ah, ok. Handwritten or engraved scores? My copy of Behind Bars makes no mention of this, though of course that is not to say it doesn’t exist, I would just be curious what other modern editions have done in this context - if they re-create it literally or equivocally. And if players and conductors have an obvious and different interpretation upon seeing it as opposed to the normal one. (I am not disregarding the value in re-creating old scores literally, just curious.)
That’s great!
As I mentioned above, I’ve seen it frequently in Mozart operas and I recently arranged a Rossini opera which featured it. The edition I worked from had done what Nordine did (obviously set in Finale). I didn’t bother with it, as it was often either superfluous or could indeed be expressed with cadenza or a piacere.
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This is a beautiful solution, bravo!
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It worked very well!!
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