Crescendos and Dynamics

[bburman]

Probably an obvious question, but it’s not explained very well in the manual.

I see how to create the hairpin for a crescendo with the popover menu, but 2 problems: 1) it’s putting the hairpin over the note where it starts, when clearly it has to go under it, and 2) once it’s there, how do I extend it to the full length of the passage over which it occurs. Just having a little < on one note doesn’t help much.

Another problem is with adding dynamics. For example (see attachment), I can’t for the life of me add an mp dynamic under the bottom bass line, it always jumps to the stave over it.

[Derrek]

Dorico follows traditional practice putting dynamics above vocal parts. I would expect dynamics to go below instrumental parts, and they do.

[bburman]

Strange, because in the Dorico manual itself, there is an example with dynamics and crescendos below the staves (see attachment). I would expect there must be an option to determine the placement, above or below. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen dynamics above the staff, but apparently that is the norm in vocal music, so as not to interfere with the lyrics. I still can’t figure out how to stretch out the crescendo lines though.

[MarcLarcher]

You can force dynamics under the staff using their properties (Dynamics — placement — below)

[dspreadbury]

To make hairpins longer, select them and type Shift+Alt+right arrow, which extends them by the selected rhythmic grid value.

[steveparker]

Also, you can select a range of notes before you invoke the popover.