It takes up space in the 4/4 bar without disrupting the flow. Is there a way to do it with the parenthesis enclosing the clef and note together?
You could create a Playing technique and drag that to the right position in Engrave mode.
I scaled the clef and notehead down to 66.66%. The parentheses glyphs are in the Notehead category, you have to adjust their Y offset a bit and increase their scale (these are at 225%). Finally, I also increased the X offset of the notehead glyph to move it a bit further from the clef. You can play around with those values.
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Not sure this is the best way.
I believe this is sort of outside standard notation conventions and as such unknown to Dorico. You can enter the ( clef note ) as text.
- In Write mode. Select a place. Meny choice Write. Create Text. Default text.
- In the font selection dialogue: select as example Bravura
- Enter the (
- Enter the unicode marker for the clef and note. As I am on a Mac I copy from the Font Book application (I tend to remember there’s something similar on Win).
- Enter the )
- In Engrave mode, move the text to the position you want.
Following on from @ghellquist you can otherwise use the right-click Insert music text when using Shift-X (adding text) to add in music symbols.
Somewhere in that bar, Shift-X, type in your parenthesis ( then right-click, click on Insert music text
Search for gClef and enter it in
Right-click again, Insert music text, search for metNoteQuarterUp, enter it in
Then finish with your right parenthesis. Kern if you need to.
Position in Engrave mode
I find the search reasonably good when looking for music symbols, type in what you are looking for and options appear underneath. You would not automatically know to start with “met…” for your crochet/quarter note, but searching with possible words seems to find what I want generally. In this instance I think I put in “clef” and “quarter”.
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You can also start by looking at the category list and picking the one that seems appropriate. Then the symbols in that category will be displayed, and you can pick the one you want without needing to know its actual name.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is it supposed to mean? A G-clef in that position does put the note G on the second line from the bottom, making it a Treble Clef. I don’t see what it else it could mean, so why bother?!? And why is the second C-flat in parentheses? I would just omit the clef and the note, unless there’s some particular reason for them.
I’m pretty sure that’s Saariaho’s Cendres, and the parenthetical G is showing the sounding pitch from the trill between the natural harmonic and regular note Eb2 in the cello (trill between played Eb2 and lightly touching Eb2 on the C string to get a touch-minor-third harmonic sounding G4). It is quite common to show the sounding pitch of a harmonic with a small parenthetical notehead.
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Jesper