I’ve got a big cluster chord and I want to select only half of it – keep the same pitches in the selected section, but not select and copy the whole chord. How might I do that?
I think your best option is to zoom in, then selecting each note with the mouse cursor, at the same time having the cmd (ctrl) key held down.
Yes, that worked, though not quick. I found another way of doing it, though not any quicker. I copied the whole big chord and deleted the notes I didn’t want. I was surprised to see that when I deleted the note at the bottom of the chord Dorico didn’t highlight the note just above it. If that were true deleting would have gone faster.
Marquee select is almost definitely the quickest way:
I posted this question because I drew a box around the dotted half notes in my original question and it selected the whole chord, no matter how big or small the box was. After your reply I tried drawing the box around quarter note chords, half note chords, eighth note chords, whole note chords, and even the case with an eighth tied to a half. In each one I could select part of the chord. But in that dotted half chord drawing a box around part of the chord selected the whole chord. Weird.
I’m not in front of it right now, but if wouldn’t surprise me if the augmentation dots are all linked, meaning that selecting one of them selects all the noteheads.
Trying this now. With dotted halves I can selectively select top/bottom notes or notes on either side of the stem. But it takes a bit of practice, not to mention a bit of zooming!
It looks to me (also now sitting at my desk) as though it is the dots that are the problem - if you can steer to the left of them it’s possible to select reasonably predictably.
I tried selecting using a box while avoiding the dots and it worked. I see also why the augmentation dots are linked. I was taught that there needs to be one dot per notehead. But this is a case where there are 14 noteheads and room for only 8 dots. I would not want to see what it would look like with another six dots.
