Kodaly Hand Sign

Hi Everyone,

can anyone taught me how to make music with Hand Sign Notation, i have heard that SMUFL have these characters in it.

regards

Indeed, SMuFL does include the Kodály hand signs, which you can find here.

You have a couple of options for how to include these in a Dorico project. One option would be to create playing techniques in Engrave > Playing Techniques using these symbols, and then add them to the music that way; another would be to add them as Shift+X text items (or Shift+Alt+X system text items if you want them to appear in every staff), setting the font style to ‘Music text’ for the characters you copy and paste from the above page.

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thanks for helping me out Daniel, how to make the hand sign appear on top of the staff? i am a visual learner … i might need visual guidance :frowning: … thank you so much.

If you define your own playing technique using the Engrave > Playing Techniques dialog, you can then simply add it to whichever staff on which you want it to appear.

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Thank you so much!! will get back here to show the result …

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Thank you again Daniel, i have managed this far
is there any way for me to align the bottom staff to the right end ??

Layout Options > Note Spacing > justify final system (it’s the final option in that dialog).

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brilliant!! thank you pianoleo …

Hello, Daniel, I cannot figure out how to update your link.
The Kodály hand signs are now at latest tables kodaly-hand-signs.html
Thank you.

Welcome to the Dorico forum @mnmleung.

This is the current URL:

Kodaly

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