Lachenmann Serynade-style “pedal” notation in Dorico

Hi @mcapdevila1612, and welcome to the Forum.

What you are asking is not very easy achievable. Here my try.

[Edit: see the posts below this, for other methods that dont require a 0-line staff or cutaways etc.. Thanks @jesele ]

You need:

  • a 0-line instrument (see here)
  • an open local time signature for the 0-line staff
  • remove the not needed rest in the 0-line staff
  • some start and end cutaways,
  • hidden noteheads (and just for the dotted note use the notehead color>opacity 0% property, to preserve the dot)
  • some manual beam and secondary beam splits
  • an elision lyric
  • a Pedal line with some added changes to one quarter depressed
  • another pedal line for the last chunk
  • some manual vertical positioning of the pedal lines
  • manual dragging of the o-line staff in engrave mode (to make the whole figure nearer to the piano staff)
  • you can then manually hide the 0-line stave in the system where this figure is not needed (and eventually adjust the inter-system gap globally in Layout Options)

The result is not 100% what you show in your screenshot, but is somehow doable (needs a little work).

I hope it can be helpful.

Result:

Dorico file example:

Lachenmann ped.dorico (1.3 MB)

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