I have a two-handed harp tremolo where I need one stem to flip the opposite direction as the other, but I can’t flip it without the other one flipping as well. Is there a way around this?
TIA
Please post an excerpt from your Dorico file that shows the situation.
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I need the first note in each tremolo to be down stem, but can’t flip it without flipping the second note. There’s not reason tremolos have to have the same stem direction.
Actually there is one.
This notation is s synonym of
Do you really want this – rather ugly appearance ?
Of course you can flip/move the stems in Engrave Mode.
The first picture uses an outdated convention and is in any case irrelevant to the need for different stem directions when notating a two-handed harp tremolo. I did say what it was for already.
I don’t recall proposing anything like the second picture, but if that’s how Dorico does it then I hope it gets fixed.
Putting it on different staves is not ideal.
… but is (I think) quite common in harp parts.
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A harp has (almost) the range of a piano and a grand staff is the usual notation.
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If this is what you want:
Enter the tremolo as normal
Enter two C’s in a second voice
Select the stems of the original two C’s and hide their noteheads and stems in Engrave mode
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Looks pretty odd though.
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I agree!
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Yes, it looks weird because Dorico does not know how to draw it apparently. The slashes should be lowered quite a bit. I’ll have to lower them manually to have correct harp notation.
No offense but why do you want to reinvent the wheel?
Any harpist who is able to play this kind of bisbigliando knows how to perform it regardless of the notation.
I’m not reinventing the wheel and the context of what comes before and after affects the decision. I know exceptionally well how to notate harp music.
Also, this is not a bisbigliando.