Quarter Tone Glissando

simjamphi · October 13, 2020, 6:25am

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to represent a glissando over 8 beats that covers a semitone from a quarter tone flat to a quarter tone sharp. At the moment I have this

But it isn’t what I want. This notation implies that the gliss happens in the first 4 beats and then stays on the quarter tone sharp for the following 4 beats. Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks,

Simon

Queb · October 13, 2020, 7:19am

Put an appoggiature on the note following the gliss as an end note, bring the colour opacity of the 2nd note of the gliss to 0 and extend the gliss line manually. If you want to keep the 2nd note showing for rhythmical clarity, put in parentheses and add a new gliss from that note to the following appoggiature

simjamphi · October 14, 2020, 2:29pm

Thanks Québ - I couldn’t quite get it how you suggested, but your method led me to another solution. Thanks very much.

Lillie_Harris · October 14, 2020, 2:40pm

You can input glissando lines between non-adjacent notes, so you could make the notes that span the barline just a minim then either add crotchet notes for the other half and make a headless notehead set for them, or remove the rests (this might require spacing adjustments in the part).