When I add a trill from the ornaments popover saying, for instance,
tr M2 over the note E4, it puts the accidental (a sharp) above the tr. Is there a way to set that so that accidentals associated with trills are to the right of the tr instead? Putting them above seems reminiscent of 17th century practice, and it also takes up a lot of vertical space. I’m thinking there may be an option somewhere to make that the default.
Select the trill, and adjust the interval placement option.
In Library → Engraving Options, under Ornaments → Trill Interval.
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I love it. I would have hunted for that for a month before finding it.
There’s one problem with it, but I suppose I can’t do anything about it. I like both having (for instance) tr # and the note followed by (#) in the staff, which I think is easier for the player to understand when the going gets heavy, as it is in this rather hairy passage I’m working on. In the option window (which is different in Dorico 6.1.10 than what I see above, i.e. it has actual pictures to click on) there are two rows and both can be selected, but both don’t show.
At least I know it’s possible to put the accidental to the side of the trill rather than above, which is a huge improvement.
I’ll decide later which one I want to stick with (when I get to engraving).
A supplementary question: Is there a symbol for a downward trill? In my score I wrote (by hand) a tr followed by a little down arrow on an Eb. In this particular case, I realize with 59 years of perspective that it’s probably close to impossible given that there’s also a D grace note before it and at the beginning of the trill (which lasts 10 slow beats) I ask the flutist to also hum the F4 above the trilled note. In performance he somehow managed to actually do it, although I remember his enhancing the sound with a loud gasp when it was over.
The picture above is from the Properties panel, where you can override settings for an individual trill. Engraving Options lets you set global options for your project.
“Position of interval relative to trill” only has an effect if you have selected “Accidental” or “Hollywood style” for “Trill interval appearance”. If you select “Auxiliary note”, then there’s nothing to position relative to the trill, just the auxiliary note on the staff.
A grace note D followed by a downward trill Eb-D sounds to me just like a normal half step trill on D (D-Eb-D-Eb…).
If you want to have the player start ahead of the beat, maybe one of these?
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