Trill signs on the timpani and the instruments ??

Dorico
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As is well known, solo instruments trill differently from the timpani. The Timpani typical of course only with the same notes. Is there a basic setting where I can notate the timpani trills without auxiliary notes and the others with, without having to edit each trill on the timpani individually. So to speak a special trill only for the timpani. Maybe this question is a bit stupid but I just noticed it while working with these trills.
Thanks …
Eggi

2

You should find that if you have a unison trill, as you would write on the timpani, it won’t show you an auxiliary note anyway, by default.

3

I understand the argument, that’s right. But when I write a trill into the timpani, it is not automatically a “unison trill”, or ?? because I have chosen the trill setting for the score with auxiliary notes. For the timpanist it is, but not for Dorico. It shows me the interval, unless I change the interval to “unisono” afterwards …then the auxiliary note disappears. That was my question… I’m sorry

4

Timpani don’t trill, they roll (single note tremolo). Unless you want to reproduce old, obsolete notation, I’d suggest you use the modern notation - a 3 stroke tremolo.

5

The old notation had the nice property of making a clear distinction between a measured tremolo and an unmeasured roll notated as tr.

6

Thanks for the ideas. I don’t want to prolong the discussion unnecessarily. The notation for the timpani with trill or tremolo is used very differently. For example, Dvorak with trill, etc.

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My wish for Dorico would be to generally exclude auxiliary notes for the timpani. Nothing more…
See here:
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Dorico nevertheless remains my preferred program.
Thanks

7

In case you haven’t already come across this for now, you can change the interval of trills after you’ve input them, so you could change your timpani trills to have a “perfect 1” [unison] interval.

8

Lillie, is there anything that can be typed into the Shift+O popover that results in a unison?

9

I was just checking that this morning - not currently, but it’s been raised within the team :slight_smile:

10

Thank you :slight_smile:

11

Thank you both. Even small things can help the program.
Eggi