Re: Placement of dynamic hairpins under chords with seconds

[Knute Snortum]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 10:50 AM Timothy Lanfear <timothy@lanfear.me> wrote:
>
> On 07/08/2021 14:33, Knute Snortum wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 12:12 AM Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> At 11:59 06/08/2021 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote:
> >>> I have a minor quibble. If you have a dynamic hairpin under a chord
> >>> with a second interval, the hairpin extends a little to the left (to
> >>> cover the whole chord?)  I think it should only extend to the stem.
> >>> I'm not an expert in engraving but the sheet music I've seen seems
> >>> to back this up. What do you guys think?
> >> Does Elaine Gould count as a "guy"? She says "A hairpin should start
> >> at the first relevant notehead (not accidental) and end with the
> >> following notehead or at the first rest thereafter. Good practice is
> >> to start the hairpin on the left-hand edge of the note and to finish
> >> it on the right-hand edge of a note" (Behind Bars, p. 104). She
> >> doesn't include examples of what she calls "adjacent-note chords",
> >> but her examples of notes with stems up show the hairpins starting at
> >> the left of the first notehead, not the stem. If you put \stemUp into
> >> your second example, you will see that Lilypond follows this principle.
> >>
> >> Brian Barker
> > Thanks for your insight into this.  I guess LilyPond is "doing the
> > standard thing," as usual. Hairpins to the left it is!
>
> Version 2.23 has a new feature to configure the start and end alignment
> of hairpins.
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#dynamics
> in the Selected Snippets section.
>
>
> --
> Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
>

Thanks!

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Knute Snortum