Vertically aligned diagonal hairpin heads
Usually the heads of diagonal crescendo / decrescendo hairpins are vertically aligned (red lines for reference) :
But diagonal hairpins in MuseScore seems like rotated normal hairpins, so the heads are not aligned:
It would be great to add an option to toggle the behavior (aligned / rotated).
Comments
FWIW, I can't say I've ever seen angled hairpin notation like that. The real problem I see is that a musician would have no idea of the starting and ending dynamics.
In reply to FWIW, I can't say I've ever… by bobjp
FWIW, Elaine Gould has advice on them. I dont have Behind Bars here, but someone posted the relevant page in a Finale forum at https://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6&m=352762 (scroll down to see the image)(*). However, her advice "Avoid steep gradients if possible" would make the vertical alignment requested here less of a necessity.
H.M.
(*) I'll replace it with my own image when I'm home.
In reply to FWIW, Elaine Gould has… by hmmueller
It's hard to tell from the image there because the page is curved (!), but Gould's examples are actually pretty much just like ours - the end points are angled are well. And a quick check of the literature (e.g., Romantic era piano music) suggests it's pretty common. So offhand, I am not really a reason to change the default here, although ultimately it's not my decision.
On the other hand, since I know these are just drawn as lines, it does seem it would be simple enough to provide a control for this, whether just a checkbox to toggle between the two common options or actual handles on the ends so you could have whatever lengths you wanted.
In reply to It's hard to tell from the… by Marc Sabatella
I'm not calling for changing the default, since the rotated style is also common (I may overstated it by saying "usually", but it still holds that some of the scores align hairpin heads). Either providing an option or adding control handles on individual ends would be great.
"Usually the heads..." I would say that these are unusual. If you find examples in many different pieces from different publishers from different eras then they could be described as usual.