Tremolo with Feathered Beam
Recently I have been writing a violin piece with piano accompaniment, and I came up with a usage of feathered tremolo in the Inter, which has yet to be implemented to my knowledge. If it happens to be an existing feature, please let me know. Thank you.
For your information, feathered tremolo is a type of tremolo where the frequency changes gradually throughout the process. Please refer to the following for a clearer idea of the ornament. ( The one in the middle )
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Comments
so like the combination of a 2 note tremolo and a glissando?
In reply to so like the combination of a by Jojo-Schmitz
Not really, it is like a tremolo which starts with a beam of quaver, then the beam gets more and more rapid to that of semiquaver or even a higher tier one, or vice versa. Basically, it is the combination of tremolos of different beams with the frequency of beam in order. Much like an ordinary one under tempo change.
In reply to Not really, it is like a by togetoge2000
ah, so a tremolo that speeds up or down (that feather you Show seems to indicate to go down in speed, not up)
Looks to be a decent idea.
Observation: Musescore doesn't seem to implement playback of feathered beams for me; this probably has something to do with the lack of rit. and acc., so maybe this could be implemented somehow when those are implemented properly. Speaking of which, a trem rit. or acc. above a tremolo/between the notes would probably be interpreted the same way...
Just in case it isn't obvious: MuseScore *does* support feather beams in general. Just not feathered tremolo beams. Seems the Beam Properties palette if you haven't discovered the feathering featuring yet.
That said, I can fake the above picture by creating an ordinary feathered beam then using the Inspector to move the stems and noteheads away from the beam: You'd have to do some trickery to get things right rhythmically since these wouldn't be true tremolo, but you are probably already doing that sort of thing as it is.
Another possibility is to create a normal tremolo, hide the actual tremolo marking, then add an appropriate symbol from the Symbols palette if you can find one. Or just a graphic you create yourself (possibly by taking a screenshot of a regular feather beam, using the Image Capture tool.