Swell hairpin dynamics

• Apr 9, 2022 - 03:28

Currently in Musescore it is incredibly tedious to add swell hairpin dynamics as it requires using separate voices with hidden rests to attach both a crescendo and decrescendo to a sustained note. This also requires a ton of manual editing as this doesn't work across parts. It would be wonderful if this was implemented as a separate line type, this is how both Dorico and Sibelius do it. Given that this is such a common notation, especially in more contemporary classical and film music, I really don't understand why it isn't in Musescore already.

I've attached an example of a swell dynamic hairpin stolen from the Dorico forums, this is a complex example with a dynamic marking in the middle of the swell but the simple swell is much more common.

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Ewald Quintet swell.pdf 10.36 KB

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