Crescendo Hairpins

• Nov 30, 2009 - 00:13

Hi,

I have found that most of the dynamic and articulation marks I have added to my score are reflected in the playback, but the crescendo hairpins do not seem to result in actual crescendi during playback. Can anyone suggest what I can do to get the crescendi to play back?

Sincerely,
Neil


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In reply to by David Bolton

I am still feeling my way through digital music composition, having now experience with Garageband, Musescore and Sebilius.

In Musescore playbacks I do not hear the effects of a hairpin or a slur (although I do hear the effect of a tie). So I saved the Musescore "test" file using a .mid extension and imported it into Garageband. As in Musescore, Garageband's playback didi not seem to sound these two articulations, and neither the hairpin nor slur notation appeared. I then downloaded a demo version of Sebilius and found that its playback also doesn't seem to register a slur or hairpin.

First question: In today's technology, is it correct to say that the only way to capture the effect of a slur or hairpin is by recording the playing of an instrument (e.g., piano) or a digital MIDI instrument? And in these two instances, music notation resulting from these music feeds (inputs in Musescore or Sebilius, for example) would not display a slur symbol or a hairpin symbol-right (unless subsequently entered manually)?

Second question: Is there any automated way (aot a person sitting at a piano playing Musescore-notated sheet music) to playback music notation from Musescore (or Sebilius or other music notation software) that will capture the sound changes anticipated by a slur or hairpin?

Thanks.
Alex

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