Single-Note Hairpins/Messa di Voce
I have been digging through the forums, but please forgive me if I missed something.
MuseScore has been such an incredible and powerful tool, but an issue I keep running into is the inability to easily add single-note hairpins that auto-scale to their attached note. From transcribing Schumann (Fantasiestucke Op. 73) to engraving some commissions by contemporary composers, they often like to notate this kind of "swell" on a single note when writing for woodwinds. The best solution I have found, without messing with hidden voices, is to manually add both a crescendo and a descrendo and then eyeball the sizes to try to make it look acceptable. I would think, with no programming background, that this could be an easy thing to add to the dynamics palette. Would this be possible?
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You can add "Messa di voce" symbol from Master palette (it is under Symbols - Dynamics).
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Or, I think better, You can select note, add crescendo, select endpoint, Shift + Left move it left, select note again, add diminuendo, select startpoint, Shift + Right to move it right, and they will connect together automagically.
(When You add cresc / dim, endpoint is already selected, so after adding cresc, you can Shift + Left directly)