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I should also mention that if you plan to draw them by hand with the line tool, you should wait till everything else is set, or the bits will come apart a little and have to be adjusted every time you change the page layout.
Or, you could use the slur tool to make rounded ones, which is the easiest way, if confusing to the reader.
You can draw horizontal brackets using the smart shapes palette. Vertical smart brackets are not in Finale (at least not through F2004, which what I’m currently using), but there is a straight vertical bracket (like you’d use for flat chords) in the Engraver TextH font.
If you want an angled placing bracket, your best bet would be to open the shape designer and draw a horizontal bracket there. When you save it as a shape it becomes a vector object so you can warp and change the angle.
Or, you can just draw them by hand, which is what I usually do when I can’t make a horizontal bracket work. If you zoom the view to 200 or 400% it’s pretty easy to make things line up.
But no font per se can give you angle brackets that you can adjust, unfortunately.
Incidentally, Sam, if you’ve got an old version of Finale that doesn’t have the Engraver fonts, there’s a font pack download on the makemusic website.
There are horizontal brackets in the smart shapes and vertical ones in the Engravier FontH (make an articulation metatool for these to save time).
You don’t really need the Salzedo font unless you need the raising loopy hairpin things and the unique muffle symbols found only in his work.
Otherwise, what you need is in finale. You’ll find the plus sign for thumb muffles in the articulations palette. The standard muffle is a capital P in the Tamburo font. Glisses are in the smart shapes, and you can adjust the spacing of the wavy line from the gliss list (duplicate first or your glisses will change, too) to make the pdlt line. Chord rolls, diamonds for lever changes, and harmonics circles are in the articulations palette.
Pedal diagram pieces and some other harp stuff are in the Engraver FontH (h is for harp).
What else are you looking for?
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This varies from state to state.
It was not written for harpsichord, but for violin. It’s from the sonatas, Op. 9, no. 5. I believe the original key is A major, but I’d have to go dig it out to check. Salzedo’s version is based heavily on the most popular keyboard realization of the accompaniment during his day.
Hello, Vicente.
> i would recomend you a camac lever. between L&H ,salvi or camac. they have been
producing levers harps long before the other two. and a levr harp is different than a pedal.
Just for what it’s worth, Lyon and Healy introduced the troubadour lever harp back in the
60’s, before Camac was around.
If you don’t already have a harp, you may find it easier to play a relatively low headed floor
harp like a Dusty Strings or a Thormahlen than a pedal harp, because you don’t have to raise
your arms so high to play in the middle of the strings.
I believe Lynn Aspnes, a wonderful teacher, is also planning to do a harp week this summer
in Georgia, although I don’t know any details about it.
Well, I have my students buy their music, because they need to have their own copies and
their own marked spots (everyone’s trouble spots are different). The only point to “lending
out” music would be to have students make xeroxed copies for their own use, which of
course is illegal.
If I have students who can’t afford Harp Olympics, then I work either with what they got
with their harp (if they bought one), or with something like the Fun from the First books
and the single Betty Paret pieces, which everyone can afford.
