Re: Placement of dynamic hairpins under chords with seconds

[Knute Snortum]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 12:12 AM Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> At 11:59 06/08/2021 -0700, Knute Snortum wrote:
> >I have a minor quibble. If you have a dynamic hairpin under a chord
> >with a second interval, the hairpin extends a little to the left (to
> >cover the whole chord?)  I think it should only extend to the stem.
> >I'm not an expert in engraving but the sheet music I've seen seems
> >to back this up. What do you guys think?
>
> Does Elaine Gould count as a "guy"? She says "A hairpin should start
> at the first relevant notehead (not accidental) and end with the
> following notehead or at the first rest thereafter. Good practice is
> to start the hairpin on the left-hand edge of the note and to finish
> it on the right-hand edge of a note" (Behind Bars, p. 104). She
> doesn't include examples of what she calls "adjacent-note chords",
> but her examples of notes with stems up show the hairpins starting at
> the left of the first notehead, not the stem. If you put \stemUp into
> your second example, you will see that Lilypond follows this principle.
>
> Brian Barker

Thanks for your insight into this.  I guess LilyPond is "doing the
standard thing," as usual. Hairpins to the left it is!