Re: Placement of dynamic hairpins under chords with seconds

[Brian Barker]

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