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Hiding/Showing or parenthesizing harmonic accidentals
You can show harmonic accidentals in round or square brackets and hide/show accidentals
individually, independently of hiding/showing or parenthesizing accidentals of stopped pitch
notes.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the harmonics whose accidentals you want to hide/show or parenthesize.
2. In the Properties panel, activate Accidental in the Harmonics group.
3. Select one of the following options from the menu:
Hide
Show
Round brackets
Square brackets
RESULT
Accidentals on the selected harmonics are shown, hidden, or shown in round or square brackets.
NOTE
Hiding accidentals does not affect the pitch of notes in playback.
If you are hiding/showing many accidentals, we recommend that you consider changing the
accidental duration rule.
You can assign key commands for different accidental hiding, showing, and parenthesizing
commands on the Key Commands page in Preferences.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
You can also hide/show or parenthesize accidentals on the normal noteheads that indicate the
stopped pitch for articial harmonics shown using diamond noteheads.
RELATED LINKS
Hiding/Showing or parenthesizing accidentals on page 481
Appearances/Styles of harmonics
Both articial and natural harmonics can be notated in different ways. In Dorico SE, it is possible
to indicate the desired sounding pitch, either the stopped or touched pitch, or both stopped and
touched pitches for individual harmonics.
In this documentation we refer to “styles” of articial harmonics, because one articial harmonic
style indicates the use of a different performance technique, and “appearances” of natural
harmonics, as their different appearances do not indicate different performance techniques.
Natural harmonics
Circle above
Shows a harmonic circle symbol on the notehead side of notes. Usually indicates the
desired sounding pitch of the harmonic. Used for natural harmonics on staves that do
not belong to fretted instruments by default, such as violin.
Harmonics
Hiding/Showing or parenthesizing harmonic accidentals
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