Re: simultaneous use of "long term" and "short term" crescendo/descrescendo

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:

> On 22-Oct-05, at 10:08 AM, Bart Diels wrote:
>
> > I would like to use "long term" and "short term" crescendos and 
> > decrescendos
> > simultaneously, but I cannot find out how to.
> >
> > What I am trying to get, apart from those two 
> > crescendo-descrescendos, is a
> > long underlying crescendo form a to a. How can that be achieved?
>
>
> I would print _\markup{ \italic \bold cresc }  in addition to the 
> hairpin \< \>.  If you want to print two hairpins at once, I think 
> you'd need to fake it with an extra invisible staff or something weird 
> like that.

Two Voice contexts in the same stave should work well:

\version "2.6.0"

\new Staff \relative c' {
 c d e f |
 << {g \< f e \! \> d \! } \\
   {\override DynamicLineSpanner #'padding = #4 \cresc s2.  \endcresc s4 }
 >>
 c1
}


  /Mats