Louder and shorter notes
I wish to emphasise certain notes to produce staccato AND be louder than the neighbouring notes.
So I tried in turn, in conjunction with a staccato dot, a "marcato", "tenuto", "tenuto staccato" and finally "accent above", but on playback, all of these made the notes louder but got rid of my staccato? Suggestions please?
Comments
Marcato is both louder and shorter; you don't need a staccato as well.
In reply to Marcato is both louder and… by Marc Sabatella
Not true I'm afraid on playback - try it out - the marcato note is pretty much full length.
In reply to Not true I'm afraid on… by Ali Wood
It's not full - try removing the staccato from the surrounding notes in measure 1 and you can clearly hear the different. Marcato is often interpreted as "fat" - louder and shorter, but not as short as staccato. If you want literally as short as staccato but also louder, the combined accent-staccato should do that but apparently doesn't in your score. That seems to be in part because you've changed the playback sound to the non-expr version of the bassoon sound. Don't do that unless the instrument is truly incapable of single note dynamics - otherwise you should always use the expr sounds (which are the defaults). It seems you may have altered other settings, though, and I'm not sure what. Anyhow, to correct this, go to Staff/Part Properties and use Change Instrument to set the instrument back to Bass (thus resetting the customizations you made), then go to the Mixert and make the playback sound Basson Expr (assuming bassoon really is the sound you want. Then the accent-staccato works normally.