Irish Roll Ornament
I'd like to see the Irish roll ornament added to the articulations and ornaments palette. It's a half-circle symbol that is placed above the note if the stem is down, and conversely, below the note if the stem is up, with the half-circle opening toward the note head. It is a generic symbol used to indicate a roll or a cran, depending on context. It was devised by Breandan Breathnach in his book "Ceol Rince na hEireann" (1963) and is now a part of standard notation for Irish tunes.
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Here's a picture of musical ornaments that includes the (downward opening) Irish roll symbol in the 4th row, 3rd column.
(Found at http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard/abc2-draft.html)
In reply to Here's a picture of musical by turophile
It looks like a fermata without the dot right ? The fermata glyph could be used.
In reply to It looks like a fermata by [DELETED] 5
I suppose the closest existing MuseScore ornament would be the fermata minus the dot. The Irish roll symbol looks to me more lightly struck than a standard fermata, like the fermata over the "u" in the MuseScore logo at the top of this Web page. That is, it's really more of a half-circle, with no thickening of the line in the middle or tapering at the endpoints/cusps. The horizontal span of the Irish roll also seems to me a little narrower than the standard fermata. By the way, how does one use the fermata ornament without the dot?
In reply to I suppose the closest by turophile
You can't use the fermata without the dot for the moment. I was just an idea of implementation.
For the moment, if you really want to have the half circle, you could try to use a slur and shape it accordingly.
In reply to You can't use the fermata by [DELETED] 5
Great idea. I'll give that a try. Thanks!
In reply to Great idea. I'll give that a by turophile
This pair of Unicode symbols looks like a good fit for the Irish roll: 25E0 (upper half circle) and 25E1 (lower half circle).