Changing the intervals of ornaments

You can change the intervals of ornaments, both above and below the notated pitch, to indicate which pitches are played in the ornament. The intervals of ornaments are indicated by accidentals.

For some ornaments, you can only change the interval in one direction. For example, you can only change the interval above short trills and below mordents.

1. Select the ornaments whose intervals you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
2. In the Properties panel, activate the appropriate properties for the selected ornaments in the Ornaments group:

   • Interval above

   • Interval below

   For trills, activate Interval in the Trills group of the Properties panel.

3. Change the value in the value field in any of the following ways:

   • Enter a value into the value field.

   • Click the arrows beside the value field.

Result

The properties change the interval of the selected ornaments in the following ways:

• 0 or 4 and above shows no accidental.

• 1 shows a flat.

• 2 shows a natural.

• 3 shows a sharp.

Note

• Some ornaments do not show accidentals either above or below, depending on their type.

• You can change the position of ornament accidentals relative to all trills project-wide on the Ornaments page in Engrave > Engraving Options.