Changing individual slurs to flat slurs

Although they are not often used as standard, some publishers use flat slurs in order to reduce the vertical space occupied by slurs. You can change individual slurs to flat slurs.

Short slurs, that is, slurs between only a few notes, can look odd as flat slurs, so it may not be appropriate to select the flat curvature style project-wide. However, it would likewise be unusual only to use flat slurs once or twice in a project.

Note

We recommend that you avoid changing the curvature style for only one or two slurs in a project.

Procedure

  1. Select the slurs whose curvature style you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Curvature style in the Slurs group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:

    • Normal (curved)

    • Flat

Result

The curvature style of the selected slurs is changed.