Igor Engraver Manual

CHAPTER 2
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click on the slur and press backspace) and create a slur that includes all of the
notes. Your changes should result in the following figure:
Maybe the piece seems does not entirely complete. Therefore you are now going
to create an ending, as the one below. This is done in the following manner: To
enter rests, choose a note value and press Space instead of Enter. Insert the first
note of the last group. Press some keys to insert a dynamic marking. Press Alt-3
after having inserted one note to make that note the first note of a triplet. (This
can also be done afterwards by selecting some notes and then pressing Alt-3. Alt-5
creates a quintuplet, and so on. Alt-1 brings up a window in which you can make
several changes to tuplets.) When you have completed the triplet, Igor Engraver
will close the triplet for you.
Enter the last chord, and perhaps a fermata marking, which can be accessed from
the Attachments tool on the Tools Palette.
Naturally, Igor Engraver lets you work with quarter-tones. In this example, first
delete the lowest of the three ties. This can be done either by Right-clicking the
tie and selecting Delete from the contextual menu that appears or by clicking
and then pressing the Backspace key. Next, select the lowest note of one of the
notes (by pressing the left or right arrow key while holding down the Alt key,