Re: Ending slur combined with decresc on single note

[David Kastrup]

Garrett Fitzgerald <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm re-setting my wife's part of Grainger's "Irish Tune from County
> Derry", because it doesn't have the authentic English-language tempo
> and dynamic instructions. Everything went well (I think) until the
> last measure, where a slur terminates on a fermata that decrescendoes
> from p to ppp. As a first attempt at this, I used
>
> d4( | << d1)\fermata \\ { s4\p\> s8 s s s s s\ppp } >>
>
> which renders the decrescendo well, but warns me of an unterminated
> slur. Putting the ending slur outside the brackets didn't work either,
> obviously. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to render this
> properly? Thanks.

Try removing \\ here.  I does not appear that the chosen constructs
really need separate voices.

-- 
David Kastrup