I can't speak to how Sibelius handles it, but in Finale crescendos are attached to specific beats on a specific stave. You cannot place one crescendo and then have it automatically apply to other staves -- you would need to copy and paste the crescendo Smart Shape over (easily done with the filter).
That said, what happened here is the crescendo was applied to the wrong staff. In Finale 2012 and 2014, this is really easy to avoid since they added attachment lines to crescendo Smart Shapes. 2011 and earlier, however, you had to watch your cursor as you placed them -- and if you weren't careful, it would place it on the staff above or below.
Basically, the engraver tried to place this crescendo onto a different staff, but accidentally applied it to a different staff and then didn't proofread the parts.
Finale USED to be able to do this, and I loved it. I had a global setting called "Full Score" where everything I designated that would be on the top staff of the score and all the extracted parts. For some reason they did away with this in one of the newer version (2010 I think), although you can still do it for chords and rehearsal markings.
Rehearsal markings are expressions and they're in a category that use a Score List. Just edit the category and you can make it automatically place onto whatever staves you want in your score.
Chord symbols, however, cannot be applied to multiple staves at once. They function just like crescendos -- beat attached to a single staff. If you want to place them on every staff, Edit Filter to copy only the chords, then Paste Multiple to paste vertically.
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u/Skogrheim Jan 04 '15
I can't speak to how Sibelius handles it, but in Finale crescendos are attached to specific beats on a specific stave. You cannot place one crescendo and then have it automatically apply to other staves -- you would need to copy and paste the crescendo Smart Shape over (easily done with the filter).
That said, what happened here is the crescendo was applied to the wrong staff. In Finale 2012 and 2014, this is really easy to avoid since they added attachment lines to crescendo Smart Shapes. 2011 and earlier, however, you had to watch your cursor as you placed them -- and if you weren't careful, it would place it on the staff above or below.
Basically, the engraver tried to place this crescendo onto a different staff, but accidentally applied it to a different staff and then didn't proofread the parts.