Tone Cluster Support

• Oct 23, 2011 - 17:17

There is currently no Tone Cluster support in MuseScore.

This has come to my attention via this forum thread: http://musescore.org/en/node/13156

If we are to be able to enter the music of such composers as Henry Cowell into MuseScore, then tone cluster support is essential.

You can find more information on Tone Clusters here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_cluster

I am posting here as a preamble to opening a feature issue.

Please make your views known.

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• Oct 23, 2011 - 19:33

There are probably as many different ways to notate clusters as there are people notating them, but yeah, MuseScore should try to provide some options here. Gardner Read shows about two dozen different examples in his seminal reference on notation; most are variations on the Cowell notation shown in the Wikipedia article you referenced above.

I can't say that the notation shown below is particularly common in my experience, but FWIW, the US MPA guidelines say the following:

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