Microtones in Key Signatures
Submitted by HosAdeeb on August 16, 2009 - 10:16pm.
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I had expressed my wish for this before, but maybe if I insist ...
Well, my point is: sometimes we use the occasional microtonal accidental for the odd measure or two, but most often we tend to modulate to a wholely different mode/key, so we need the ability to incorporate microtonal accidentals in a key signature. Even better, it is very useful for us to be able to incorporate just any form of accidental in any given key signature; so, for example, one very often used mode uses B natural, E half-flat and A flat.
On the other hand, this would also entail the possibilty of putting a microtonal accidental within parenthises; so, it might be a good idea to simply put a pair of parentises as a separate option to be added to any accidenat, instead of the current content of the accidental palette.
Another dream of mine, is "winged" repeats; they are that much easier to spot and follow. I suppose the brackets used for staves could just be recycled for that purpose...
But thanks for all the efforts, and congratulations for the release of 0.9.5.
Hosam Adeeb Nashed
I was contemplating the possibility of writing a plugin that would apply a microtonal scheme on a set of selected measure. The idea is to save time instead of using the Tuning plugin for each note with a half-flat.
I suppose I would be using qtscript for that, but where can I get insight into the programme's data structures?
Thanks.
Hosam Adeeb Nashed
Unfortunately, you don't have access to selection in the plugin framework (yet?)
The only documentation for plugin is here + the code of the already existing plugin.
I too would like to be able to write microtonal / maqam music.
I have just tried the microtune plugin on my Mac (OSX 10.6.4)
(Micro-interval tuning)
http://musescore.org/en/project/microtune
I can notate in microtones, but the MIDI playback only does equal temperament semi-tones.
Regards,
You have to add the accidentals to the music and then go to Plugins > Microtonal tunings which modifies the pitch for all the notes with accidentals. Now these notes will playback as you defined them in the Micro-tonal tunings dialog.