Triple-dotted notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_note#Triple_dotting
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Not currently, you will have to fake it by adding a dot from the Symbols palette.
What use do you have for this? I'm just curious.
In reply to What use do you have for by xavierjazz
I can think of a few songs that have triple dots, such as Bruckner's Symphony No. 8.
In reply to I can think of a few songs by LuuBluum
I love that song!
See also #69751: add triple and maybe even quadruple augmention dots
Sorry I have taken so long to respond. A friend and I composed and performed a piece for flute and piano a few months back, but it was all on paper and sort of hasty. He finished writing his part out and I wrote mine. I need to put them together for him and I figured that might as well be the first thing I did with MuseScore. I figured out that while I had notated triple-dotted half notes, I had played them quadruple-dotted! The triple-dotted quarter notes were correct, though. I haven't used your suggestions yet, just getting all the notes down so it sounds right to start off, and trying to juggle other projects. But thank you!
In reply to Sorry I have taken so long to by Eliza Done
A triple-dotted half note would be equal to:
a half note + a quarter note + a eighth note + a sixteenth note.
Am I right? ???
In reply to A triple-dotted half note by jotape1960
Yes.
In reply to Yes. by LuuBluum
A very rare case.
Is it absolutely necessary? ???
I mean, if I wanted something like this from some specific musicians group, Would I need to write it that way? ???
I prefer use tied notes. Just my humble opinion.
In reply to A very rare case. Is it by jotape1960
Absolutely. A triple dotted note is something most musicians see maybe once or twice in a lifetime. The exact same rhythm written using ties is something we see probably many times a day every single day of our lives. It is virtually always better to write rhythms the way people are accustomed to seeing them, and that means, not using triplet dtos - or even double dots, really.
I agree with the sentiment that triple-dotted notes are not particularly readable, and a low priority for Musescore, but I think they are not as rare as you suggest. They occur (badly printed!) in the Polonaise from Arensky's suite no. 2 for two pianos, and also (as I remember; too big to search) in the vocal score of Carmen, both of which I am actively using at the moment.
People say this is a rare occurrence, but I'm trying to transcribe a song that starts notes on the second 16th of every measure. This requires a triple dot on nearly every bass clef note.
In reply to People say this is a rare… by Ethan Cannoy
The rhythm isn't what's rare; it's the choice to notate it with a triple dot that is. The vast majority of publishers would not use a triple dot but instead a dotted eighth tied to a dotted half to indicate this.
In any case, in the years since this thread was started, support for triple dots has already been added. Just go to Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts to define a shortcut for it.