Adding new SMuFL glyphs to MuseScore notehead library.
Dear all
In SMuFL Version 1.4 there have recently been introduced new glyphs as "Techniques noteheads (U+EE70–U+EE7F)", depicted unter https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/techniques-noteheads.html; the glyphs are yet not available in the notehead palette of MuseScore, which is what this suggestion is about.
The request is to make those four heads available in the shown palette. The glyphs are the fundament of "Rudimental Drumming" notation and used as half and black noteheads (see mscz file).
The benefit of having said four glyphs defined as noteheads in MuseScore opens new horizons to the Rudimental Drummers (and Fifers) to digitize the existing, mostly handwritten literature. This suggestion can be brought into relation with discussions and work on this topic, which was before those four glyphs have been incorporated into SMuFL:
* https://musescore.com/ugehrig/bethania-soloduo-example
* https://musescore.org/en/node/268155
* https://musescore.org/en/node/298682
* https://musescore.org/en/user/3246
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Comments
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/9805
Hmm, do I see it right that these noteheads only ever make sense in drum notation, but never ever in a normal pitched staff? And as such should not show in the noteheads palette or Inspector at all, only in the Edit Drumset dialog (and then also in a drum staff).
There's a problem with those noteheads: they bring along their own stem, always up (and flag, for the "double" ones), so any 'normal' stem, flag or beam would need to get disabled
Workaround is to take them from the master palette. No playback though
Also unclear: whether and how to im- and/or export from/to MusicXML
Had a look at how to do that in MusicXML, but the spec is not clear enough for me.
Thanks for checking anyhow 😃
In reply to Hmm, do I see it right that… by Jojo-Schmitz
Please do not disable the normal stem. This is an additional stem that flags the note as a flam (or a douplé in case of the ministem with flag) I’ll try to find an example to demonstrate the use
Edit: here you see the use of U+EE70 as a flam:
https://musescore.com/ugehrig/bethania-soloduo-example
Dear all, I tried to find the glyphs in the master palette as Jojo-Schmitz suggests in his workaround but I could not find them. What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Oops, didn't intend to toggle that workaround flag... sorry
View > Master palette > Symbols, there search for "swiss"
However, MuseScore up to 3.6.2 doesn't support SMuFL 1.4 and Bravura doesn't have those prior to that. Only the later 3.x nightly builds do, and master (which will become MuseScore 4) has them too.
So indeed there is no workaround for MusesCore 3.6.2 (and no furter 3.x is planned to get released)
In reply to View > Master palette >… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you! I‘ll try the nightly build then until 4.0 is out.
You can also try the artifacts from PR #9000 (needs a GitHub account though)
In reply to Had a look at how to do that… by Leon Vinken
Checked the spec once again, now I think I understand how to do this. There are basically three different ways to specify a non-standard notehead:
1) if the notehead type is a standard shape with the note name as text inside the notehead, encode as a notehead-text element (https://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/musicxml-reference/elements/noteh…)
2) if the notehead type is a non-standard shape listed in https://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/musicxml-reference/data-types/not…, encode as a notehead element with as content the value as found in the notehead-value table.
3) if the notehead type is a non-standard shape not listed in the notehead-value table but with a defined SMuFL notehead glyph, encode as a notehead element with content "other" and an attribute "smufl" specifying the SMuFL canonical glyph name. For the new glyphs, the names would be: swissRudimentsNoteheadBlackFlam, swissRudimentsNoteheadHalfFlam, swissRudimentsNoteheadBlackDouble and swissRudimentsNoteheadHalfDouble (https://w3c.github.io/smufl/releases/1.4/tables/techniques-noteheads.ht…).
So here it boils down to the 3rd method, right?
In reply to So here it boils down to the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Indeed.
In reply to So here it boils down to the… by Jojo-Schmitz
I would agree.
Fixed in branch master, commit 1f1e2bc2a7
Fix #321771: Adding new SMuFL glyphs to MuseScore notehead library
Fixed in branch master, commit 9b4a942854
_Merge pull request #9805 from Jojo-Schmitz/noteheads
[MU4] Fix #321771: Adding new SMuFL glyphs to MuseScore notehead library_
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