Manual Spacing offset between quavers
Hi, i found old documentation of how to achieve this offset between quavers in older versions of musescore, but none for M4. Since the Inspector has since been overhauled, i am clueless. In the properties Tab you can manually offset the heads and stems, but the beam does not have said feature. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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i have the above and want it to look like my handdrawn verson below (basically just move the orange voice a nod to the right)
In reply to here is a visual… by profsmog
What is this piece of music (a title, a link, an image, a pdf?) and for which instrument?
In reply to What is this music (a title,… by cadiz1
this is a fugue in E-Major for Keyboard instrument
In reply to this is a fugue in E-Major… by profsmog
A Bach Fugue? If so, which one? Or another composer? Please be more specific, by providing a pdf or an image of a few measures (including the one you've drawn), we might be able to advise you better. Also, I'm not sure that placing the bass line in Voice 2 is appropriate here.
In reply to A Bach Fugue? If so, which… by cadiz1
thanks for caring, but i did ask for purely technical advice so please, dont spend any energy on that. im in my 4th year of professional music theory and i wrote the entire fugue by myself. i know what i'm doing, its just the how :)
In reply to thanks for caring, but i did… by profsmog
Ah. Then you know that what keyboard instrument you are writing for makes a difference in how you write something. Do you really like the jumble that results from just moving the red notes over? Yes you want the red notes to be held longer. I'm assuming this is for organ. Would you write the same thing for piano or harpsichord? Or accordion? Then you also know that there is a difference between music that is written technically correct and that which is musical.
This is why you were asked so many questions by someone with way more experience than you :)
In reply to Ah. Then you know that what… by bobjp
you are very wrong on multiple accounts. clearly you dont know what you are talking about.
i did not ask for anyones opinion, i needed help with the program and got a kind and helpful answer already.
neither instrument, nor piece, nor epoch nor anything really is relevant for my technical question
but since you want to push the aspects of musicality and correctness let me educate you:
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the offsetting of notes has absolutely nothing to do with lenght of said notes. also it is very appropriate in this context (fugue in baroque style). this is simply a measure taken for readability (and also for contrapunctal reasons)
let me give you multiple examples of standard wll-tempered-clavier I editions where the same is done:
In reply to you are very wrong on… by profsmog
Thank you for taking the time to educate me. Though clearly you have no idea how to interact online.
Great I'm glad you got the answer you needed. The person that first asked you questions was not me. But a teacher with more years experience with notation software than you. He was only trying to be helpful. Yet you chose to be rude.
True. But only partially.
None of these examples is even close to what you wanted in your drawing. When I moved your red notes over, I came up with the first measure in my image. Kind of a jumble. If the length of the red notes doesn't matter, then you could write it like my second measure. Not Baroque notation style. But I doubt they would have written what you did.
![offset.png]( "offset.png")
In reply to Ah. Then you know that what… by bobjp
i have university music theory education, i dont need to be belittled by some fool on the web who has absolutely no judgement over who has "way more experience"
In reply to i am college educated music… by profsmog
No one is belittling anyone. But I guess your education didn't teach you how to use capital letters and punctuation. Sorry for your rudeness.
In reply to here is a visual… by profsmog
Select the red notes, use "Properties panel / "Appearance" tab / Modify horizontal offset".
In reply to Select the red notes use … by HildeK
ah, that did the job. Thank you very much. I did miss that because i only looked at the individual properties of the heads, stems and bars