Deleting a rest in a 2nd voice sextuplet

• Oct 13, 2024 - 21:24

So, I was going to transcribe and upload Chopin's "24 Préludes, Opus 28," to MuseScore's website, however, I realized this impossible sextuplet (6:4) starting on beat 1.333333... and I downloaded the score to see if these were just invisible rests, however, I saw no invisible rests and concluded that they were just not there, [is there any way I can delete the highlighted rests in the image] in MuseScore 3?

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Comments

TheHutch

• Oct 14, 2024 - 05:09

If you delete them, the sextuplet will be incomplete and in the wrong place. It looks like the first rest is duplicated in the (physically) top Voice. So if you make the first rest Invisible (Properties tab at the very top) that rest suffices for both. While hiding the second rest makes the sextuplet "incorrect" (it would appear to only have five notes), the fact of the sixth being lined up with the final note from the triplets may let musicians interpret it correctly. But I would recommend only hiding the first to make it 100% clear.

OpenSounds

• Oct 14, 2024 - 16:53

Thank you.

underquark

• Oct 14, 2024 - 09:45

Possibly an error in engraving in the "original"? It looks they mean a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note but then the eighth note would have to start on the first beat.

rothers

• Oct 14, 2024 - 10:16

This is how Schirmer notated it:

underquark

• Oct 14, 2024 - 11:48

That's an interpretation of the possibly-flawed earlier engraving.

i've heard it played like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqXYIteAfNs

And note (from a German 1839 engraving, next best thing to Chopin's own manuscript) they try to make it mathematically correct and then just subsequently drop the rest. Maybe Chopin's original was like that or difficult to interpret: