Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement, Bar 37, how to make an exact copy into MuseScore?
I downloaded Moonlight Sonata pdf from Mutopia, and copying it into MuseScore to learn to read notation. I am stuck at 1st movement, bar 37, it is 4/4, all triplets in the right hand staff, starting from second triplet, all notes are bass clef, but then the none triplets notes, that overlap on triplets, what are their actual length? and how to enter them? I used voice 1 for triplets, voice 2 for the overlap notes, but cannot get them exactly the same position as in the pdf, they always show up as different lengths. Did I miss read the score?
Comments
It would be easier to answer if you posted the link to the specific version of the score you are looking at - different editors might be doing different things with the notation there. I'm guessing maybe you are talking about the downstem notes in the top staff, second half of the measure. Beat 3 is a triplet, just like the notes in voice 1, except instead of three eighths, it's an eighth and a quarter (adds up to the same thing). The last beat is just a simple quarter note. So, after entering note entry mode and swithcing to voice 2:
6 0 5 Ctrl-3 A 5 D 5 C
Then hide the half rest and the tuplet bracket.
I made a screen of the pdf file I got. It is the bar 37 I do not understand. In treble clef, the notes with downward stem, what are their lengths?
I took a screen-shot of the pdf file I got from Mutopia.org.
It is bar 37 in right hand staff that I do not understand. The notes with downward stems, what are their lengths?
A quaver, and then a crochet?
Sorry, cannot upload the attachment, bad connection. So post it on picasa instead.
https://picasaweb.google.com/111525127040006540279/20121215
In reply to Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement tBar 37, mutopia version by lousiewhei
It's exactly as I explained in my previous response - the downstems notes in the second hald of the measure are in voice two, witht eh quaver and ctrotch forming a triplet, and the final note a crotchet. There is an implied (hidden) half rest on the first beat in that voice.
I guess maybe you're not very comfortable with triplets? You seem to understand a triplet consisting of three quavers. Well, a triplet consisting of quaver and a crotchet is the same thing. The crotchet simply takes the place of the last two quavers. Either way, it's three quavers in the time normally occupied by two.
In reply to It's exactly as I explained by Marc Sabatella
Thank you, it worked. I just started to learn to read music notation. So tuplets, triplets are still just names to me. And thanks to MuseScore, I actually have a way to understand what those names are supposed to mean.