Theory and Musescore
I enjoy working with Musescore, but at times its automation features seem to get in the way and I'd like to turn them off, especially when I'm trying to mimic a score exactly as printed that's somewhat unusual in that it doesn't precisely follow music theory.
I've tried unchecking any feature that seems to relate to Musescore adjusting or inserting entries according to it's own rules.
To illustrate, the measures in the EG1 display are from the purchased music score. EG2 is how Musescore interprets my attempt at entry.
The time signature is 9/8.
The contrast between the two are: EG2 has spurious rests (both visible and invisible) inserted where not wanted, beat count tied to time signature (in truth I don't understand EG1 not following this) and irresolvable differences in note beam structure.
My guess is these are all somewhat related but I have no idea how to remedy them.
Of course, my question is, is there a remedy?
Comments
Differences in note beam structure? see treble measure 15.
Have you try to delete all rests in voices 2, to see what's happens with rests in voice 1 ?
In reply to Have you try to delete all… by Raymond Wicquart
Yes, but Musescore won't allow the deletion (rules and regs). I've also erased the entire measure many times and tried to re-enter it to the same effect.
It's easier to help if you attach your actual score, not just a picture. But in general, you need to understand how the multiple voices work in the music your are entering in order to understand how to enter them. You also need to be sure to pay attention to how the tuplets are actually structured. Then you generally won't need or indeed want to disable anything - things will work as expected. In order to understand what you might have gotten wrong, again, we'd need you to attach the score itself. As it is, I think you probably entered the duplets incorrectly, but I can't be 100% sure.
In reply to It's easier to help if you… by Marc Sabatella
I'm concerned that sending the entire score might constitute copyright infringement, however if it helps this is an 'easy piano' version of Clair de lune. I'll work on the entering of duplets to see if that solves the problem.
In reply to I'm concerned that sending… by Dicki
It is not a problem to post something like that here, but if you’re worried, you can delete everything but the measures with the problem.
Anyhow, it definitely works when you enter it correctly, and I’ve actually done my own arrangement of that piece so I’m pretty familiar with the issues involved with it. Everything adds up as it should (unless there is a typo is the arrangement you are copying), bit you do have to get the tuers correct. One or two places you might want to hide a rest.
In reply to It is not a problem to post… by Marc Sabatella
OK, I'll work on it. One thing, certainly passes the time in this era of 'isolation'.
I think one problem is that when creating the duplet you apparently started from a 1/4 note, but you should have started from a 1/4 dotted note (i.e. 3/8 actual duration), so that two 1/8 notes occupy the place of three 1/8 notes.
I also think that in the third measure the groups of two notes are actually duplets as well (two 1/8 notes in the place of three 1/8 notes), but the "2" sign was left out. Or maybe it is a shorter measure (maybe the last measure, or the last measure of a repeat, in a score starting with a 1/8 pick-up measure).
See the attachment as a possible way to insert these notes.
Ciao,
ABL
In reply to I think one problem is that… by ABL
Interesting, did not know that. Thanks I'll give it a try.
In reply to Interesting, did not know… by Dicki
I'm assume we're all using the latest Musescore for Windows 10,
version 3.4.2.9788
In reply to I'm assume we're all using… by Dicki
Thanks people, following the advice given it works fine, especially the bit about creating duplets from a 3/8 rest instead of 1/4 rest.