accidentals
When an accidental needs to be retained for an entire measure, is there a way to avoid for ex., having to repeatedly add a sharp (not desired musical notation)? The program automatically puts a natural on the repeated note after an accidental sharp, thereby cancelling the accidental.
Thanks for any help!
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It's not clear what you mean here. Standard music notation says an accidental applies for the duration of the measure, and MuseScore understands that correctly. So if you enter an F# into a measure, all subsequent F's you enter into that measure via mouse or computer keyboard are already F#. Only way they'd come out F natural is if you literally entered an F natural explicitly such as with a MIDI keyboard or the built-in piano keyboard window.
if you are seeing otherwise in some particular score, we would need you to attach that score and give us precise steps to reproduce the problem.
In reply to It's not clear what you mean… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks. I found the answer in an older question on the forum, so thanks for your time, and sorry for the inconvenience. Since the accidental was added after all the notes were entered, then a natural was tagged automatically to the next occurrence of the note. I see that when I delete the series and re-enter the first note, followed by all the repeats, say a D, all subsequent D's have the desired accidental without any additional notation in that measure.
In reply to Thanks. I found the answer… by dveino
Right, adding an accidental to a single note changes only that note, other notes that were already entered are not affected - and thus the natural sign is required to prevent them from inadvertently changing pitch also. Assuming this was just an error you are now fixing, then depending on what else is happening in the measure, there may well be faster ways of doing this, such as by selecting the whole measure and hitting Up to raise the pitch of everything (if the measure was nothing but D's), or selecting the measure then right-clicking on D and choosing Select / More / Same pitch then hitting Up.