Playing multiple grace notes in PC
Hello,
I'd like to ask if MuseScore can play multiple grace notes? I have two 1/16 grece notes befere note and they are omitted during playback. (Musescore 1.0, Windows 7/Fedora 14).
Is it a problem with MusiScore or with sythesiser?
If I connect my computer through MIDI to Casio Celviano piano will grace notes be played?
Doubled grace notes are not colored blue during playback.
I don't want to put this thread into "Support and bug requests" forum because I am Musiscore beginner and maybe I have missed something in documentation.
Best regards,
Wojtek
Comments
MuseScore ignores most ornaments during playback -- trills, mordents, turns (gruppetti), some grace notes, etc. The reasons stated are principally that there are so many interpretations possible that there is no way to satisfactorily implement them to satisfy everyone.* (Some musicologists hold that the interpretations varied from town to town in the baroque era.) For these reasons, I generally agree with this decision not to try to interpret them in MuseScore.
I generally create two versions of a baroque piece -- one for printing purposes, where I use the ornament signs themselves, and a second for playback where I write out those passages in conventional notation. It’s a little extra work, but I usually get exactly the realization I want.
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*In the case of J.S. Bach it is, fortunately, much clearer since he wrote out the interpretations for most of his commonly used ornaments for his son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_(music).
See this .