Central Alignment of notes (not rests or lyrics) in measure?

• Jan 17, 2017 - 08:18

Hello! I haven't found a discussion directly on the alignment of noteheads within the measure. The final measure of the score I am working on has an ending chord which is left aligned, and I want to center it in the measure, graphically. Cut & paste changes nothing (except the lone rest above).
Meanwile I changed the graphic length of the whole measure so it looks a little less awkward --Picture attached.
Is this a graphic bug, or is there a way to change it?
Thanks in advance!

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Comments

FWIW, though, centering notes in a measure is *not* standard. I wouldn't be too in a hurry to reproduce the errors in an original manuscript. But I think it's more to the point to observe that the original editor made the last measure narrow enough that even the default position *appeared* centered. I think that's what you should be instead consider striving for.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Some classical scores and methods has this kind of notation style for whole and double whole notes (Just like whole measure and multi measure rests). only for : 4/4, Cebaré, 2/2, ... .
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But isn't appears on: dotted half note for 3/4, 6/8; and half note for 2/4 ... .
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examples from : Pasquale Bona, Complete Method for Rhythmic Articulation: 1905; White-Smith Pubishing. USA

In reply to by Ziya Mete Demircan

That first example looks at me extremely funny. In fact my eye "stumbles" as it reads along. This makes reading the music harder than it needs to be. Interestingly the very first note is not centered in the measure. That makes it truly confusing.
Without knowing Gould I'd agree this is incorrect or at least suboptimal even if it has been printed (it happens that printed material is incorrect as we all know...).
Compressing the final measure however is a good idea: Why waste all that real estate you could use to improve some other part in the score?

In reply to by Ziya Mete Demircan

That first example looks at me extremely funny. In fact my eye "stumbles" as it reads along. This makes reading the music harder than it needs to be. Interestingly the very first note is not centered in the measure. That makes it truly confusing.
Without knowing Gould I'd agree this is incorrect or at least suboptimal even if it has been printed (it happens that printed material is incorrect as we all know...).
Compressing the final measure however is a good idea: Why waste all that real estate you could use to improve some other part in the score?

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