Applying accidentals to trills (or deleting them) is complicated--and they won't play
Using MuseScore 3.0.5
I don't find a direct way to apply an accidental to a trill. The expected way would be to select the trill and double click on the desired icon in the accidentals palette. The accidental should immediately appear on the trill. What happens is that the trill stops being selected and nothing more.
Workaround: Apply any accidental to the note. Then the accidental appears at the left of the note and above the trill. Finally, delete the accidental from the note . The trill accidental remains there, as desired.
To erase the trill accidental, select and delete it. Nothing will happen, but if you apply an accidental to the note and then delete it, both accidentals will be gone.
As in earlier versions, the accidental on the trill is not functional yet and does not affect playback.
Comments
From what I can see, in the workaround you must attempt to apply an accidental to a trill line, then apply any accidental to the note and the trill line's accidental will appear on the trill line. For example, you can apply a sharp to the till line and nothing happens. Apply a flat to the note and both the flat on the note and sharp on the trill line will appear.
In reply to From what I can see, in the… by mike320
But... Please, enlighten me!!! What is the idea to put accidentals inside the trills? ???
Whatever, it seems to me it can be controlled with the Inspector options to "trills" (Or... Am I wrong?)
In reply to But... Please, enlighten me!… by jotape1960
Often the upper note of the trill must be sharpened or flattened with respect to the diatonic note corresponding to the key. For instance you have a C major key signature, you modulate to C minor and need a trill on D. The upper note most probably will need to be E flat.
The trill inspector does not have any option regarding accidentals
In reply to From what I can see, in the… by mike320
Yes, that's it, any accidental will do the job. Before that step it seems that the accidental has really been applied because the accidental inspector opens, but the accidental itself doesn't show. I tried from the inspector to toggle visibility on / off without result. But, interestingly, applying an accidental to any other note also works, as well as inserting any new note (or deleting it), applying an articulation mark or, may I guess, any edit that requires an update of the score...