Beams across system breaks
This has been well discussed in other posts and hopefully is addressed in Musescore 4 but just in case I'm adding a suggestion. When a beamed note continues across a sytem break the beam stubs do not appear in the trailing or leading notes of the adjacent measures. So since it is only graphical, perhaps add an option to the beam or flag in inspector to have an option for the display like there is for note heads or mirror heads. So you could add a normal, stub left or stub right which would modify the display as necessary. Of course the underlying graphical symbols need to be created.
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Unfortunately still not possible, but definitely on the radar to address as soon there is time after the initial 4.0 release. It turns out to be maddeningly difficult to implement - or at least was with the old beaming code. The new code might simplify this.
Now that we're several updates into MuseScore 4, I wonder if this is still being discussed? I don't mean to underestimate how difficult it is to implement, but I do think it would be worthwhile. Thanks.
In reply to Now that we're several… by chrismassa1
See this issue on Github:
Cross-bar beam over system break #19378
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/19378
Let me add a side note that I'm sure will be disregarded.
There have been many posts about beaming to make sight reading easier. Beaming texts that I have looked in at random, in general agree that beams should group notes by the beat instead of by a phrase. I seem to remember my college music education courses saying not to beam across bar lines. Yes, yes, I know people will post plenty of examples of music that has beams across bar lines and staff breaks. That doesn't make it correct. It just means some publisher did it. There are plenty of published examples where no beams are used. That doesn't make that right, either.
But wait. What about the intent of the composer? What about it? A composer can mark their music anyway they want. They can mark things they think will show a performer how they want something played. And yet, what is on the page has no meaning until that page is performed. The performer has the final say. Does the performer need a beam across a bar line in a scale like passage? Hard to say. Would it matter if it wasn't there? Also, hard to say. Does it hurt anything if it is there? There are some sources that say it might. There are plenty of things that a performer will play the way they feel something should be played, that are different from the score.
I get that there are many who want this ability. I'm just adding another thought.