How to add these duplet to musescore?
Hey!
I need a little help in musescore: How to add these duplet. Thanks for helping!
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I need a little help in musescore: How to add these duplet. Thanks for helping!
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Can't you just use quarter notes without duplets instead of half notes with duplets?
What's the time signature ?
In reply to What's the time signature ? by rothers
I guess it might be 12/8 or 3/2, with 4/4 or the like it would be possible but useless, with 3/4 or the like it would not be possible
In reply to What's the time signature ? by rothers
It’s 3/4
In reply to It’s 3/4 by nagylajos910
There a duplet of 2 half notes won't work in 3/4:
2 (half notes) in the space of 1.5 is not possible (in MuseScore), but a quadruplet is, 4 (quarter notes) in the space of 3, then change these quarter to half notes and live with the 4 in the bracket
In reply to It’s 3/4 by nagylajos910
Click on the whole rest and cntrl 2. Now enter the notes.
In reply to Click on the whole rest and… by Ruben Remus
There's no whole rest in 3/4, just a measure rest (looks the same, but is centered to the measure), but with that it wound create a dupltet of 2 quarter notes
In reply to There's no whole rest in 3/4… by Jojo-Schmitz
I call whole rest the rest of the whole measure.
In reply to I call whole rest the rest… by Ruben Remus
Well, it isn't the same thing though. Find out what happens when you do Ctrl+2 on a measzre rest in a 3/4 measure
In reply to Well, it isn't the same… by Jojo-Schmitz
Either the time signature is 3/2 or the notes of the duplet in the image are quarters, not half notes.
In reply to Either the time signature is… by Ruben Remus
Well, as per the OP the time sig is 3/4 and the notes of the duplet are half notes.
As said already: MuseScore can't do that.
In reply to It’s 3/4 by nagylajos910
MuseScore does not support tuplets with ratios having non-natural numbers.
Maybe it should, this came up several times alteady, feel free to file a request on GitHub, https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/new/choose
In reply to It’s 3/4 by nagylajos910
You could fake it:
![Screenshot 2025-05-05 170357.png]( "Screenshot 2025-05-05 170357.png")
Using a tremolo and making the tremolo bar invisible (and disable playback)
In reply to You could fake it [inline… by Jojo-Schmitz
Or this way.
![ScreenShot 409.png]( "ScreenShot 409.png")
But this works only with version 3, because you need the alpha cannel for the 2, which is a fake system text.
In reply to Or this way. But this works… by HildeK
It also works with Ctrl-2 if you then replace the quarter note head with a half note head.
![ScreenShot 410.png]( "ScreenShot 410.png")
You can do it with a nested duplet
![duplet.png]( "duplet.png")
Start with dotted minim
Add duplet (2 in 3)
Select first duplet crotchet and press W to double duration
Select duplet minim then custom tuplet 2 in 1
Thanks for everything guys, I did it!
May I ask why you need to write a 3/4 bar split in 2 as a duplet of 1/2 notes and not a duplet of 1/4 ones?
That seems to create difficulties/ambiguity to read it compared to the "correct" duplet?
In reply to May I ask why you need to… by frfancha
+1
Each note in a triplet should last less than if it were not in a triplet, and each note in a duplet should last more than if it were not in a duplet. Anything else is non-standard and strikes me as whimsical.
In reply to +1 Each note in a triplet… by Ruben Remus
As that'd require a 2:1.5 ratio for a duplet in a 3/4 measure, this is not possible in MuseScore (currently), as I mentioned above already
Request it on GitHub, else it won't ever happen.
In reply to As that'd require a 2:1.5… by Jojo-Schmitz
?? Are you telling me? I'm saying exactly that it would be poorly written music.
In reply to ?? Are you telling me? I'm… by Ruben Remus
Yes, each note in a duplet should last more than if it were not in a duplet, so you want half notes, don't you?
OTH the quarter notes in a 3/4 measure duplet are longer than 'regular' quarter notes, they just don't look longer currently
In reply to Yes, each note in a duplet… by Jojo-Schmitz
???
As you know, the duration of the measures doesn't stretch because you add triplets, nor does it shrink because you add duplets.
In reply to Yes, each note in a duplet… by Jojo-Schmitz
No that's exactly the opposite.
A half note in a duplet in 3/4 will last less
So that is what he does not want.
What nobody does actually in "normal" notation.
In reply to No that's exactly the… by frfancha
Ah, true. The quarter notes in such a duplet do last longer than regular ones, but in a half note duplet the half notes would last shorter than regular ones.
Still this question comes up time and time again, so MuseScore should support it, in order to be able to transcribe scores that (erroneously or not) use this
In reply to Ah, true. The quarter notes… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, I hope MS never allows such a "crime" against musical notation. : )
In reply to No that's exactly the… by frfancha
@frfrancha Yeah! I was starting to think my English wasn't being understood.
Looks like the OP is doing some transcription work. Publishers get to do whatever they want, proper or not. Just because we see it in print doesn't mean it is correct.
In reply to Looks like the OP is doing… by bobjp
And vice versa, just because it is not correct we still may see (and want!) it in print