please, help me

• Mar 20, 2015 - 15:53

Hello!
I would like to ask, how do I know this formula. As shown in the top line, the 4.4-inch piece of music.
Thank you in advance.
Kovajani

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taking all the small notes to be grace notes, the large one in treble just don't sum up to the same amount as the notes/rests in bass clef. So I have no idea how to notate this.

I know people have explained how to notate this, but it just seems as though the engravers forgot to include 3 barlines, except the last bar would have no rests in the bottom staff. There is 3 very nice 4/4 bars in the top staff.

In reply to by schepers

It's a cadenza so barlines are not usually used. I don't know the piece but the spacing of the rests and fermata in the lower stave may correspond to other instruments playing a chord (or the notes that make up a chord), for instance.

Personally (we're talking about in 1.3 here but 2.0 provides some better ways of doing it) I approach cadenzas as follows:

1] Split it into two or more measures corresponding to the shape of the cadenza - two measures makes sense here. Then make the middle barline(s) invisible.
2] Set the actual duration of each measure to slightly longer than needed (maybe 13/4 or 14/4 at a guess).
3] Enter the notes - for many "grace" notes in a row I prefer to enter them as normal notes and then make them all Small.
4] When you get to the end of the first measure, adjust its actual duration to eliminate the final rest. To get rid of a quarter-note rest, reduce from, say, 13/4 to 12/4. To get rid of an eighth-note rest, change from 13/4 to 25/8 and to get rid of a sixteenth-note rest change form 13/4 to 51/16 etc.
5] Now enter the rests etc, in the lower stave, Use mixture of eight and quarter rests, make some invisible etc. to get the desired effect.

Note that this was created in 1.3 and if you load it into 2.0 it won't look right at all. In general, cadenzas are just too contrived and fancy to make the transition to 2.0 from a 1.3 score.

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