Melisma affects note spacing

• Dec 7, 2015 - 09:12

Using MS 2.0.2 on Windows 7 - SATB part song with piano accompaniment

I have noticed that MuseScore tries to allocate enough space for the entire lyric syllable, even if that syllable is supposed to extend to 4-5 notes with a melisma. This results in a very odd note spacing - here it's the first semiquaver which stands apart from the other three beamed notes

Is there a way to overcome this problem by a setting? Or is there an easy workaround? I am reluctant to move noteheads and stems manually...

Attached are two screenshots: the original 1922 printed Curwen edition and the current MuseScore working document. The *.mscz is also attached.

Thanks for any advice!
Dan

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TwaSisters.mscz	61.23 KB
The_Twa_Sisters_MuseScore_new.png	57.75 KB
The_Twa_Sisters_Curwen_original.png	51.62 KB

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Dec 7, 2015 - 10:28

Looks like a bug to me (and not only the melisma 'underscore' line, also the lyrics dash, when used as an intra word melisma, if you know what I mean), and, short of manually several noteheads (see attached) there is no setting to overcome this.

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Dan Rootham

• Dec 7, 2015 - 14:08

Jojo, many thanks for the repaired file.

There is already an issue which describes the problem:
https://musescore.org/en/node/5261

Dan

Jojo-Schmitz

• Dec 7, 2015 - 14:17

Ah, yes, I had completely forgotten about that #5261: Lyrics for melismas should not respace notes if there is room before next syllable and also #33246: Hyphenated melisma requires too much space