![]() ![]() In part because of the alignment difference, but also because usually when you encounter nothing in a measure (at the start of it) the natural interpretation is silence which exactly matches the intended effect. This type of confusion does not arise with the whole rest vs measure rest symbol. The reason for that confusion is that there would be no way to distinguish this new note with the way more common existing whole note.Įspecially when taking into account existing (though low-occurrence) music which allows showing note durations across measure boundaries. ![]() I know I'm late to respond (wheh, this topic exploded and not always in the nice and friendly way.) but for me at least I was not as much debating the usefulness of a full measure note as much as the use of the whole note symbol for it.īecause using the whole notehead symbol for a full measure note would lead to heaps of confusion with many musicians. Then in 5/8, we can just enter a whole note, and MuseScore will treat it with the desired value according to the meter (the same way default whole rests work). A simple Style switch could turn on a "whole notes fill the measure regardless of meter" option. The software could obviously do this for us. (3) it's time consuming to change everything manually. (2) MIDI export problems - notes tied over rests are rendered with incorrect lengths (or you could say they are the "correct" lengths since they reflect the actual notation, which has been fiddled with for visual reasons). (1) layout problems - when these hacks are implemented, the layout can behave oddly There is a price to pay for these workarounds: In that case, fortunately MuseScore allows tying over rests, so in 5/8 a half note can be entered, changed to a whole note head with hidden stem, then the 8th rest can be made invisible, and the note can be tied across the hidden rest. This works in all cases except when the whole notes need to be tied to the following measure. We are used to seeing this already for whole rests, so the meaning for musicians reading the music is obvious.Ĭurrently this can be done using workarounds in MuseScore, with the following tricks: changing the note head manually and hiding the stem. If a note needs to fill a bar, regardless of the meter, a whole note can be used. This same practice applies to any odd meter. In odd meters such as 5/8, if a voice sustains a note which should fill the whole bar, the only "standard" way to notate it is to tie two notes together, which looks very clumsy.Ī better practice is to simply use a whole note. ![]()
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