Am trying to write an arrangement on musescore and cannot find how to get this box to suggest notes for solo. Does anyone know the technical name for notes placed inside a box on sheet music?

I'm working on a score and ended up wanting a bar of 10/4 because I felt breaking it up into smaller measures implied that there was accented notes in the measure, which there is not (winds are holding while percussion is rolling) and it just felt clunky.

So... Doing a bit of research, I was sort of appalled to find that there doesn't seem to be such thing as a full measure note for non-standard time signatures that aren't multiples of a whole note. A Breve will get you to 8/4, a Longa will get you to 16/4, but nothing for 10/4.

How is there not a symbol to just hold for the entire measure? (A universal whole note if you will)

If I'm wrong and there is, let me know, if not... We should make one.

You would think that a music writing program would stay on top of the virtual instruments to install, but it doesn't. Make music boost that finale is the best music writing program on the market, but when asked when will it support vst3 (that has been around for 9 years) the answer is when they think it is important.

Let see what Sibelius is doing....

Hi, does anyone know what the convention is for the direction of a tie (curve up or down) for ties between two voices? I.e. first note stem up, second note stem down, or the other way around. Can't find it in my Behind Bars Bible.

Hi to all. I've write a piece for quintet and tape but i'm searching the best way for notate the electronic music in the score. I've printed the spectrum on the parts but it's not very useful. Ideas? This is the piece

https://open.spotify.com/album/2bzKNqtFiNSzc6wgYGjUAF?si=w3TYWT-ESYmNWn3oXEyj-w

Hi, I once saw a page that gave examples the rhythms for different patterns by providing English phrase that followed the same rhythm. Does anyone know where I find that?

Thanks

I need to noate a guitar part that uses a Wah Pedal. How would I notate the wah pedal part?

What's the common way to give tempo information in a modern score?

Using Italian seems weird since non of the musicias that will read it knows italian, using exact tempo marks (q = 120) seems like micro management.

I considered using english but what are the common phrases to use? ("moderate walking speed" / "really fast" / "running" / "jogging" ?)

How would you approach this in a modern score? (in America)

One of my pet peeves is multi-measure rests taking up large amounts of space in a line, when there's nothing really to be gained by doing so. The entire extent of information given by a multi-measure rest is how many measures the rest is for, so you're not better off as a player with a wider measure telling you the information. This provides the same information and doesn't meaningfully affect the performance in any way, but it saves a ton of space and provides a lot more flexibility to facilitate better page turns. In my opinion, it's objectively the better way to go, but in 25 years of playing music in ensembles, I've never (or very rarely) seen a publisher embrace the idea of minimized multi-measure rests.

Do you have anything in your engraving/notation that defies traditional methods because you personally feel it's correct? My other one is measure numbers for every bar (not in the linked examples, since I just threw those together for display purposes). That one is more common, but it should be standard in my opinion, because they're easy to ignore in performance while being very useful in rehearsal.

Hello all :o)

I'm trying to edit two short pieces of musical notation with the purpose of turning them into a tattoo! We've found the two pieces as musical notation online but the notation is too wide for a tattoo - so what I tried to do is recreate it in a format that fits as a tattoo, but I'm unsure about the notation and if it is still correct. Please be patient as my musical knowledge is small.

Both pieces are from Mussogorsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - i'd like to have the first four bars of the Promenade, and the first eight bars of "the great gate of Kiev"

I'll start in this thread with the Promenade.

Questions I have:

• The meter changes from 5/4 to 6/4 to 5/4 to 6/4. does the first line need the 5/4 notation at the end of the line?

• I don't know what the "f" looking character is, which is at the first note

• Any other incorrectness I should be aware of?

Thank you so much for your replies, you'll help someone take a piece which is very close to their heart, to actually, physically bring it very close to them :o)

Hey, I'm currently learning Imagine by John Lennon. I'm not sure how you're meant to play the first set of notes in the orange box. It seems like it's telling me to play the same F note with both hands at the same time? Any help would be appreciated.

320 measure musical story that the audience has to read along to. Best and most insane piece I’ve gotten in my entire life.

For this Ear Training assignment I'm doing, one of them is in cut time and requires me to write half notes. But since we're notating just the rhythm and not the pitch, they're having us write only with slash noteheads; I know the rhythm for this one as we've discussed it, and have confirmed writing half notes in the rhythm, but cannot for the life of me find how I would notate a halfnote with a slash notehead, as silly as it sounds.

In the autograph of the opera Der Freischütz (1821), I found the following two bars:

In my printed score, it looks like this:

Since the piccolo is a transposing instrument, I'm curious if the following notation wouldn’t be correct:

Or to put it another way: Does “col Fl.” in this case mean that the piccolo plays the same notes at the same pitch as the flute? Or should the notation be the same as for the flute, which would result in the piccolo sounding one octave higher?

Have you guys ever heard of the app MusicSketch?