Quarter note does not fit in measure
I am not an actual pianist so I am uncertain how the passage illustrated in the attached from Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu would be played. (Measure 17 on my edition.) There are measures with 16 sixteenth notes with a second voice of 4 quarter note starting after a sixteenth rest and falling on the second note of each group of four. So when you get to the final group there is only room for a dotted eighth in the measure. This pattern continues for several more measures so I would assume someone playing the piece would hold the note across the measure bar line. But Musescore truncates the note entry and creates a tied sixteenth note in the next measure and this would be deleted with additional entry. I have viewed other versions of this piece posted in the Musescore library and many versions do not have the second voice notes at all. One piece posted shows a quarter note. Is there any option in Musescore to force the note into the measure?
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By the way.. I can make the written score look like my source by hiding the flag on a eighth note but the playback is off (not that anyone could tell I imagine.)
In reply to By the way.. I can make the… by msokol
You can fake the look and get what seems to be the intended playback with some fiddling.
I put the voice 1 quarter note in at the end of the measure and then invisibled the flag, dot, tie and following 1/8th that MuseScore correctly added. Then I had to tweak the x offset of the coinciding voice two note to make it coincide visually and also reduce the leading space of the following voice 2 1/8th to get rid of an ugly gap.
In reply to You can fake the look and… by SteveBlower
That's the method I would use.
In reply to That's the method I would… by mike320
@msokol, is there really a pause at the beginning of the measure?
In reply to @msokol, is there really a… by Shoichi
Typical of piano music, it's implied to be in voice 1 on beat 1 even though it isn't visible.
In reply to You can fake the look and… by SteveBlower
So the intent in playing the piece is to hold the note across the bar line and since Musescore forces the notes in a measure to add up to the required beat count it cannot do it normally. Thanks for the workaround.
In reply to So the intent in playing the… by msokol
Well, Chopin cheated a bit! It is non-standard notation, but we guess we know what he means. It looks neater than the "correct" version and is probably easier to read.