Is it possible to input this metronome mark?

• Feb 10, 2021 - 02:17

Hello,
Is it possible in Musescore to input such kind of metronome mark? The same applies to those with 3 eighths or quarters in a triplet vs two normal eighths or quarters. Again, this is from a manual of braille music notation.

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• Feb 10, 2021 - 04:49

Wow, it's extremely terrible! It's completely unsuitable for braille transcription. I have asked Michael Good for this in 2018, and he said this can be easily expressed in Musicxml as the attached (my edit), and Finale can easily read and display it correctly. So I think Musescore should include this feature. Sibelius can use metronome mark text to create the same thing, but can't export correct Musicxml due to the implementation limitation. It seems I have to create a feature request issue for our project.

Haipeng

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• Feb 10, 2021 - 08:06

True, not suitable for the blind. And it doesn't affect playback at all, it is an image, and that only.
For playback and visually impaired we have Swing text.

In that xml I guerss you mean this:

      <direction placement="above">
        <direction-type>
           <metronome>
             <metronome-note>
               <metronome-type>eighth</metronome-type>
               <metronome-beam number="1">begin</metronome-beam>
             </metronome-note>
             <metronome-note>
               <metronome-type>eighth</metronome-type>
               <metronome-beam number="1">end</metronome-beam>
             </metronome-note>
             <metronome-relation>equals</metronome-relation>
             <metronome-note>
               <metronome-type>quarter</metronome-type>
               <metronome-tuplet bracket="yes" show-number="actual" type="start">
                 <actual-notes>3</actual-notes>
                 <normal-notes>2</normal-notes>
                 <normal-type>eighth</normal-type>
               </metronome-tuplet>
             </metronome-note>
             <metronome-note>
               <metronome-type>eighth</metronome-type>
               <metronome-tuplet type="stop">
                 <actual-notes>3</actual-notes>
                 <normal-notes>2</normal-notes>
                 <normal-type>eighth</normal-type>
               </metronome-tuplet>
             </metronome-note>
           </metronome>
          </direction-type>
        <sound tempo="120"/>
        </direction>
 

How did you get this into a MuseScore 3.0.5 xml export?

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• Feb 10, 2021 - 08:22

Sometimes it's not about swing. E.g., when a 2/4 or 4/8 time changes to 6/8 and the music plays as triplet eighths in 2/4 or 4/8 to ease notation, the modulation mark will write  =3(), where the 3 is over the bracket. There's also case of tie such as  = , etc. Any kind of cases should be thought, so it may be a big project, otherwise we can only use system text to imitate the original notation.

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