Text Strike-through

• Oct 30, 2021 - 16:25

Is it possible to add a strike-through mark to text? For example, I only want one "t" sound in the lyrics "it together", so putting a slash through the "t" in "it" would be the proper way to indicate this. Is there a way to do this in MuseScore?

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• Oct 30, 2021 - 19:24

My work-around for non-vocalized letters in lyrics has always been to use an apostrophe, i.e. "let us sing i' together". Not ideal but it gets the point across without confusion.

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• Oct 31, 2021 - 16:51

Interesting, I'm not familiar with that convention but then I don't work with lyrics a lot. Anyhow, a workaround meanwhile would be to use the Special Characters dialog (press F2 while editing text), the Unicode section, Combining Diactrical Marks, and insert 0x00335 or 0x00336 right after the letter - those are the characters designed to be used for this purpose. You could drag these to a custom palette for easy reuse.

Unfortunately Edwin is missing these, so the dialog won't show you what you're getting, but it will still generally work because some other font will provide the fallback. Not sure results would be guaranteed to be consistent across systems though.

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• Oct 31, 2021 - 17:50

Dealing with unvoiced consonants (esp. when recording things like background vocals, where you don't want 4 other people putting a hard "t' or a sibilant "s" on the backing parts accompanying a lead voice, for example) is more or less "inside baseball" as far as performance goes. It's mostly accomplished on the spot by having the musical director or recording engineer giving verbal instructions to the singers on exactly how to voice a phrase, because a conflict is noticed at that moment.

On the few occasions when I've had to produce written transcriptions for backing vocalist recording sessions, the apostrophe technique has been very useful. I'm unsure how widespread the usage is because it's pretty case-specific but it absolutely does work and conveys the intent clearly and effectively, where a strike-through may be unclear. If a singer doesn't see a letter, they won't sing it. YMMV of course :)

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