Parentheses for notes
This is either a feature request or a bug report. Could be either.
Sometimes it is useful to be able to put parentheses () round notes to indicate they are not played on all repeats. This is particularly useful in songs. Currently parentheses can only be put round accidentals to indicate they are reminders.
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You can use the parentheses from Create > Symbols...
Or you can use staff text.
In reply to #1 by David Bolton
yes, but how do you succeed in putting together in the same space of time : a quarter note, and at its sides, a quaver in parentheses ? so that for example in a psalm, for the first stanza, the quarter should be sung, for another stanza, two quavers instead, following the text under the stave ?
for example see the file attached
thanks it would be of much help !
Please don't resurrect an issue that is closed since 7 years, but use a new forum topic instead.
In this case here it seems you need to use voices, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices
It is preferable to use the forum https://musescore.org/en/forum/6
seven years have passed...check whether the attachment meets your needs.
Welcome.
In reply to yes, but how do you succeed… by francoisgael.darbon
You can already put parentheses around a note by applying the parentheses in either the noteheads palette or or accidentals palette to the note.
In reply to You can already put… by mike320
For a song with many parenthetical notes, it's rather laborious to click and drag the parentheses over and over again to each note, especially when one needs to align them properly. I'll agree this ought to be a feature of MuseScore.
That is why you can select multiple notes (click one, Ctrl+click more) and then double click the brackets in the noteheads palette to apply to all in one go
In reply to That is why you can select… by Jojo-Schmitz
Unfortunately, Jojo, that's not the effect I'm looking for - a parenthesis around each notehead looks rather sloppy.
obviously (or maybe not) you should only select those noteheads that you want bracketed
In reply to Unfortunately, Jojo, that's… by Gidoza
@Gidoza,
If you want parentheses around a group of notes use the master palette and insert them from the symbols. Apply one to the first note and the other to the last note.
In reply to That is why you can select… by Jojo-Schmitz
Is it possible to put parentheses around a group of grace notes preceding a note to indicate that it is all of them or none?
Add from the Accidental palette and make them invisible?
In reply to Add from the Accidental… by Shoichi
Thanks Soichi. I've discovered that it is even simpler than that: parentheses that you got by double clicking on notehead symbol come by pair, but their are independent so you can just delete all but the first one and the last one of the group.
Note by doing that I have discovered that making one of them invisible move it and that undo reset the visibility but not the change of position which is clearly a bug.