layered note using voices.

• Oct 18, 2013 - 00:24

In a piece I am transcribing, I have come across a passage as shown in the attachment.
It is the bass line in the piece, where two notes of different values are placed side by side, or overlayed.
On playback of this section in musescore, only the semiquaver is played, with the minim being ignored, as if the semiquaver cancels out the previous note.
The semiquaver is also layed over other notes in the passage, and seems to have the same effect.
If (as I assume), this passage is played by a single instrument, why have diffent lengths for the same note in such a fashion.

Minums, Crotchets and Quavers are in voice 1
Semiquavers in voice 2.

Regards Musically Niave.

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Comments

My guess is it's a cello/double bass part or e.g. two bassoons and the d.b. or second player plays the lower stems when both stems are indicated.

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