Accidental Test on B
I have made the accidental test on B and I don't know how to do quarter tones in musescore. Can anybody help with that? In the meantime listen to the piece I have made.
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Doesn't this plugin help?
In reply to Doesn't this plugin help? by Jojo-Schmitz
I haven't even tried it. What do you think of the piece so far?
...what you are attempting here, but if you are looking for triple sharps/flats, as you mentioned in
your other post, you can use the double sharp/flat from the Accidentals palette. Then drag
another flat/sharp from the Symbols Pallette (keyboard shortcut is 'Z').
For playback, Musescore will honor the double sharp/flat but not the one added from the
Symbols Pallette. For that, the Note Properties tuning offset can be adjusted.
In measure 51 of my attachment, right click on the notehead of the 'B triple sharp' and under
Note Properties look at the Tuning offset. (Same for the triple flat in measure 62, except the
offset is down, not up.)
Broadly speaking, a semitone is close or equal to 100 cents - depending on temperament
(tuning).
So, for example, in measure 51, I used a double sharp but had to increase the tuning
offset by 100 cents to get the note to sound another semitone higher due to the sharp added
from the 'Z' pallette. As you can see (and hear) the 'B triple sharp' in measure 51 is enharmonic
with the 'D' in the following measure.
My question:
So, why not just notate a 'D', and change key? After all, in measure 33, you abandoned the 'B double sharp' in favor of the 'C sharp', yes?
(By the way - in your attachment, regarding the triads (chords) - I was wondering why some are major, some minor. I used major triads in the section I added.)
Lastly, to answer your question about quarter tones:
The tuning offset in Note Properties will accomodate quarter (eg. 50 cents) or other microtones.
Regards.
In reply to Not quite sure... by Jm6stringer
I wanted to show how if you start on B minor how that will change the chord if you use different accidentals. That is why I used some major and some minor chords. Also I showed the B sharp and then went to C because it is easier than B sharp on every note that is enharmonic to C I did that same thing for B double sharp and B double flat but I wanted to show that you could put in a double flat on B and it would be equivalent to A and How did you get the triple sharp to be D and the triple flat to be Ab also you can form lots more chords and intervals with quarter tones such as a supermajor second and a subminor third
There is no quarter tone or microtonal accidental in your score, just sharps, flats, double sharps and double flats, which all work in semitone steps.
But even if there weremicro tonal accidental: they won't Play back without help by setting the notes' property's tuning offset.