Spacing notes, rests and grouped eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc in a measure.

• Apr 13, 2019 - 22:29
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

I recently enter a composition into a competition. The conductor to told me that the spacing of the notes and rests were making it difficult for the musicians to distinguish the beats in each measure. He told me that Sibelius and Finale both arrange the notes in each measure to be easily readable automatically. I am trying to find out if there is a way for MuseScore to do this automatically. I have attached an example of what I'm talking about. Notice in Screenshot1 the B flat clarinet part how there is not very much space between the eighth note (2nd half of the 1st beat) and the sixteen notes (which are the 1st half of the 2nd beat).
Notice in Screenshot2 how there is no space between the grouped sixteenth notes and the quarter rests.
Also in some cases I have eighth note rests or sixteenth note rests that are too far away from the remainder of the beat. and in that case the notes of the beat need to be tighter.
I have plenty more examples but this should be enough to support my question. I don't know if this is an issue or if I just don't know how to accomplish creating more space between beats.

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Comments

Status active closed

It is better to use the Support forum when asking for help using MuseScore.

Neither Finale nor Sibelius nor MuseScore force you to enter music correctly, but they do generally make it easy to enter correctly as most things happen right by default if you don't deliberately do otherwise.

The music in your examples looks fine to me. But if you want things to have more space, you can increase the spacing setting in Format / Style / Measure.