Note articulation in chord
First of all I need to mention that I really love MuseScore. Have been using it for some months now to create the sheet music for piano pieces I write, and I am learning a lot about notation from just working in MuseScore.
Now I have come to the situation where I have an arpeggiated chord, in which I want to articulate the highest note (which needs to be slightly louder). By default, the articulation gets placed below the right-hand part of the chord (in this case). Now, I can manually move the articualtion up and down. But I am running up to a question on notation theory:
How to properly indicate which note should be articualted within the chord?
This might get really confusing, for example when the middle note of the left-hand part of the chord should be articulated. It seems that music notation convention does not allow for this. So for this case I might just leave the articulation out and leave it up to the player. But I am wondering whether I might be missing something.
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Comments
Maybe by using different voices?
In reply to Maybe by using different… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the tip. But that messes up the direction of the ties without changing anything about the placement of the articulation.
Pretty much any pianist would naturally accent the top note, no special notation needed. Only if it was something other than the top note - and not clearly the main melody - would you even need to think about trying to invent a notation for this.
In reply to Pretty much any pianist… by Marc Sabatella
But MuseScore doesn't, or does it?
In reply to But MuseScore doesn't, or… by Jojo-Schmitz
No, no more than it knows to bring out the melody in any other situation (eg, playing right hand louder than left, bring out the main voice in a multi-voice texture). But you can get MuseScore to do any of these things by overriding the velocity in the Inspector.
In reply to But MuseScore doesn't, or… by Jojo-Schmitz
In fact, the two outermost notes (low and high) automatically tend to sound more dominant if the other notes are separated by at least by the third.
However, if there are other instruments around, it is possible for the entire chord to remain in the middle part.