Consolidating Measures of rests

• Sep 2, 2022 - 03:45

So for my MUED class we have to basically recreate a part given to us. I've consolidated every other measure of rest except for the C section and I can't seem to figure it out. Any help?

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Comments

Jm6stringer

• Sep 2, 2022 - 04:00

See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/measure-rests#multimeasure-rest

Do you have a MuseScore (.mscz) file instead of the pdf file you attached?

Marc Sabatella

• Sep 2, 2022 - 04:19

The "C" section isn't empty - you've added a bunch of quarter rests, so the measures aren't considered empty Just select that passage and hit Delete to remove them and replace them with ordinary measure rests.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 2, 2022 - 04:20

I think rests still count as empty

Marc Sabatella

• Sep 2, 2022 - 04:23

I wasn't sure, so I tested - they don't.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 2, 2022 - 09:13

Darn, so I remembered incorrectly.
Might be seen as a bug though?

SteveBlower

• Sep 2, 2022 - 09:31

Surely not a bug but by design.

If a user has entered individual rests in a measure, the presumption should be that the user wants them to be seen. MuseScore shouldn't assume that what user did is not what the user intended - even if it probably isn't what the user intended in most cases.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 2, 2022 - 09:34

Indeed:

//---------------------------------------------------------
// validMMRestMeasure
//    return true if this might be a measure in a
//    multi measure rest
//---------------------------------------------------------
 
static bool validMMRestMeasure(const LayoutContext& ctx, Measure* m)
{
...
            // measure is not empty if there is more than one rest
            if (n > 1) {
                return false;
            }

It is not picking on full measure rests only though

Marc Sabatella

• Sep 2, 2022 - 15:51

True about full measure rest vs any other single rest (eg, a whole rest in 4/4, a half rest in 2/4, etc. That much is probably just a little bit of programming laziness, but it also could be desired behavior. After all, in some time signatures like 4/2, people do often like to show an actual duration rest (breve) instead of the full measure rest. But probably not something that comes up often.