MS4 issue: Parentheses leave out accidentals
The note property Notehead Parentheses doesn’t include any attached accidental. Besides making little sense, this creates legibility issues, especially in the case of cue notes.
As here:
I’m aware it’s possible to add brackets just to the accidental, which is a different thing.
Though the feature is called NOTEHEAD Parentheses, I’m unable to imagine a real case scenario where one would want to leave out the accidental, if there is one.
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To hopefully heat up a bit the interest in the subject, here are two practical examples of how parentheses/brackets around notes are done “right” (i.e. in a really useful way). From Alban Berg’s ‘Lyrische Suite’, mov. II:
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In this case the F3 is of course outside the violin’s range, it should be just “imagined”:
And here the bracketed notes are optional. Notice that the F#4’s accidental AND augmentation dot are INSIDE the parentheses. For all 3 belong together:
As far as I know at this stage, doing this in MS4 would require fumbling per hand with symbols or text. So what is Notehead Parentheses actually good for?