Merge notes of two voices together
In this screenshot, I would like to make the upper voice notes superimposed with the lower voice in order to avoid double notes. Is that possible with MuseScore 4?
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Click the notehead in voice 2 that you want to merge and press V to make it invisible.
SteveBlower has explained how to do it, but:
How will you be able to tell that one note is an eighth note with an augmentation dot, and the other is a 16th note without a dot? Or maybe the other way around?
In reply to SteveBlower has explained… by HildeK
It's a very common idiomatic piano notation. If the dots would belong to the sixteenths the total duration of voice 2 would be wrong. The single beams in voice covering 3 sixteenths in voice 2 also give a clue.
In reply to It's a very common idiomatic… by SteveBlower
Yes, the context can tell me that. I was just trying to explain why Musescore notates that way.
Also, I wonder how you can play a sixteenth note and a eighth note with a dot with the same pitch at the same time with one piano? Does such notation make sense for a piano at all? With two pianos yes ...
However: I can not play the piano, I'm just curious.
In reply to Yes, the context can tell me… by HildeK
I (a very inexpert pianist) would interpret it as meaning hold the dotted notes or perhaps just emphasise them while playing the arpeggiated pattern so that they can be heard as a separate voice.
It could be notated omitting the first of each 3 x sixteenth group and having a rest instead but it would look a bit "fussy" and would not show that the syncopation of the dotted eighths is reflected in the accompanying arpeggios so well. Possibly more importantly it would be a less familiar visual pattern for most pianists.
In reply to I (a very inexpert pianist)… by SteveBlower
Thank you for the explanation.
Fortunately, in my sheet music for horn there is only a single voice ... :-).