chord symbols: using roman numerals and flats?
I made a simple chart today with a variety of turnarounds using the jazz template in V2. All I wanted was slash notes and roman numeral chords, i.e., I-VI-ii-bII7-I. However, every time I entered a 'b' for a flat, as in bII7, musescore changed the lowercase b to a capital B. How can I prevent this from occurring?
Thanks for the help,
Bob
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see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting-0#style-edit-ge…, untick "Automatic Capitalization"
But note that what you are doing are not really chord symbols, not in the sense MuseScore understands them, so they won't transpose correctly nor export properly to MusicXML
In reply to see by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. Understood about using roman numerals and not being able to transpose etc. In this case, not a problem, but I will keep in mind in the future.
In reply to Thanks. Understood about by Bob_B
Concerning transposition, a chord progression represented as I-IV-V-I (i.e. tonic-subdominant-dominant-tonic) has no need to be transposed, yes?
Regards.
In reply to Concerning transposition, a by Jm6stringer
yes, but if it start with a b, like in the example given by the OP, that 'chord' will get transposed ;-)
The other downside of doing it this way is that the "b" won't turn into a real flat sign. And none of the supplied standard fonts really look great for Roman numerals. Ultimately, we should have a better way of entering Roman numeral notation. There is the figured bass system, but it isn't optimzied for this usage either.