Darcy James Argue wrote:
I have a question for the Sibelius users in the house.
This recently came up at a BMI Jazz Composers Workshop session -- the
participant had a 3/4 measure containing four eighth note quadruplets,
filling the measure. The other participants pointed out to her that
this was incorrect -- it should be four _quarter note_ quadruplets. She
replied that Sibelius wouldn't let her enter quarter note quadruplets,
and that the notation she had played back correctly (i.e., 4-over-3) in
Sibelius.
I was kind of incredulous, because that's not exactly an uncommon
rhythm, and while it's staggering that Sib notates it incorrectly by
default, I was pretty sure there must be a way to override Sib's
ignorance and get the correct notation -- four quarter note quadruplets
in the space of three quarter notes.
Well, perhaps it's just my ignorance of Sibelius, but I couldn't figure
any way to get it to work! I kept getting an error message every time I
tried to enter quarter note quadruplets in a 3/4 measure. It was just
as the participant had said -- Sibelius forces you to use incorrect
notation (eighth note quadruplets that fill an entire 3/4 measure).
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workaround? I mean, we all bitch
about Finale, and we've all looked enviously at Sib's dynamic parts,
etc, but this is a pretty egregious error with no obvious workaround.
I wonder if she changed the meter to 4/4 for that measure, entered the
tuplet, then changed the meter back, if it would be possible to enter
things correctly.
--
David H. Bailey
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