Accidentals Tab
The Accidentals & Articutlation pane is used for adding accidentals to notes, for hiding or showing accidentals, for placing parentheses around accidentals and for adjusting the position of accidentals. In every case, notes in the score to be altered are first selected, then the appropriate button is clicked.
To add accidentals to selected images, click on desired accidental button. The top row of buttons is used for adding standard accidentals, the bottom row includes accidentals for making notes: 3/4 flat, 1/4 flat, 1/4 sharp and 3/4 sharp. The last button adds parentheses around the accidental (or removes the parenthesis if the accidental already contains one). The bottom two rows of buttons are for adding 1/8 tones which display an up or a down arrow beside the appropriate 1/4 tone accidental.
To shift accidentals to the enharmonic above or below, click on one of the enharmonic buttons. (The first button - enharmonic above - shifts the selected note(s) to the same sounding pitch but on a higher diatonic step - C# -> Db. The second button - enharmonic below - shifts the selected note(s)to the same sounding pitch on a lower diatonic step - C# - > Bx.). In the example below Bb-C was stated three times, the second time it was enharmonically shifted above, the third time is was enharmonically shifted below:
Accidental positions (i.e. the distance they appear to the left of the note) can be adjusted by clicking on the two arrow buttons. In the example below, the accidental positions of the second chord have been adjusted to the left.
To show or hide cautionary accidentals, click on the Show or Hide buttons. In the example below, the Eb on the 4th beat was not shown when entered. It was created by selected the note, then clicking on the Show button, then clicking on the parenthesis button.
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Articulations Tab
The Articulations pane is used for adding articulations to notes (or chords), for removing them and for changing their position relative to the note. In each case, select the notes to be altered before using the buttons in this pane. (Since the last note entered is automatically considered to be selected, you can click on these buttons after entering a note in order to add an articulation to the note.
To add an articulation to a selected note or group of notes
The example below shows the 3 location options - each pair of notes is set to a different location:
To remove an articulation from a selected note or group of notes, click on the Clear button.
To change the position of articulations, set whether the location of the articulation and set the distance in staff spaces that the articulation should appear above or below notes, then click on the Set Pos button.
In the example below, the position of articulations (which appear above or below notes) have been changed from 3 to 5 staff spaces:
To large Up and Down arrows are provided for a shortcut for position adjustments to the articulations of selected notes.
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Menu items
The pull down menu located at the top-right corner of this pane is a duplicate the NoteAbilityPro Modify/Notes menu and contains the following menu items:
| Enharmonic Above | shift selected notes to the enharmonic a step above |
| Enharmonic Below | shift selected notes to the enharmonic a step below |
| Show Accidental | show the accidental regardless of the current accidental rule |
| Hide Accidental | hide the accidental regardless of the current accidental rule |
| Force Sharps and Flats | force sharps and flats on selected notes to be shown |
| Acc Parentheses On/Off | toggle parentheses around accidentals on or off |
| Ficta On/Off | toggle ficta accidentals On/Off (ficta accidentals appear above the notes rather than to the left of them) |
See also
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