The music editor have a static tool bar under the menu including:
The first button activate a separate menu of execution or editing.
These is similar to those available on MOODS.
In the second case they are used when there are measure starting in ''levare'' or for the presence of ''inizio-fine'' refrain in the middle of a measure. In that cases the rests have t o be added to make the measure time consitent but they have not to be visible. For these reasons the combinations:
Notes and rests may be in the following status:
The using of this menu allows the insertion of all kind of notes, in particular the buttons from left to right perform the following operations: Insert a Double whole note; Insert a Whole note; Insert a Half note; Insert a Quarter note; Insert a Eight note; Insert a Sixteenth note; Insert a Thirty-second note; Insert a Sixty-fourth note; Insert a One hundred twenty-eight note;
For example
A,B,C…. ….(A)
3,4,5 also with (6), [6]
The using of this menu allows changing a normal note in a little one and vice versa, in particular from left to right we have: From normal note to little; From Small Note to normal; From normal note to grace note small; from normal to grace note normal.
It has to be possible to grace also beam and chords. Small and normal size.
There are also small notes that has to be considered as note of full duration differently from the grace notes. This is imposed via editing the note.
The using of this menu allows changing a normal note to a note beam, in particular from left to right we have: Converts some notes to beam; Converts a beam to separated notes. Beam a Measure, beam a Part, Beam all the score with all parts are provided into the fomatting menu.
For tuples a dialog box appear to:
The tuples could be also nested. This means for example
that in a group with 15th a tuplet with 3 notes can be inserted.
The using of this menu allows the insertion of all kind of rest, and the insertion of spaces, in particular the buttons from left to right perform the following operations: Insert a Four measure rest; Insert a Two measure rest; Insert a Whole rest; Insert a Half rest; Insert a Quarter rest; Insert a Eight rest; Insert a Sixteenth rest; Insert a Thirty-second rest; Insert a Sixty-fourth rest; Insert a One hundred twenty-eight rest; Insert a Multiple-measure rest; Three versions of fermata symbols with the same meaning.
Please note that rests can be even hidden, in the sense
that it is needed to insert rests that do not have to be visualised. This
is needed when the rest have to be inserted for satisfy the processing
of measure checking in duration, but do not have to be visualised since
the convention is to place a unique rest for all the measure even if the
measure is not covered. This happen quite frequently in the presence of
polyphonic music, when more voices are present.
The using of this menu allows the insertion of accidentals on notes, in particular from left to right we have: Inserts a quarter Sharp on a note; Inserts a Sharp on a note; Inserts a Three quarter sharp on a note; Inserts a quarter Flat on a note; Inserts a Flat on a note; Inserts a Three quarter Flat on a note; Inserts a Natural on a note; Inserts a Double sharp on a note; Inserts a Double flat on a note, natural down, natural up.
All the above symbols can be present in big and small size, with () or without.
The using of this menu allows the insertion of augmentation dots and ties, in particular from left to right we have: Augmentation Dot: inserts a single augmentation dot; Augmentation Dot: inserts a double augmentation dot; Augmentation Dot: inserts a triple augmentation dot; Insert a Tie.
The using of this menu allows inserting repeats, in particular from left to right we have: Beat repeat, Half measure repeat, Measure repeat, repeated notes.
In the last 2 cases a dialog asking for a number has to be opened. In the first case the number is placed over the symbol, in the last case the number corresponds to the number of lines on the stem.
The using of this menu allows inserting and modifying bars, inserting, deleting bars and deleting an entire column of bars; additionally this menu allows the Copy and Paste of bars, in particular the buttons from left to right perform the following operations: Insert a Barline; Insert a Double barline; Insert a Heavy double barline; Insert a Left repeat barline; Insert a Right repeat barline; Insert a Double repeat barline; simple dashed barline, simple dotted barline, invisible barline.
The single barline can be continuos, dashed and dotted in the last two cases these are not marking the end of a measure but are only placed for dividing measures in parts. Dashed and dotted single barlines are performed by using the line style on the status bar.
The empty button is the have the possibility of inserting hidden/invisible barlines. They are strongly useful for modern music.
The using of this menu allows inserting and to modifying clefs, in particular the buttons from left to right perform the following operations: Insert a G clef, Treble; Insert a F clef, Bass; Insert a Baritone clef; Insert a Tenor clef; Insert An octave Tenor clef; Insert an Alto clef; Insert a Mezzo-soprano clef; Insert a Soprano clef; Insert an Octave G clef, Tenorized Treble; Insert an Octave F clef…. The last are for Tablatures, percussions and the empty cleff.
The using of this menu allows inserting new part, changing the name of the part, inserting brackets and deleting parts, in particular from left to right we have: Assign or change the part name; Brace: inserts a brace bracket used for grouping parts; Quadra: inserts a square bracket used for grouping parts.
This menu allows inserting the Horizontal symbols like slur, crescendo, diminuendo and others that involve a group of symbols such as octaves and 15-esimes. From left to right the buttons performing the following operations: Crescendo: inserts a crescendo symbol among a group of notes; Diminuendo: inserts a diminuendo symbol among a group of notes; 15ma is used when in over the staff and 15mb when is under. 8va is used when is over the staff and 8ba when is under.
All the above symbols (apart for the wave and the change of octave and 15-esime) can be in continuos, dashed or dotted lines. For this reason the best solution is to have toggle buttons to pass from a version to another, see status line, line style button. According to that solution the first two buttons are only for round slurs and squared slurs depending on the status of the line type.
The list of typical symbols for Label whould be acuqired.
Refrain Change: inserts a refrain change symbol among a group of notes;
Also the insertion of symbols D.C. (da capo) and the D.S. (dal segno) are needed. D.S. is the jump instruction of the symbol that can be placed with the second button.
This menu allows to insert expression symbols. These can be composed according to the rules state in Milla. It is possible to insert at most 10 different Expressions symbols on the same note including generic expressions that a re expression symbols defined by the user.
For the definition of a generic expression the user has to perform the following actions:
Before using a generic expression, which usually is referred to a note, as is for signs of musical expression, the user must design the font to use in the WEDEL Editor using appropriate tools. The tools that can be used to design the new font are for example "Fontographer". In the Fontographer program the user can design the new font for the generic expression in order to fit the notation to his very particular needs.
After the font has been designed it has to be inserted in a table for its correct positioning in relation to the note to which it is referred.
The table has already some spaces left empty in order to facilitate this operation; the parameters to set in the table are those referring to the default positioning in relation to the note: the user can define if the symbol he has designed must be drawn on the left of the notehead or more centered and so on. A sort of tuning is requested in this phase to adjust the symbol respect to the note. See the relative section on the font table in this document for more details.
See Section "MILLA Formatter" for more details about the formatting engine.
For example it is possible to define the immission above the notehead or on the stem of the note. This is a typical up/down insertion solved by MILLA in an automatic way to take in account various scenarios. Typical example is for poliphony: in this case the expression must be inserted above the note for the upper voice on the staff and below the note for the lower voice of the staff. In the following the rules above or below are written as onstem and oppositetostem (thus on the notehead) because in another section of MILLA when in poliphony the stems of the notes belonging to the upper voice are all drawn upward, and the stems of the notes belonging to the lower voice are all written downward.
The token AccentiGen refer to a particular accent inserted by the user. To make a link between a token in MILLA and a font in the font table the user can still use MILLA rules:
*************** RULE****************/
…
DEFSYM "Tenuto" GROUP="AccentiGen" CODE=095 DIM=1,1,3,3,-5,0
The token "Tenuto", which is a particular expression with the musical meaning of keeping the note (playing "legato" for breath instruments), is linked thanks to the above rule with the correct font coded with number 095 in the font table.
Following are listed some possible rules and condition of application for the group of symbols AccentiGen.
*************** RULES****************/
RULEIMM AccentiGen0 DEFAULT "AccentiGen" RELNOTA OPPOSITETOSTEM;
RULEIMM AccentiGen1 ALTERNATIVE "AccentiGen" RELNOTA ONSTEM;
*************** CONDITIONS****************/
immIF NOTE INSINGLELAYER THEN AccentiGen0;
immIF NOTE INMULTIVOICE THEN AccentiGen1;
More positioning conditions can be stated to move the default positioning of the symbol as in the table referred to in point 2, on the left/right or up/down (DX and DY below) respect to the musical context of various scenarios. For example if the note is on a space of the staff or across a line.
*************** RULES****************/
RULEPOS AccentiGen2 STAC RELNOTA ONSPACE OUTSIDESTAFF DX=0 DY=0;
RULEPOS AccentiGen3 STAC RELNOTA ONLINE ONSTAFF DX=0 DY=0.5;
*************** CONDITIONS****************/
posIF OPPOSITETOSTEM THEN AccentiGen2;
posIF ONSTEM THEN AccentiGen2;
posIF ALTERNATIVE OPPOSITETOSTEM ONLINE THEN AccentiGen3;
The using of this menu allows inserting ornaments on notes, in particular from left to right we have:
Trill: inserts a trill symbol with an user defined number of waves; it should be managed as a interval symbol since its length depends on the positioning of the last point. It can be a figure or a point without any reference to a symbol. This is typically called anchorage.
Turn: inserts a turn symbol on a note; Backturn: inserts a backturn on a note; Turn: inserts a turn symbol between notes; Backturn: inserts a turn symbol between notes; SuperiorMordent: inserts a superior mordent symbol on a note; InferiorMordent: inserts an inferior mordent symbol on a note; DoubleSuperior Mordent: inserts a double superior mordent symbol on a note; Double InferiorMordent: inserts a double superior mordent symbol on a note; Tremolo: inserts a tremolo symbol on a note (a parameter N is asked to get the number of lines); Glissando: inserts a glissando symbol on a note; Glissonda/ GlissWave: inserts a glissando which is drawn with a wave; Arpeggiato: inserts an arpeggiato symbol on a chord; It should be up or down with the v; Arpeggiato UP: see above; Aepeggiato Down: see above.ù
The last button is a toggle button that states if the finger number inserted are rounded, non rounded or heavy rounded.
Mute menu provides some buttons for inserting symbols related to mute. In particular from left to right we find:
Typically, harmonics symbols can appear in different ways.
These symbols are only for remembering to the musicians to take care (Glasses) or a breath (comma). The last is to remember that the measure is beat in 4 beats (in N beats as state during the symbol insertion) by the orchestra conductor.
Bow up; Bow down; Arco: the note must be
played with arc; Pizz.: play in Pizzicato way; Use Bow Point;
Use Bow Hell; Pont: the note must be played on bridge; Tast:
the note must be played on fingerboard;
NOT YET IMPLEMENTED