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Standard Music Font Layout
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Oriental accidental missing #170

Open dminaker opened 3 years ago

dminaker commented 3 years ago

Hello I am using MuseScore to complete a thesis on Tunisian melodic modes. They have a special accidental system to convey degrees of sharpness and flatness. While there are other practice accidentals available in the accidentals pallette such as the Flat and Sharp with up and down arrows, I prefer to use the 'authentic' symbols when writing about them for my academic paper. MuseScore already has most of the symbols I need accept ONE: a flat symbol with a tick on the left side of the stem. You can see the accidental I need circled in the attached screenshot of Persian accidentals. Can you please add this symbol so that MuseScore's oriental accidenals are more complete? Thank you

persian acidentals

dminaker commented 3 years ago

FYI you can see all of the Tunisian accidentals in this photo:

accidentals of Tunisian music

dspreadbury commented 2 years ago

@dminaker, do you have a source that describes the degree of flatness represented by this symbol? Thanks!

dminaker commented 2 years ago

Hello, thank you for replying. Yes. In the eighth volume Al-Turath al-Musiqa al-Tunisiya (1980) by the Tunisian musicologist Salah el-Mahdi there is a description of three degrees of flatness and sharpness that span the range of the semitone, which are those shown in the photograph above. According to el-Mahdi in that volume, the accidentals represent (from highest to lowest) +50% (full sharp), +40%, +30%, +20% 0, -20%, -30%, -40%, -50% (full flat). These accidentals were re-printed in Ruth Davis' Ma'luf: Reflections on the Arab Andalusian Music of Tunisia (2004, p. 12). See attached screenshot of the flats from this page. So the accidental I'm requesting would be -40%. Evernote Snapshot 20171124 111524 .