Musescore 4 doesn't treat duplet notes correctly.

• Jun 26, 2023 - 00:05

In 6/8 time, a duplet should take up half the measure (2 notes with the time of 3 notes); however, it is only taking up a 1/3 of the measure (2 notes with the time of 2 notes). Also, the beaming is all jacked up.
In this series of attachments, you can see the progress of trying to add 2 duplets to a 6/8 measure, which should use up the whole measure. When I try to add the second duplet, instead it adds one note to the previous duplet and closes out the duplet - not letting me add the second note.
I don't use duplet notes very often, so maybe I am doing it wrong.
duplet1.jpg
duplet2.jpg
duplet3.jpg


Comments

You should understand that to create any "tuplet", including duplet you should start by selecting a note or rest with the same duration of the whole "tuplet". Thus to create a duplet that fills half a measure of 6/8 you must start by selecting a dotted quarter note (or rest) before pressing CTRL+2. You seem to have started by selecting an undotted quarter note.

See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/tuplets
and https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tuplets (older version but working the same and this article provides more examples)

Just visiting this post because I'm having a similar problem.

The time signature is 9/8.

I'm trying to add two quarter notes per beat (first pic), but choosing dotted quarter and then entering "duplet", Musescore writes two eighth notes per dotted quarter beat (second pic)

What am I doing wrong?

In reply to by mahlonb

Thanks to both of you. Yeah, now I've realized I was looking at a very old score and for whatever reason they did the two quarter notes. It was blinding me to the fact that it should really be two eighth notes because there are 9 eighth notes per measure, in groups of three each. Not quarter notes.

So, do you think that this measure in the original score was just a written mistake?

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