Enter Chord with top and bottom modifiers in Musescore
I have a few old printouts of music pieces, which I am trying to enter into Musescore. (The paper prints are old and won't survive much longer with any use.) While everything is going fine, I'm struggling with one piece having a particular chord notation. For example, this one:
or this one:
or even this one:
I can get, for example, C9 displayed correctly with 9 being offset below by playing around with styles. Yet I can't manage to get the - or + signs to be treated as part of the modifiers - if anything, it looks like C-9. And I can't get anywhere near C-9+5.
Is there a way to enter such chords in Musescore? I'm using version 3.3.
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Well, it's possible with a bit of ingenuity, or disingenuity:
Add Stave text for the letter (attached to the note) and move it so it's positioned correctly. Add a figured bass (Add ▸ Text ▸ Figured bass, or Ctrl-G) to the note — you can use a carriage-return to put numbers below others, and + and - appear correctly. Move the figured bass from below the note to be next to the letter.
If you're happy with using styles, then you can change the font and default placement of the figured bass so it uses Times Roman figures and appears above the stave. You'll probably still need to adjust it horizontally.
To use just a single figure, say the -9, just use a carriage-return to enter the blank line above it.
I don't know if MuseScore will play figured bass, but if it does then it's probably a good idea to mark the figures as not playing!
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