The use of rhythmic voices and colors |
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Rhythmic voices [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] A rhythmic voice is a sequence of notes
and/or rests which fills the rhythmic duration of a measure.
In a 4/4 measure, here are 3 examples of rhythmic voices: By adding the rhythmic values for each
measure, you get each time 4 beats. It happens that several rhythmic voices
must be written on the same staff, such as for example: The voice term comes from the
vocal music, where each voice sings one melody. The above
example contains 2 voices. The 4 quarter notes belong to
voice 1 and the 2 half notes belong to voice 2. Pizzicato handles up to 8 voices on the
same staff. You may automatically or manually assign the
belonging of notes and rests to voices and view them by
colours. Let us see that with examples.
Using rhythmic voices [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] This option asks Pizzicato to draw notes
with the colour of the voice to which they belong. Click OK. When you add notes with the automatic
justification, Pizzicato automatically assigns the voices to
notes and rests. Each note has the red colour to form the
first rhythmic voice. The use of colours lets you understand the
automatic distribution of voices in the measure. It is only
useful when you create complex measures with many different
voices which imbricate the ones into the others. To encode
notes and rests by rhythmic voices, see the
lesson on the notes and rests introduction.
Using colors [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Guitar] When you click a note with right mouse button (ALT+Click on
the Macintosh), the Edit note play... menu item can be
selected. A dialog appears and let you select, among other
things, the Custom color of the note. Clicking this
color area opens a color palette with which you can modify the
color. The same dialog can also be called by SHIFT clicking a
note in the score. In the Options menu, Graphism... item, there
are four choices for the Use of colors: Only the first choice (Black color) displays the
possible custom colors defined for notes. Some Pizzicato versions have an automatic
color assignment function, based on the note name, the note
frequency or the guitar fingering. You can assign colors to notes in four different ways: Here is a possible result (based on the note names): If the Save choosen colors checkbox is checked,
your color selection will be saved for the next call to this
dialog. You can then customize the color table for note
names, note pitches and fingering. Making a note or a rest invisible [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Pro] It lets you to make a note or a rest invisible. The note or
rest keeps its graphic position and is played but is not
displayed in the score. This feature is mainly used to be able to
hide rests when several rhythmic voices are introduced. Click on
the note or rest and it becomes invisible. By clicking it again,
it becomes visible again. Click on some notes of the measure to
see it happen. In the Graphic options
dialog box (Options
menu), you will find a check box allowing to see invisible
symbols, in case you add an invisible note or rest which you
cannot find any more