

With the shift key held (or the CapsLock on) 0-6 edits the duration of the note at the cursor. They insert a duration at the cursor, which you then give a pitch to with a note name. Numbers 0-6 are used to refer to the note durations Whole Note \SpecialChar ldots 64th Note. Letters A-G (either CapsLock or Shift) tapped twice insert a note at the cursor.

Letters a-g edit the note at the cursor to be A-G, if the cursor is in the appending position then notes are added. Here are a few of the keyboard shortcuts that are commonly used in Denemo. a good guide especially for non-native speakers of English.All staffs with the same part name (or with none) are typeset together by the Print Part ↓ command. Part is used with a special sense in Denemo: each staff has a part name associated with it (printed at top left of the staff, with a green background for editing it).So the Markup to System spacing is the spacing between the last title and the first staff. Generally when you need to specify a distance in Denemo this is the unit used. Staff Spaces a unit of measurement: the distance between adjacent lines in a staff.In Denemo this may even include syntax for snippets of music, note-names fret diagrams etc., so that these can appear in the text. titles – that can have additional characters to indicate bold or italic, repositioning etc. If the notes are of different durations then they have to be placed in separate voices, they can’t be a chord, though they may appear so (by sharing stems) in the typeset.Ī system ↓is what might be called a “line” of the music on the page, that is all the music (over several staffs) that sounds together starting at the left-hand margin and ending at the right margin. Voices are normally displayed on separate staffs in the Denemo Display to make them easy to edit the LilyPond typesetter has the task of placing them on the same staff.Ī chord ↓ is one or more notes of the same duration making a single musical object. The term voice ↓ is used in two senses: as a line of music moving independently on a staff, and (as in Voice 1, Voice 2), a voice that has its stems in one direction, with corresponding changes to the placing of ties, slurs, ornaments etc). A Denemo staff may also be typeset as a line of Chord Symbols ↓, Fret Diagrams ↓, or a line of dynamics markings above or below some other staff. Besides the terms well-known to musicians, music notation has some specialized names and Denemo uses some terms with specific meanings which you should know:Ī movement ↓ is a continous stretch of music (all the measures following on from each other) such as a song in a songbook, or a movement in a symphony.Ī score ↓ is one or more movements usually interspersed with titles.Ī staff ↓ has the usual meaning, but note that it may contain several lines of music (voices).
