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CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Cross notehead
 Cue-note
 Diamond notehead
 Headless note

See manual for: other special noteheads

See also Grace-notes, Notes and chords, Trans-
 fers


INTRODUCTION

  The keys Shift- and Ctrl-F11/F12 give the
  selected note or chord four special noteheads.
  The keys are toggles.

  When you copy notes special noteheads are
  copied too, so when transcribing a passage of
  (say) cue-notes, you only need to press Shift-
  F12 for the first one.


CROSS NOTEHEAD (Ctrl-F11)

  This indicates a note of uncertain pitch,
  sometimes used for untuned percussion instru-
  ments. When pressed on a chord, Ctrl-F11 makes
  all the noteheads in the chord into crosses.

  If you don't want all of a chord's noteheads
  to become crosses, you can use the cross
  notehead on the Transfers window. Alternative-
  ly, you can split the chord between two
  voices.


CUE-NOTE (Shift-F12)

  A cue-note is a small note, typically used in
  cues in instrumental parts or for editorial
  additions. Unlike grace-notes, cue-notes take
  up rhythmic space in a bar.

  When pressed on a chord, Shift-F12 makes all
  the noteheads in the chord become small. As
  for cross noteheads, you can use a transfer if
  you want just some of a chord's noteheads to
  become cue-notes. Alternatively, you can split
  the chord between two voices.


DIAMOND NOTEHEAD (Shift-F11)

  This indicates a note which is fingered but
  not played. It is usually used on stringed
  instruments to notate a harmonic, but is also
  used (e.g. by Schoenberg) to indicate piano
  keys depressed silently. On a chord, you can
  make all noteheads or just the top notehead
  into a diamond, depending on whether you
  select just the top notehead or the whole
  chord.


HEADLESS NOTE (Ctrl-F12)

  This is sometimes used, like the cross note-
  head, to mean a note of indefinite pitch.
  Stravinsky and Lutoslawski also use it to
  indicate a repetition of the preceding note or
  chord.

  Headless notes are selected and dragged by
  clicking where the notehead should be (i.e. to
  one side of the stem).
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00000830  6d 29 2e 0d 24                                    |m)..$|
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