Tonal Display
Contents
- Tonality
- Editor Scale
- Cadences, Degrees and Figuring
- Modulation
Tonal display options concern all musical objects with possible tonal harmonic or melodic progressions : chord-seqs, multi-seqs, voices and polys .
Tonality
Editor Preferences
The Editor preferences
tab provides a number of options and tools, which
relate to tonality expression and analysis.
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Tonality Dialogue Window
To choose a tonality
-
select the editor and press
t
. -
A tonality dialogue window pops up.
-
Select the
Minor
orMajor
mode in the pop up menu, and a key signature via the<
and>
buttons. -
The tonality is indicated on the upper left corner of the editor, as well as a conventional key signature.
To restore the original “atonal” configuration, press SHIFT
+ t
.
Enharmony
OM automatically assigns the expected accidentals, depending on the chosen tonality. Accidentals can though be modified enharmonically.
To modify an accidental :
-
select the note tool,
-
Ctrl
click on a note and select an item.
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Editor Scale
The default accidental notation system in score editors uses sharps. This system can be modified, to a certain extent.
The Editor Scale
dialogue window offers a limited number of enharmonic
accidentals, based on the standard twelve semitones notation.
This especially makes sense when using a tonal or modal semitones scale pattern.
To specify a scale
-
select an editor and press
s
. -
The
Editor Scale
dialogue window opens. -
Choose
Edit
.
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To assign an enharmonic accidental to a note, Ctrl
/ right click on it and
select a menu item.
Modifications of the default scale are displayed by the dialogue window.
Click on Default
to reset the default scale.
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Cadences, Degrees and Figuring
An elementary tonal analysis tool is implemented in musical editors. It is
based on the options provided in the Editor preferences
:
Degrees
Cadences
Figuring
The analysis takes place as chords are being edited, provided OM can recognize a listed chord and chord progression.
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Modulation
Specifying Modulations
Modulations can be specified textually in the score editor.
-
Select a section in a score and press
t
. -
Choose a tonality.
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Boundaries
OM displays the modulation but it doesn’t automatically adapt the key signature or accidentals to the new tonality.
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