musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Brush Swishes Notation

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Description

Your idea

Please add the symbol line for brush swishes to the "lines" palette.
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Image from Music Notation in the Twentieth Century.

Problem to be solved

Musescore cannot notate this.

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Research direction

Start by locating the implementation of the "lines" palette and reviewing how existing notation symbols are represented and rendered. Add the brush-swishes symbol line so it can be selected and used like the other line items, then verify that it appears correctly in the palette and score.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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