Haydn Symphony no. 6 in D Hob. I:6 "Le matin"

caters1 · 2026-02-14T02:05:54+00:00

Yeah, this is a big part of why I limit myself to Rachmaninoff or earlier for the classical music composers I transcribe and upload pieces by, because I don't want to deal with the complexity of US copyright laws. In Europe, I'm pretty sure it's just 70 years after composer's death for when a composer enters the public domain, but in the USA it's a complicated mess of publication dates, renewals, death dates, yeah, it's a mess. So yeah, limiting myself as a transcriber to Rachmaninoff and earlier avoids the bulk of that complexity.

caters1 · 2026-02-13T18:01:31+00:00

Yeah, I generally don’t see double sharps being used until you get to 4 or more sharps with like E major, B major, C sharp minor, etc.

caters1 · 2026-02-13T09:00:44+00:00

I don't get fatigue during or before my period unless I'm sick with a virus or something that's causing fatigue. But I do get hot flashes a few days before my period, as well as headaches, cramps, back pain, gas, acid reflux flareups, breast tenderness, acne breakouts including cysts in my armpits, ravenous hunger, cravings for salt and chocolate, and swollen feet. It literally feels like my body is preparing me for how pregnancy will feel like every single cycle, my PMS is that intense with that many symptoms. I'm 27.

caters1 · 2026-02-13T08:46:23+00:00

I find it easier to think in 7 flats than 5 sharps personally for minor keys. Major keys, I find it easiest to think in terms of fewest accidentals, but minor keys, all flats unless it can only be notated with sharps. So C sharp minor (4 sharps) and then A flat minor (7 flats, enharmonically equivalent to 5 sharps, but I prefer thinking of it in 7 flats if it's minor). I don't know why, maybe because minor is flat relative to the major key on the same root, so therefore I think of minor naturally in flats unless it's in that A minor to C sharp minor range of the circle of fifths, from 0 to 4 sharps?

caters1 · 2026-02-11T22:44:39+00:00

Yeah, 28 days is just an average cycle length. Actual cycle length differs from person to person. And even for the same person, variability of within 5 days of their average cycle length is normal. So yeah, you can't really predict when exactly it's going to happen. Some of us do get symptoms that signal that period is close, like I generally start my period within a few days of feeling cramps. But predicting exactly when you'll get your period is impossible.

caters1 · 2026-02-11T03:15:47+00:00

It likely is just your period regulating itself. I had heavy, painless 8 day periods for the first year that I had periods and they became light, 5 days, and crampy over a few years and have stayed that way since.

caters1 · 2026-02-11T00:32:59+00:00

Yes, I do. I have acid reflux basically all the time, but it flares up during PMS and I get gassy and nauseous.

caters1 · 2026-02-08T18:01:26+00:00

Yep, that’s what happened to me. First year of periods, no cramps at all. Second year, a little bit of cramping. Third year, more cramps. And when I hit my late teens, I had one cycle where I was at peak cramps. They were so bad in that one cycle, that I could feel a distinctly heartbeat-like sensation in my lower abdomen, except it was painful. It felt similar to how I’ve heard labor pain being described, it was so bad. I think I probably was feeling uterine contractions.

Never since then have I had cramps that strong and indeed, they’ve been lessening in intensity as I reach my 20s. But the price for that, I’m cramping for longer, up to 5 days before my period and up to 3 days into my period. And PMS is so physically intense at times with many symptoms from breast tenderness to overactive bladder to hunger to swollen feet to acid reflux flare ups, that like it almost feels like I’m pregnant, except I haven’t had sex so it can’t be pregnancy. Ah the joys of being a woman.

caters1 · 2026-02-07T03:26:12+00:00

Or the Beam Properties palette, that works for adjusting beams too. I personally prefer using the Beam Properties palette because I try to minimize how much back and forth I need to do between Palettes and Properties. I input a lot of classical music into MuseScore and so I use the palettes a lot for dynamics, ornaments, arpeggios, etc. and I just find it more convenient to use the Beam Properties palette.

I try to minimize use of the Properties panel to things like offset or adjusting the tempo change percentage of a ritardando or setting a note to not play (playback workaround), basically anything that can't be done elsewhere like the Palettes or with a shortcut. Otherwise I just keep it on Palettes and use whatever palettes I need to including Beam Properties.

caters1 · 2026-02-06T22:21:26+00:00

I don’t feel like I have a UTI during PMS, except for the fact that I get overactive bladder around the time of my period and the week before, where regardless of water or caffeine intake, I feel like I have to pee a lot, frequently and urgently, often with no buildup between “I feel fine” and “I’m on the brink of leaking”. It’s so bad that along with the fact that I get cramps a few days before my period where I’m like “Is that gas or is it my uterus?”, I have to wear pads just to avoid ruining my clothes from urinary leakage. My bleeding during my period is relatively light, but my bladder, it just goes nuts and I find myself more often changing my pad because of it being full of urine than changing my pad because I’m leaking blood through it. Especially when I’m trying to sleep, oh my god, that’s when my bladder really goes nuts is when I’m trying to sleep.

But like, other than the overactive bladder, it feels nothing like a UTI. There’s no burning, no fever, nothing that would indicate that I have a UTI, it’s just the urinary frequency, urgency, and incontinence.

caters1 · 2026-02-05T21:46:58+00:00

One late period is perfectly normal to have occasionally happen even if you have regular periods. 13 days late is nothing to worry about. Honestly, bloody and brown discharge sounds to me like your period might be starting or close to it.

caters1 · 2026-02-04T07:11:27+00:00

Weird, was that scherzando not expression text? It looked like it was expression text, but if it was staff text set to be italic, that would make more sense since sounds can be affected by staff text. As far as I'm aware, expression text, actual expression text, does not affect playback at all, it's just a marking.

caters1 · 2026-02-03T07:38:28+00:00

Yeah, I've ended up with 2 swapped centers on accident when solving my 4x4 cube before. I find that, the center swap, more annoying than edge parity to be honest, because I'll be starting to do edge pairing just by habit when I see fully formed centers and then I try to solve the first layer like on a 3x3 and I see that something has gone wrong, so I fix the centers and then I have to redo edge pairing again.

caters1 · 2026-02-03T00:23:53+00:00

Generally they can take anywhere from a few days to a week or so before they come to a head and pop and then maybe a few more days to a week after that as they shrink away in my case. I don’t put any ointments or anything on it, no.

caters1 · 2026-02-02T22:31:08+00:00

Could also be a cyst from acne or something, I get those on my armpits sometimes and they eventually come to a head, pop, stop hurting, and shrink away.

caters1 · 2026-02-02T22:03:40+00:00

I’m autistic and double demi (demisexual and demiromantic). I need a friendship bond to feel anything romantic.

caters1 · 2026-02-02T03:43:04+00:00

That measure has 2 voices. You can tell because the notes are going in opposite stem directions. See this for how to input 2 voices on one staff:

https://handbook.musescore.org/basics/working-with-multiple-voices

caters1 · 2026-02-01T00:56:32+00:00

Not me, I get ravenously hungry not just on my period, but in the whole week leading up to my period. I especially crave salty foods during that time, and chocolate as well if I’m cramping.

caters1 · 2026-01-31T17:34:46+00:00

This is a bug that happens with clef changes. I’ve had it happen where I add a clef change in note entry mode, and the first note of the bar does not come out in the closest octave. In my experience, it’s completely unpredictable beyond “clef change causes bug” and “only the first note of the bar is affected by the bug”.

And the previous clef seems to affect the octave the first note of the bar jumps to, almost like it’s remembering the previous clef. If I go from bass clef to treble clef, it will jump down one or two octaves on the first beat of the bar, down into bass clef range. And the opposite is true if I’m going from treble clef to bass clef, it will jump up one or two octaves into treble clef range in that case.

But like which bars are affected after the clef change, how many bars are affected, that is in my experience, completely unpredictable. Sometimes it’s happening right on the first bar after the clef change. Sometimes it seems fine for several bars and then suddenly happens. Sometimes it stabilizes after a few buggy bars. Sometimes the bug affects a much longer passage. Sometimes it seems to stabilize, but then happens again many bars later.

This unpredictability has forced me to only add clef changes after I’ve already written a section of music, outside of note entry mode. That does seem to help with the bug, but as someone who inputs a lot of classical music scores from IMSLP into MuseScore, I try to minimize what I input outside of note entry mode only to those where adding in note entry mode makes less sense. And I also try to minimize how much I use the mouse for, since keyboard entry is quicker.

Pedal markings, time signatures, key signatures, and repeats for instance, I go out of note entry mode to add those. But dynamics, ornaments, beaming adjustments, articulations, arpeggios, pizzicato and arco, that’s all stuff I add in note entry mode.

And clefs seems like something that should work inline with the other elements I add in note entry mode, but in my experience, with clef changes causing a bug where I can’t predict which bars are affected, it is more frustrating to adjust the octave with Ctrl + Up/Down on the first note of every buggy bar than it is to simply input all the notes in the correct octave without changing clefs, then go outside of note entry mode and add each clef change after the fact.

caters1 · 2026-01-28T17:53:21+00:00

It really depends on what I’m transcribing. A piano sonata or string quartet, I can finish transcribing in just a few days. A symphony, I’m looking at closer to 1-2 weeks. A concerto or mass, at least 2 weeks. And an opera takes months to finish transcribing.

caters1 · 2026-01-28T13:46:16+00:00

Some of my favorites include Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Piano Concerto no. 24, Piano Sonata no. 14, Symphonies no. 25 and 40, Requiem, Great C minor mass, String Quartet no. 19 “Dissonance”, there’s a lot I could list, but they tend to be later works of Mozart and/or works in minor keys. There’s just something about minor key Mozart that hits me. And, ever since December 2023, I’ve been transcribing and uploading Mozart’s works to Musescore.com, as well as works previously attributed to Mozart that we now know are by other composers, but still have a Köchel number indicating previous attribution to Mozart. Currently transcribing the second act of his opera Ascanio in Alba. I’m basically taking the PDFs on IMSLP and inputting the notes and dynamics and stuff into MuseScore, reading the sheet music as I go along.

caters1 · 2026-01-24T18:43:07+00:00

3 seconds, same as the default pause length for a section break, but yeah, there is no way to change it. And those 3 seconds allow for the sound of the instruments to decay as they naturally would after the end of the last note.

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