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Notation reference
Notes
Notes are shapes that are positioned on staves to indicate musical pitches. Notes are most commonly shown with oval-shaped, round noteheads that are either filled or void depending on their duration, but there are many different designs of noteheads that you can use.
Notehead sets
A notehead set is a collection of related noteheads that together allow you to represent all the different noteheads required for the different durations used in music notation.
Changing the notehead design project-wide
You can change the notehead design of all noteheads project-wide, for example, if you are working on an educational project and want to show the note name in every notehead.
Showing differently shaped noteheads for each scale degree project-wide
You can show each degree of the scale with a different notehead design project-wide.

Showing differently shaped noteheads for each scale degree project-wide

You can show each degree of the scale with a different notehead design project-wide.

Procedure

Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-E to open Engraving Options.
Click Notes in the category list.
In the Noteheads section, choose one of the following options for Shaped noteheads based on scale degree:
- Walker 4-shape
- Walker 7-shape
- Funk 7-shape
- Aikin 7-shape

Result

The notehead design of all noteheads project-wide is changed to show a different notehead design for each degree of the scale, depending on your selection.

Note

This does not change the notehead design of noteheads whose design you have changed individually, for example, if you changed selected notes to have diamond noteheads.