It is a nice challenge for the developers, so if they want to do it for their fun, they can do it (although I would suggest to go to the beach instead, but this is only my preference.). Instead of helping them, you created a problem. if they buy regular music, go abroad, etc.), they will not be able to read it. Nobody would suggest that, I think.Īnd worse: if people learn to read music from right-to-left, and then they have to read "regular" music (e.g. The suggestion to mirror the music is like suggesting to read and write English text from right-to-left. I live in Israel and neither myself nor fellow musicians, nor my many students have an issue with the music written from left to right. "This presents a challenge for people who mainly use a right-to-left language, such as Arabic or Hebrew, who have to learn to read music in the opposite direction to the one they are used to from reading text." Perhaps the symbols shouldn't be flipped either, or only certain symbols? It would be good to know what the existing practise is in this regard.
dynamics, time signatures, etc.) so the solution isn't quite as simple as mirroring the music and not mirroring the text. I would would be curious to know whether right-to-left readers think such a feature would be useful? Mock-upĪnd here is the same score with the music mirrored but text left in it's natural direction:Īs you can see, there are problems with musical symbols that are also numbers or letters (e.g. This raises the question whether it would be valuable for MuseScore to have an option to flip music for readers of right-to-left languages, so that they can read notes and lyrics in the direction they are used to? Some editions in right-to-left languages are produced this way for this very reason. To create the second image, I simply flipped the first image so that notes and text were both backwards, and then I individually flipped each lyric syllable back to the "correct" direction. This means the music and the words are written left-to-right, but the letters within each syllable are written right-to-left.įor the safe of any left-to-right readers having trouble understanding the problem, here's how we normally write lyrics under notes:Īnd here's how we would have to do it if music was read from right-to-left instead of left-to-right: Notes progress from left to right across the page, so the words and syllables must be written in reverse order.
lyrics) written in a right-to-left language. The problem is made worse when the music contains writing (e.g. This presents a challenge for people who mainly use a right-to-left language, such as Arabic or Hebrew, who have to learn to read music in the opposite direction to the one they are used to from reading text. Like most written languages, sheet music is read from left-to-right.
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