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As a studying method I am making a reduction of Wagner's Parsifal ouverture. In bar 3, the rhythm does not fit. The quarter, dotted eight, sixteenth and half note take up a sixteenth beat more space than there is.
I checked several sources, all have the dotted eight, so that is no mistake presumably. What does this mean musically? And how should I notate it in Dorico, a program that forces correct rhythm?
I think this is one of those cases where staring at something too long makes the notes swim around on the page. Happens to everyone sometimes! :D
A dotted eighth = 3/16, so that plus a sixteenth is a quarter.
To answer the last part of the question (though it's not actually needed here): the best way to input a bar with 'too many notes' in Dorico is to use hidden tuplets. That probably works for most other apps too.
