diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e7de07e4..ea44ba61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ As of v3.0.0 this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Fixed a bug that could cause problems with headers/footers by generalizing the fix for fancyhdr (see [#1610](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/pull/1610) to work with any headers/footers. In particular, it fixes a similar problem with the `memoir` class. See [#1753](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/pull/1753).
 - Fixed some typos that would cause a handful of spaces to be scaled incorrectly. See [PR #1746](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/pull/1746).
 - Fixed a few bugs related to horizontal spacing around bars and clef changes. See issues [#1191](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/issues/1191), case 3 of [#1724](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/issues/1724), [PR #1743](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/pull/1743), and [#1745](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/issues/1745).
+- Fixed a bug in horizontal spacing when the first syllable consists of only a bar. See [PR #1741](https://github.com/gregorio-project/gregorio/pull/1741).
 
 ## [Unreleased][CTAN]
 *Note:* 6.2.0 was not released to CTAN and is not compatible with 6.1.0 which is on CTAN.  Please make all changes against develop until this is resolved.
diff --git a/tex/gregoriotex-syllable.tex b/tex/gregoriotex-syllable.tex
index 0a47a784..f6589f77 100644
--- a/tex/gregoriotex-syllable.tex
+++ b/tex/gregoriotex-syllable.tex
@@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@
   \gre@debugmsg{general}{New bar syllable}%
   \gre@debugmsg{general}{}%
   \global\advance\gre@attr@syllable@id by 1\relax %
+  \gre@beginningofscorefalse
   \gre@possibleluahyphenafterthissyllablefalse %
   \gre@showhyphenafterthissyllablefalse %
   % the algorithm of this function is *extremely* complex, and has been much painful to write... good luck to understand.