Editing a score -- how to edit without replacing
Let me apologise in advance if this has been covered elsewhere. I have some Handel scores that I have scanned and converted to musicXML. This has worked reasonably well, but some of the dots on the dotted notes have been missed. I am now going through and correcting the scores. Usually this means converting a crotchet followed by a quaver to a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver. However, when I convert the crotchet to a dotted crotchet it removes the adjacent quaver. I can understand the logic that MuseScore is following, but it is immensely frustrating. Surely there must be an easy way...
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There is no easy way.
In reply to There is no easy way. by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you! Pleased it is not just me.
Use Note Input insert mode (but this overfills the measure (little grey +), so you have to delete something. Having everything move over is not possible.
In reply to Use Note Input insert mode … by elsewhere
Many thanks! At least I now know that I haven't overlooked anything obvious. Yes, I have been doing as you suggest. It seems a shame that you cannot freely edit a measure and then use some form of submit to see if it is under- or over-filled. I might see if there is some other programme that will let me edit the musicXML file before bringing it in to MuseScore.
In reply to Many thanks! At least I now… by Malcolm Wood
The difficulty is that although a pdf import may look like it has imported reasonably well, in a lot of cases there are many subtle or not so subtle errors that are difficult to find and fix. It is often simpler to enter everything by hand from scratch than trying to find and fix the mess that is created in the pdf -> xml process, particularly when dealing with older styled and more complex scores. Even finding errors can be difficult; can you ever be sure you found them all?
In reply to Many thanks! At least I now… by Malcolm Wood
The Duration Editor plugin can also come in handy, esp. to convert triplets to straight notes & vice versa, but also over/underfills measures
In reply to The Duration Editor plugin… by elsewhere
Will try this. :-)
In reply to Many thanks! At least I now… by Malcolm Wood
FYI: Just tried to see if Denimo (which looked like a possible solution) or Frescobaldi would do what I want. Answer seems to be no -- or at least not yet. Ah well. Such is life. Still in awe of the development community behind software like MuseScore.