Paste Without Lyrics
Many times when I am composing, I like to put the first verse of the lyrics in right after the melody. Also, with hymn-writing (which is most of what I do with musescore), the melody repeats either exactly or almost exactly, so it saves a lot of time to copy and paste in places. The problem is, when you copy and paste, it also pastes the lyrics, overwriting what lyrics there already were. I understand why it does this, and am not asking that it be removed, because you often want to overwrite the lyrics. But it would also be nice to have a "Paste Without lyrics" command, possibly in the context menu. I have also tried subtracting the lyrics from the selection before copying, and this does not work. When I hit ctrl+v to paste, nothing happens. This also seems odd to me, because subtracting the notes from the selection and copy/pasting the lyrics does work.
If anyone knows of another way to paste without lyrics, I would appreciate the help.
Thank you
Comments
Use the Selection filter (F6) and exclude Lyrics, before you copy, on paste it is too late
In reply to Use the Selection filter (F6… by Jojo-Schmitz
This still overwrites the lyrics, but instead of pasting the old lyrics over the new ones, it just overwrites them with what was copied - which is nothing. In effect, it just pastes the notes and gets rid of the lyrics. What I want is for it to just keep the old lyrics and just paste the new notes.
In reply to This still overwrites the… by pianocomposer321
Well, in general, there is no guarantee that what you are pasting would be the same number of notes much less the same rhythms, so keeping the lyrics could be awkward. Better, though, to copy the lyrics from the original part to the new one, we do have special handling for that. So, select the original region, then right-click one lyrics, Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection, Ctrl+C to copy, then click the destination and Ctrl+V to paste. It remains up to you to make sure the rhythms are compatible.
Try using Filter (F6).
In addition see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/copy-and-paste#selection-filter
In reply to In addition see: https:/… by kuwitt
Are these changes kept persistent after exiting musescore?
In reply to Are these changes kept… by pianocomposer321
No
In reply to In addition see: https:/… by kuwitt
btw, the picture in the handbook is outdated (from musescore 2).
In reply to btw, the picture in the… by pianocomposer321
Feel free to update it
In reply to Feel fee to update it by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't know how...
:-)