Tonic Solfa

• Apr 5, 2016 - 12:14

Has anyone done any work on tonic solfa (doh, ray, me, fah etc) being produced by MuseScore?

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• Apr 5, 2016 - 12:58

There are many things called tonic solfa... from simple ascii text to hand symbols below the standard notation. What do you want to do *exactly*?

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• Apr 5, 2016 - 14:01

I'm re-working "old" Male voice songs published in the 1940s onwards and quite a few of our singers still use the "Tonic Solfa".

I've attached a page of my source document.
Producing the staves plus lyrics is no problem in MuseScore but it would be useful to be able to produce the tonic as well, either as shown or as a totally separate document, which is what I would prefer.
This can certainly be done using Sibelius, but I don't want to go that way.

Hope that answers your question.

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• Jun 16, 2024 - 06:10

Enter your song into MuseScore normally. Once complete, right-click on any note. From the context menu, click Select / Similar. This should select all notes, but nothing else. Now, open the Properties tab at upper left. Go to Note / Head / Show more.

(I've found that occasionally the Show more screen will open but the slider will not move far enough or be available at all, in order to pull it onto the visible part of the screen. Close it, adjust the screen up/down with the slider bar and then try the Show more again.)

Under Show more, look at the Notehead scheme. You may want "Solfége movable do" or "Solfége fixed do". Select the appropriate one for your needs. Now the notes will have the solfége syllables printed on them.

They tend to be very small though. To make them more easily readable, go to Format / Page settings and set the Staff space (sp) under Scaling to be a larger value. Adjust until the solfége syllables are large enough for your purposes.

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• Dec 27, 2019 - 10:31
  1. Add the voice instruments (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/create-new-score#instruments-and-vo…)
  2. Use Copy & Paste (top staff to Soprano, bottom to Tenor)
  3. Use Implode to fix the first measure on both staves, so everything is now in voice 1. (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tools#implode-single-staff)
  4. Select two voice staves and use Explode (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tools#explode)
  5. Replace all double slurs with ties and/or a single slur where appropriate
  6. Remove those text frames that are littering the score (why?)
  7. Add line breaks as desired (for example using https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/layout-and-formatting#system-breaks)

End up with the score as attached.

  1. Use Jojo's link to turn it into solfa
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• Jun 16, 2024 - 09:36

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