Seeking best practices for scoring multiple examples (of harmony or rhythm)

• Sep 16, 2016 - 18:00

Tim Patton, here, from Houston TX. I'm a new member to MuseScore and a self-taught ear-trained drummer looking for wisdom. I want to enter example of musical phrases from literature: e.g. an example from one of any number of music theory texts, e.g. Schoenberg, Fux, etc.

I find the audio playback feature especially helpful because I can't look at music notation and hear it in my head as many trained musicians can. I also would like to avoid having 200 tiny files each containing a measure or a few measures. In my preconceived and ignorant ideal view, I would like to create one score per textbook and separate each example with identifying text, such as "fig 1. p. 27," or some such. But that might be a bad idea for any number of reasons I cannot yet foresee.

If you've used MuseScore in a similar fashion, or if you are just experienced enough with the various palettes and overall eccentricities of the software that you could suggest some ideas, then please kindly share with me what has worked for you. Also, please don't hesitate to sound patronizing; I'm still learning the features and don't mind being spoken down to like I was some kind of idiot novice. I am some kind of idiot novice, after all.

Thank you!


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In reply to by Tim.Patton

If you have a lot of text and no trivial information you want to put in between scores like tables or justified/wrapped text, it's probably better to have one small file per "figures" and then join them. Especially if you want to publish the result on the web.
I started something with Schoenberg for example (there is no much text for the moment....) http://lasconic.github.io/Schoenberg_ToH/book.html

If you have not a lot of text, and not a lot of figures, then the approach highlighted in the previous comments is the way to go!

In reply to by [DELETED] 5

This Schoenberg example is actually one of the things I wanted to create! Not the html, because I hadn't even conceived of that - brilliant idea! I mean, the same text, Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony, is one I needed to notate specifically so that I could hear it in midi. I can't begin to express my gratitude for your sharing this link with me. I'm trying, late in life, to grasp the mechanics of music composition, and only this week did I even learn of this work by Schoenberg, and the subsequent one, Structural Functions of Harmony, when I came across the latter at a book store. I will copy the link to a Music Theory folder so I can access it often as I read the book. Is there any hope that a web page like this already exists also for Structural Functions of Harmony?

Also, might I trouble you for a brief description of how you produced the html? Did you handcode the entire page or did you create it via some kind of automation?

Thank you again for sharing this with me! Words fail to fully express my joy in your sharing this work!

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