Really Basic! on Opera Hudson Anasazi: "When Earth Was Younger" score will not edit.

• Oct 13, 2013 - 16:07

"When earth Was Younger " Will not edit. Pg 11 on musescore.com has errors, slurs extending over into empty measures, accent marks missing. So I tried to edit on ms.org. After pressing edit, only score description displays. The actual score does not. In upper left hand corner Score title appears, so I click on it and computer wants to know "Run or Save this doc." which is odd! However, when I click Run, the full score displays OK. THen I do the editing on pg 11 (or anywhere) and it seems to be working. Even asks "save changes you made to this score, etc." and I save it. (or save under file.) However, the editing does not work, it is not there when you view the score again. I've tried this over and over. It is weird. I asked Thomas Bonte about it, he said I was on my own, had to go on Forum. I am about to go Pro, but now I don't know if I would want to pay up. Any help out there? I would appreciate it. Thanks

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• Oct 13, 2013 - 16:28

There is (as far as I know) no engine yet for editing MuseScore scores online.

I have noticed myself that sometimes the musescore.com layout engine changes things from the way you originally laid it out.

It is usually simply a matter of checking the score again in MuseScore and reuploading it.

The "Edit" button you are referring to is simply for altering score metadata, although there is the opportunity to upload an updated copy of the score.

After looking at your score on musescore.com, I suspect it has become corrupted in some way - this happens sometimes (copying and pasting multivoice tuplets is a known cause), and the layout problems you describe are a symptom of that corruption.

I would go back to your original and check that all is as it should be before reuploading it to musescore.com using the dialogue that comes up on the Edit page.

If you should find it has been corrupted, don't hesitate to come back here, where we can help you find the cause of the corruption and help you fix it.

HTH
Michael

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• Oct 14, 2013 - 17:18

OH. So there is no way of keeping the score on ms.com. I thought you could EDIT the score on ms.org and update it to change the ms.com one to be correct. So i would have to REPLACE the bugged one with the correct one from.org. ? I wanted to keep my view count, but will have to start all over on no. of views I guess. I am better on composition than I am music technology!

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• Oct 14, 2013 - 22:04

Thanks for your reply michael. I did not want to replace the ms.com score, but guess I may. I checked the ms.org score on my piece "When Earth etc."and the slurs extend into the next page. So you are right, I think ms.com may change the layout from the original .org score! This is so confusing to me. I am not a technocrat. But you can edit the ms.org score and expect the changes to "take" on the original .org score I would think, even though they don't on ms.com?!!? When I click edit on ms.org, it takes me to a new page and to the little upper left hand title, I click on it, then I have to "run: the score, etc. Seems odd. I dont remember doing that before when i originally did dthis score on .org (It's been some months ago) MAINLY I NEED TO KNOW IF I CAN EVEN EDIT THE ORIGINAL.ORG SCORE/ i know you're supposed to be able to do that! Something seems really weird to me about all this.

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• Oct 13, 2013 - 16:28

You are talking abou this page right? http://musescore.com/user/68195/scores/89117

You can download the score by clicking the Download button on the right side, and click on MuseScore. It should open the score in MuseScore and you will be able to edit it. Once done, File --> Save As and give it a new name. Don't forget to take note of where you saved the score.

Once you edited you score, you can go again to http://musescore.com/user/68195/scores/89117 and click on "Edit this score", then click "Replace", browse to the folder when you saved your score on your computer and press OK. Then press Save at the bottom of the page.

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• Oct 13, 2013 - 17:09

You're talking about http://musescore.com/user/68195/scores/89117, I guess?

Edit: lasconic was faster...

The tempo text in measure 1 , 36 and 60 are staff text rather than a real tempo text -> no proper playback
Slurs have been extended with right, rather than shift right.
Similar for hairpins.
This is the reason for them to span page boundaries
The repeat bar in measure 20 has a repeat count of 1 -> no repeat

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• Oct 14, 2013 - 15:11

Thanks everyone for your kind responses to my dilemma. I'm sure the score on pg. 11 must have gotten corrupted, as I am sure I wouldn't have put such a laughable error as slurs extending into empty measures. i will work at fixing/editing using your suggestions. Also the repeat barI will try to fix, as the piece is out of balance without the first section being repeated--makes the timing psychologically terminated too soon at the end. Del

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• Oct 14, 2013 - 15:21

I don't think there is any score corruption. Those slurs just have been extended incorrectly and then a later re-layout (possibly due to some insertion earlier in the score) move the next measure to the next page, with this nasty effect.

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