Transpose sheet music from key of A minor to Ab major
I'm just starting to learn MuseScore, I started transposing a piece of music in the past and only was allowed one sheet of score and halfway on the second sheet I was blocked from continuing.
I now want to start again with another piece, Lazy Afternoon, the sheet music I have is written in the key of C Major/A minor. I want to transpose it to Ab Major. First, is there a way to import the sheet music I have and then transpose it? Or do I have to write it myself? And how do I adjust measures on a sheet? I chose 50 by mistake, NOT correct, how do I change it?
Thank you, Claudia RP
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You must read the BOOK , you find all you want .
to import your "sheet music" , what do you call sheet music, if it is a PDF, there is a tool, FILE-----IMPORT, but ........don't dream, result is ......variable. If your "sheet music" is a file readable by Musescore , in "XML" no problem, you load it and it'is in Musescore.
To transpose ,musescore has very good tools (see the BOOK) you can do what you want.
In reply to You must read the BOOK , you… by Raymond Wicquart
When Raymond writes "the BOOK" he means the handbook. You find the link at the top of this page, under "Support". Very good resource. You definitely should read it.
Use MuseScore and enter the notes yourself. It will be slow at first but you will learn quickly and the result will be that you have a more accurate score than trying to import from an image and you will also learn transposition which is a really useful skill to have.
What do you mean by only being allowed one page? If you mean that you ran out of bars then you can add more with Add > Bars > Append Bars. If you want to remove blacnk bars at the end of a piece then use Tolls > Remove Empty Trailing Bars.
In reply to Use MuseScore and enter the… by underquark
Hi Claudia,
In which format is the score you desire to enter and transpose: a sheet of paper? A PDF document? A document under another music program format (Sibelius, Finale, ...?)
Anyway if it isn't a format that MuseScore can import directly it is indeed generally more straightforward to encode it from scratch instead of trying to recognize PDF music, that process ia far from perfect yet.
Then for the transpose part, MuseScore does that very well so no need to learn how to do it yourself at all.
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In reply to And what on earth do you… by [DELETED] 1831606
@BSG Don't shout. You see well in the original post that the musical voc is approximative and that as the original key is designated by Am/CM all that means is no alteration, that's all. He/she is asking for help
(And I don't know the English usage but in French transpose can perfectly be used to describe changing from minor to major (and yes that is not the same thing as "pure" transpose, I know that))
To be clear, though: MuseScore in no way whatsoever imposes any limits on how many scores you can create of how long they can be. You can create as many scores as you want, and make them as long as you want. I'm guessing maybe you didn't find the "Add" menu where you can add all the measures you want. You can also delete measures by selecting them and pressing Ctrl+Delete or using the various commands in the Tools menu.
Once you have your music in MuseScore - whether by attempting to import the PDF and then correcting the many errors that will doubtless result, or entering the notes yourself (which is usually easier) - to transpose the score, use Tools / Transpose.