Make a score only as few pages as possible
Hello. We have a choir score but it fills 9 pages. I would like it on fewer pages, but how. I think the distance between the notes could be reduced, and may be the notes could be a little smaller.
I sing the tenor part, and would like to have my score alone, but when I do that the text comes into the notes.
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You can open Format->Page settings and reduce the scaling but I suspect that might the time you get fewer pager will be too small. BTW, when I opened the score it had 7 pages I'm not sure why, mine showed it on A4 paper.
One common thing I've seen in scores like this is to only put the lyrics in the first 2 or 3 verses then list additional lyrics at the end of the song. You can copy all of the lyrics to the keyboard at once (menu Tools->Copy lyrics to clipboard), put it into an editor that does not word wrap, format the verses you want at the end in that then paste them into a text frame at the end of the song. You can do this along with reducing the scaling less so everything is more readable and I think you can get a page layout you like.
When I used File->Parts and created all parts, the tenor part looked fine with nothing overlapping. It was also on 2 pages.
Create parts, reduce the Space setting slightly, and have one page per voice
Add the missing lyrics to Alto and Bass
In reply to Create parts, reduce the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for your great answer. Especielly that I can take all the text as you describebit and put it adter the score. I have one more question. I feel that there is too big distances between the notes. That makes the whole score so big also
In reply to Thank you for your great… by valsbol
You can reduce the score to just 6 pages by selecting all Ctrl+A and then using the {, possible several times. You can't do much more without make the score to small to be readable
See attached
In reply to You can reduce the score to… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you
In reply to Thank you for your great… by valsbol
The notes are so far apart because there are so few measures on a staff. When you reduce the scaling, this will improve and is probably the best method to improve this score. You can select the entire score (press ctrl+a) press { up to about 10 times to see if this pushes the notes closer together so more measures will be on a staff. This is called reducing the stretch and there are menu options for this also.
In reply to The notes are so far apart… by mike320
hank youu8. but how do I pres sign kribles parentesis, I kan see it on the 7 key and the 0 key, but I do not know how it works
In reply to hank youu8. but how do I… by valsbol
I press CTRL + A to select all, but the kribled parentesis does not work. I have tried Alt 7 or Alt Ctrol 7, an alternativ ALT +7
In reply to I press CTRL + A to select… by valsbol
I have also tried to use format reduce or strerch
In reply to hank youu8. but how do I… by valsbol
You can use the corresponding menu too, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#increase-decrea…
In reply to You can use the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hello
This seems to be a repeated question. See the score here. When I use the shortcut { then it gets too small and I need more spacing between the notes. If I go back with } then the last line is streched to the end.
In reply to Hello This seems to be a… by valsbol
How about this then?