muse score versions of our choral repertoire?
My choir will be presenting a concert soon with items chosen from Novello's book The Greatest Choral Classics. As might be expcted all these items are scored by Novello; I also expect that Novello's scores are available in digital form -> so is there a way in which all these items can be made available in Muse Score? This is really a matter of interaction between Muse Score and Novello so I am writing this letter to both parties. I could do this piecemeal by searching on Muse Score for each items separately and checking whether a Novello edtion has been entered. However I am looking for a more comprehensive approach. To summarize we need a program that accepts as input a Novello digital score and generates a muse score version of that piece.
Any ideas, anyone, Keith
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I have found a version of one piece. There must be a way in which I can attach controls to play the tenor part in the foregournd and the other parts in the background, in spite of the composer's dynamic markings. One way is to suppress all the composer's marking, apply ppp to the other parts and mf to the tenor part. is there a smarter way? I'd prefer to create a scale of the dynamic markings from ppp to fff and just move the dynamic markings down the scale for the other parts and up the scale for the tenor part. Of course this needs a function in muse score to do just this. nd there is a problem if the tenor is already pp and the sop is fff. In this case no amount of jiggery-pokery can enhance the tenor part while pushing the soprano part into the background.
In reply to I have found a version of… by Keith Paton
If I'm understanding correctly, just open View / Mixer and set the volume sliders however you like.
In reply to If I'm understanding… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you. When I've entered Soprno in the box and moved the slider to the left I expect to find an OK or SAVE button to press to confirm that I want Muse score to accept that setting. I don't find it. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Keoth
In reply to Thank you. When I've entered… by Keith Paton
Now I move the sliders down for the three voices and hit the x at top right to close. That seems to do the trick. Am I right?
thanks,
Keith
In reply to Now I move the sliders down… by Keith Paton
But .. it seems that when I leave muse score,
1 muse score does not ask me if I want to store these changes
2 the muse score version is still the same as the original.
I wouod like to issue four versions with names fred-S; fred -A, fred -T, and fred -B all based on score fred but with the vertical sliders set to emphasize S A T B respectively
Is this possible
In reply to But .. it seems that when I… by Keith Paton
True, there is a bug where mxier changes don't prompt you to save the score. But yes, if you want to save those mixer settings, do save it. So, just do File / Save As to make a new copy of the score with each setting.
Or, instead of actually saving copies of the score - which will require the recipient of these files to also have MuseScore - you could consider just using File / Export to generate MP3's for them.
In reply to Thank you. When I've entered… by Keith Paton
The mixer is "live" - all settings take effect in real time. So there is nothing to save. Simply close the mixer when done. For more info, see the Handbook section on the mixer and on playback in general.
In reply to The mixer is "live" - all… by Marc Sabatella
That seems to suggest that the alto viewer must set the sliders herself?
In reply to That seems to suggest that… by Keith Paton
I did View/Mixer and entered Soprano; I did playback with > but all 4 parts sounded. What am I doing wrong
In reply to I did View/Mixer and entered… by Keith Paton
Are you saying you did something in the Mixer that you expected would cause the soprano only to sound? What specifically did you do - solo the soprano, mute the others, move the other soldiers down, or what?
Soloing isn't honored when your export to an audio file.
Impossible to say more without seeing and hearing the score - attach it here and describe what you expect to hear and what you hear instead, then we can understand and assist better.
In reply to Impossible to say without… by Marc Sabatella
I have uploaded the score in my first post/ I want to create something for the alto to listen to. Ideally that would be 1) an mp3 with the alto part enhanced at the expense of the others. Then the alto can listen and read along in her own score.
2) Alternatively if she has muse score I can send her a file called fred-A.mscz with the alto part enhanced at the expense of the others
In reply to I have uploaded the score in… by Keith Paton
OK, but that was before you made whatever changes you made in the mixer. If you're saying the changes you made int he mixer didn't work, we'd need precise steps to reproduce the problem. So, we start by loading the score,e then opening the mixer. Now what - what are you doing, what do you expect to happen, and what happens instead?
If the goal is to hear the alto louder, should be as simple as moving the slider for the alto up a little and/or moving the others down a little. If you aren't hearing a difference, maybe you aren't moving them enough.
In reply to I have uploaded the score in… by Keith Paton
> Ideally that would be 1) an mp3 with the alto part enhanced at the expense of the others. Then the alto can listen and read along in her own score.
Set the mixer channels as you like (e.g. alto loud, others more quiet), export an mp3 file and call it e.g. alto.mp3. Set a new mix, export soprano, call it e.g. soprano.mp3 and so on. You don't need to save the file in between, unless you want to save these mixer settings each time. In this case use 'Save as' with each its own file name.
> 2) Alternatively if she has muse score I can send her a file called fred-A.mscz with the alto part enhanced at the expense of the others
If she has musescore simply send the original file. You only need to explain her how to use the mixer: press F10 and move the channel sliders up or down. Optional she may press 'file save' (Ctrl-s) to use these settings again later.
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