Copying Old Hymns
I have an old, early 1900s hymn that has some "original" hymns written by the pastor and his organist. These are hymns that likely have never been published elsewhere, so I don't think I would be able to find them in musicXML or another digital format.
I tried several apps to try to "read" the original page, but none are able to read it accurately - one support rep told me they were too old to be readable.
What I decided to do was to try and recreate the hymns using Musescore, but I know nothing about music and just have the hymn pages and the interface to go by.
I've attached the hymn I'm working on. From the very first note, it flips upside-down when I try to place it below the first bar. I'm using the "Eighth Note", but maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing. Right below that note is a "Quarter Note", which places fine, but a "Rest" is added after it, which I can't remove.
I've included the hymn that I'm working with as an example of what I'm trying to duplicate. I very much appreciate any advice or direction anyone in the forum can give me.
Thank you,
Ernie
| Attachment | Size |
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| Our Hymns - Our Church Home greyscale.pdf | 295.47 KB |
Comments
Welcome to MuseScore.
My advice would be to not try to enter this entire hymn until you know more about how to use the program. I would suggest entering just the top notes for now, as practice. Yes, that first note will enter stem down by default. Don't worry about it for now. I would also suggest not entering the first two notes as they are a pickup into the first complete measure. In notation software every beat has to have either a note or a rest. For the most part you can't delete a rest. You need to replace it with a note.
Good luck.
Here's the notes, lyrics and proof reading left as an exercise ;-)
https://musescore.com/user/23930/scores/24910897
As per https://hymnary.org/text/we_come_to_our_church_home_tonight it is in the Public Domain BTW.