Supporting function-notation
To make MuseScore really, really useful to teaching Choral harmonizing in gymnasium in Denmark (where I teach) support of function-harmonic notation (don't know the correct English term) would be a killer feature rendering all other notation software obsolete.
The ability to choose stuff like
D (for dominant)
D/ (slashed over the D)
64D (where 64 is above each other in small chars before the D)
Sp (for subdominant-parallel, where the p is small and below the S)
etc.
would be amazing. I could provide a complete list of these functions, but you probably know them already.
As you don't have a "bounty"-feature here I can promise a 100€ donation for this feature. Actually a page with wishes and prices would not be a bat idea, I'm sure I could get my school (or myself) to increase donations considerably for specifik features.
Best regards
Morten, Denmark
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See http://www.musikipedia.dk/funktioner-i-funktionsanalyse/beskrivelser
After chatting about it in #musescore, it's clear that this feature request is basically all about making a custom palette with your own (svg) symbols.
Similar requests are:
#8605: For accordion: Insert a register toolbar
Creating a custom Tablature
It's true it cannot (currently) be expeceted to support any kind of strange notational needs and a simple svg-symbol integration would do quite much of the trick :)
Two things would be nice, though:
1. A way a packaging those in a userfriendly was for distribution
2. A nice way of specifying the positioning of them. Like "always beneath chords and horizontally adjusted" or something...
But especially 2. is a "nice to have"... 1. would be very practical for educational purposes
Regards
Morten
I don't know of a special name in English other than "Roman numeral notation for chords". I have also heard it called "functional harmonic analysis" by the developers of Canorus . It is closely related to the Baroque-era "figured bass" notation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_%28music%29#Notation
I agree that support for functional analysis, as well as figured bass and roman numeric analysis (step-analysis), would make musescore a very useful tool for teaching. These three types of analysis are common in different type of music and would be a really great addition to an already great program.
Even on a rudimentary level, being able to detect parallel 5th and octaves would be very useful for students doing their 4 part harmony homework. Particularly for those students just starting out.
mhindson offers us the ability to use his font in MuseScore : http://musescore.org/en/node/12243#comment-41539
@mhindson If I get your request right. It might be another request. A plugin to detect some harmonies already exist : http://musescore.org/en/project/findharmony
Could you point to this kind of exercices online? Then we can do a proper feature request and possibly a plugin.
That was my most common mistake when I was taking theory. It would have been awesome to have this program then, especially if it would catch my mistakes before I submitted my compositions!
For a description and examples of parallel octaves and fifths see: http://www.choraleguide.com/vl-parallels.php
http://musescore.org/en/node/9188#comment-88897