How do I create a cover page?

• Jan 11, 2016 - 03:45

I need to be able to create a cover page with the title and then the music starting on the next page. How do I do that?

Comments

• Jan 11, 2016 - 23:35

Now that I think about it, what I was asking is misunderstood. Okay, I need the front part to be the cover, meaning it states the title, the composer, lyricist and arranger, and then the next page it has what shows up as the title in musescore normally.

Reply

• Jan 12, 2016 - 00:02

Either I'm also misunderstanding your request, or you've not followed the linked topic. Using the steps mentioned there, I've very quickly created the attached score.

If this is not what you're after, please try to show what you're trying to achieve. Perhaps make a picture with the intended result?

EDIT: Or what Zach linked above, different approach, but should give you similar results...

Attachment Size
Front Page.mscz 2.82 KB

Reply

• Apr 29, 2016 - 21:12

Or export to a scalable graphics format like PNG or SVG. Make your cover page in a word processor, set the margins of remaining pages to zero, and then insert the graphics as pictures. If you ignore the gloom and doom warnings about margins, you'll get the same margins as if you had printed with MuseScore.

Reply

• Apr 30, 2016 - 19:43

Horizontally it's centered because it has the Title textstyle, which is centered by default.

Vertically, by eyeballing the vertical offset of it:
1. Single click the title so that it's highlighted but no cursor is present
2. Use the Inspector to apply a vertical offset, works best if you've zoomed out enough so you can see the whole page.

Reply

• Apr 29, 2016 - 22:45

I just saw this; sorry I'm a few months late with advice.

My company does this all the time for our published editions. Each score has a 90# cover with a main title and a back-ad, and the first page of the score itself is a half-title followed by the commentary and critical report and notes before the actual music begins.

The best solution for this kind of assembly is to create your cover page and other text material in a word-processor or typography program, not in MuseScore, and export it to PDF. Then export your MuseScore file to PDF as well, and assemble the two PDFs into a single PDF document that you can send to your printer. The text page obviously has no impact on playback, so it doesn't need to be in mscz format.

If you insist on creating type- and image-only pages in MuseScore, you can (by using text frames combined with .png image inserts), but you'll work a lot harder at it than if you do it in a program specifically designed for that purpose.

MS Word is far from perfect, but it's adequate to do much of what you probably need to do.

Reply

• Apr 30, 2016 - 14:56

@Jojo--No problem. 90# translates as '90-pound'; it has nothing to do with what the youngsters call a 'hash-tag' today. ;o)

In North America, at least, printing papers are still denominated and sold by type and basis weight, a historical system which is about as archaic as the system for notating music for the so-called 'transposing instruments'. There is a movement in the world paper industry to reduce the confusion by using a GSM number--grams per square metre--but since the 'Murricans are allergic to the metric system, it hasn't gained a lot of supporters on this side of the pond.

A 90# paper weighs 90 pounds per ream (500 sheets) of its basis size, and the basis size for a cover stock (a thick, rather stiff paper generally used for the covers of paperback books or magazines) is 20"x26". For comparison, a 'bond' paper--what most people buy to run through their photocopiers or desktop printers--has a basis size of 17x22, so a bond paper of equivalent weight to a 90# cover would be denominated as a 65# bond (if you could find any). To make things worse, the actual manufactured size of today's papers does not always match those traditional basis sizes. And then there are index, tag, offset, book and text papers, even 'web' papers--papers manufactured in rolls, like newsprint, which are x-inches wide by xxxx-feet long.

http://www.paper-paper.com/weight.html

Yeah, I know; it all makes one's head spin...but try explaining to a printer why the music for a high-school band arrangement might have different parts in the various keys of Bb, Eb, Ab, F, D, and C. ;o)

Reply

Do you still have an unanswered question? Please log in first to post your question.