Asennus

MuseScore toimii moninaisilla eri käyttöjärjestelmillä kuten Windowsilla, macOS:llä sekä monilla Linux-jakelupaketeilla ja useilla BSD-jälkeläisillä.

    arch

    uname -m

    cd ~/Downloads
    chmod u+x MuseScore*.AppImage

    cd ~/Desktop
    ./MuseScore*.AppImage [option...]

    ~/desktop/MuseScore*.AppImage [option...]

    ./MuseScore*.AppImage --help   # displays a complete list of command line options
    ./MuseScore*.AppImage man      # displays the manual page (explains what the options do)

Kieliasetukset ja käännösten päivitykset

MuseScore asennetaan ja toimii "järjestelmän" kielellä (joka on käytössä suurimmalla osalla ohjelmista, ja tavallisesti riippuen maastasi ja tietokoneesi kieliasetuksista tai käyttäjätilistä).

Vaihda kieltä

1. Valitse päävalikosta Muokkaa→Asetukset... (Mac: MuseScore→Asetukset...);

2. Välilehdestä Yleinen, valitse haluttu kieli pudotusvalikosta kohdasta Kieli:

   

3. Päivttääksesi käännöksiä, napauta Päivitä kielten käännökset. Napauta sitten Päivitä-painikkeita kielistä, joita haluat päivittää (katso vaihtoehtoinen menetelmä alhaalta).

Sinun täytyy sulkea ja avata uudelleen MuseScore, jotta muutokset ja päivitykset astuvat voimaan.

Päivitä kielten käännökset

Voit päivittää käännökset ylläolevan esimerkin mukaan asetuksien kautta, mutta on olemassa myös toinenkin tapa:

1. Valitse päävalikosta Ohje→Resurssienhallinta;

2. Napauta Päivitä-painiketta kielille, joita haluat päivittää.

   

   Tässäkin tapauksessa sinun täytyy sulkea MuseScore ja avata se uudelleen, jotta muutokset ja päivitykset astuvat voimaan.

Katso myös

• Auta kehittämään käännöksiä

Ulkoiset linkit

• How to change the language in MuseScore

Päivitysten tarkistaminen

Päivitysten tarkistamiseen on kaksi tapaa.

Automatisoitu päivitysten tarkastaminen

1. Valitse päävalikosta Muokkaa→Asetukset... (Mac: MuseScore→Asetukset...);
2. Valitse Päivitys-välilehti:
   
3. Ruksaa laatikko, jonka vieressä lukee "Tarkista uusin MuseScoren versio."

Nyt MuseScore tarkistaa päivitykset jokaisen käynnistyksen yhteydessä ja ilmoittaa sinulle tarvittaessa.

Tarkista päivitykset

1. Valitse päävalikosta Ohje→Tarkista päivitykset:
   
2. Ilmestyy päivityksen tilaa ilmaiseva valintaikkuna: joko "Ei päivityksiä saatavilla" tai "päivitys MuseScorelle on saatavilla", jota seuraa päivityksen asennukseen ohjaava linkki.

Huomioi: Nämä vaihtoehdot ovat saatavissa vain MuseScoren Mac- ja Windows-versioille (poikkeuksena Windows Storen versio), koska vain ne voidaan päivittää suoraan sivustolta MuseScore.org. Linuxin jakelupaketeilla (ja Windows Storella) on eri mekanismeja päivitysten saatavuudelle.

Katso myös

• Preferences: Updates

Muokkaustila

Muokkaustilassa voit suorittaa laajan valikoiman muokkaustoimintoja yksilöllisissä parituurin elementeissä, kuten:

• säätää kaarien, viivojen, tahtiviivojen ym. pituutta ja muotoa.
• lisätä, poistaa ja muotoilla tekstiä tekstikappaleissa.
• säätää useimman partituurielementin asentoa (muttei tekstin).

Mene/poistu muokkaustilasta

Päästääksesi Muokkaustilaan, käytä mitä tahansa seuraavia menetelmiä:

• Tuplaklikkaa elementtiä.
• Klikkaa oikealla hiiren näppäimellä elementtiä, ja valitse valikosta Muokkaa elementtiä.
• Klikkaa elementtiä ja paina Ctrl+E (Mac: Cmd+E).

Poistuaksesi Muokkaustilasta, tee mitä tahansa seuraavista:

• Paina Esc.
• Klikkaa tyhjää aluetta asiakirjan ikkunasta.

Teksti

Tekstin muokkaustilaan, katso Tekstin muokkaaminen.

Viivat

Viivoja—kuten yhdyskaarta, sidekaarta, kiiloja, maaleja jne.—reunustaa neliömäiset säätöpainikkeet eli "kahvat" Muokkaustilassa: valittaessa nämä muuttuvat siniseksi. Esimerkiksi sidekaari näyttää tältä:

Loppupäiden kahvoja käytetään viivan pituuden säätämiseen. Keskimmäisiä kahvoja käytetään viivan pystyasennon säätämiseen. Side- ja yhdyskaarien tapauksessa on myös kolme muuta kahvaa kaarevuuden säätämiseksi (katso kuva yllä).

Jotta voit muuttaa kahvan paikkaa, klikkaa sitä ja käytä pikanäppäintä (kts. alla). Voit vaihtoehtoisesti raahata kahvaa hiirellä.

Jokainen äärikahva on liitetty pistekatkoviivalla ankkuriin viivastossa. Loppu- ja alkupään ankkurit ilmaisevat partituurin alueen rajat viivan valvonnan alaisena. Oletuksena äärikahva on sijoitettu pystysuoraan ankkurinsa ylle.

• Siirtääksesi sekä loppukahvaa että siihen kiinnitettyä ankkuria: Klikkaa kahvaa ja käytä Shift+→ tai Shift+←.
• Siirtääksesi loppukahvaa liikuttamatta sen ankkuria: Klikkaa kahvaa ja käytä joko vasenta/oikeaa nuolinäppäintä tai vastaavanlaista Ctrl (Mac: ⌘) komentoa. Katso pikanäppäimet alla.

Nuotit

Nuottien tasoittaminen

Joskus on tarpeen siirtää nuottia oikealle tai vasemmalle, jotta saadaan vältettyä yhteentörmäys toiseen elementtiin tai ohitettua automaattinen nuotinpäiden jakaminen, kuten:

1. Mene Muokkaustilaan halutussa nuotissa;
2. Paina nuolinäppäintä suuntaan (vasempaan tai oikeaan), johon haluat työntää nuottia (tai käytä Ctrl+← or Ctrl+→ suuremmille säädöille);
3. Paina Esc key. Tämä sallii nuotin varren uudelleenkirjoittamisen.

Voit vaihtoehtoisesti valita nuotinpään ja muuttaa "Vaakasuuntaista poikkeamaa" ("Soinnun" alla) kohdassa Tarkastaja.

Säädä nuotin varren pituutta

1. Mene Muokkaustilaan halutussa nuotissa;
2. Hyödynnä pikanäppäimiä (alla) laajentaaksesi tai lyhentääksesi vartta;
3. Poistu muokkaustilasta.

Huom: liikuttaaksesi uudelleen nuotin vartta, sinun pitää valita se ja säätää "Vaakasuuntaista poikkeamaa" Tarkastajassa.

Pikanäppäimet

In Edit mode the following keyboard commands can be used to change the position of either (1) a score element (e.g. ornament, accidental etc.) or (2) an adjustment handle (e.g. slur, line etc.):

• ←: Move left 0.1 staff space.
• →: Move right 0.1 staff space
• ↑: Move up 0.1 staff space
• ↓: Move down 0.1 staff space
• Ctrl+← (Mac: ⌘+←): Move left one staff space
• Ctrl+→ (Mac: ⌘+→): Move right one staff space
• Ctrl+↑ (Mac: ⌘+↑): Move up one staff space
• Ctrl+↓ (Mac: ⌘+↓): Moves down one staff space
• Alt+←: Move left 0.01 staff space
• Alt+→: Move right 0.01 staff space
• Alt+↑: Move up 0.01 staff space
• Alt+↓: Move down 0.01 staff space

The following commands only apply to adjustment handles:

• Shift+←: Move end handle's anchor left by one note/rest.
• Shift+→: Move end handle's anchor right by one note/rest.
• Tab: Go to next handle.

See also

• Text editing
• Slur
• Bracket
• Line
• Beam
• Hairpin

Paletit ja työtilat

Nuottipohjan vasemmalla puolella on Työtila. Työtilan voit ottaa näkyviin ja piilottaa hyödyntämällä valikkokomentoa Näytä → Paletit tai pikanäppäintä F9 (Mac: fn+F9).

Työtila vuorostaan sisältää lukuisia paletteja. Kukin paletti on kansio, joka sisältää joukon musiikkiin liittyviä symboleita.

Työtilat

MuseScore tarjoaa kaksi esiasetettua työtilaa: Perus (oletusasetus) ja Edistynyt (tila, jossa on enemmän paletteja ja symboleita). Voit vaihdella näiden kahden välillä käyttämällä työtilapaneelin pohjassa sijaitsevaa pudotusvalikkoa. Palettien nimet työtilan sisällä on lueteltu selkeästi paletit-otsikon alla.

Huom: Esiasetettujen työtilojen paletteja tai niiden sisältöä ei voida muokata. Tehdäksesi niin, sinun täytyy ensin luoda mukautettu työtila (alla).

Yksittäinen palettitila

Jos haluat sallia vain yhden paletin avautumisen kerrallaan, klikkaa oikella hiiren painikkeella työtilaa ja merkkaa "Yksittäinen paletti"-laatikko.

Telakointi/telakoinnin irroittaminen

Telakoidaksesi tai irroittaaksesi työtilan, kts. Sivupaneelit.

Mukautettu työtila

Luodaksesi muokattavan työtilan:

1. Valitse olemassaoleva työtila. Hyödynnä tarvittaessa työtilan alapuolella sijaitsevaa pudotusvalikkoa.
2. Klikkaa + -painiketta, syötä nimi uudelle työtilalle ja paina Tallenna. Uusi työtila on lisätty paneeliin.

Vaihtoehtoisesti voit hyödyntää valikon vaihtoehtoa:

1. Valitse Muokkaa → Työtilat ja valitse työtila.
2. Valitse Uusi. Täytä työtilan nimi ja klikkaa OK.

Kunnes mukautettu työtila on luotu, voit vapaasti sijoittaa, poistaa, nimetä ja järjestää uudelleen paletit sen sisällä: uusia symboleita voi lisätä ja olemassa olevia poistaa jne. Lisätietoja, kts. Mukautetut paletit ja Palettivalikko (alla).

Paletit

Avaa/sulje paletti

• Klikkaa kerran paletin nimeä tai sen vierellä olevaa nuolen kärkeä.

Käytä palettisymboleja

Palettisymbolin voi asettaa partituuriin käyttämällä jotakin seuraavista tavoista:

• Valitse yksi tai useampi partituurin elementti ja tuplaklikkaa palettisymbolia.
• Raahaa ja pudota symboli haluamaasi partituurin elementtiin viivastossa.

Esimerkiksi tenuto-merkin (—) lisääminen valittuihin nuotteihin:

1. Valitse haluamasi nuotit.
2. Artikulaatiot & Korukuviot paletista, tuplaklikkaa tenuto-symbolia.

Objekteja voi kopioida, liittää ja monistaa, kunnes ne on lisätty partituuriin—kts. Kopioi ja liitä.

Esiasetetut paletit (Edistynyt työtila)

Toiminnoiltaan monipuolisempi Edistynyt työtila sisältää seuraavat paletit:

• Korusävelet
• Nuottiavaimet
• Sävellajimerkinnät
• Tahtiosoitukset
• Tahtiviivat
• Viivat
• Arpeggiot ja glissandot
• Hengitykset ja tauot
• Hakasulkeet
• Artikulaatiot ja korukuviot
• Etumerkit
• Dynamiikka
• Sormitus
• Nuotinpäät
• Tremolo
• Kertaukset ja hypyt
• Tempo
• Teksti
• Vaihdot ja välistäjät
• Säkkipillin koristekuviot
• Palkin ominaisuudet
• Kehykset ja Tahdit
• Otelautakuvat

Custom palettes

Once you have created a custom workspace (see above), and providing editing is enabled (see Palette menu below), you can customize the palettes within it to your own requirements.

To add an existing score element (such as a line, text, dynamic, fretboard diagram etc.) to a custom palette, press and hold Ctrl+Shift, then drag the symbol onto the palette. Symbols from the Master palette can also be added to a custom palette.

Palette menu

Right-clicking on the name of a palette in a custom workspace brings up a menu with a range of options:

• Palette Properties...: This allows you to make adjustments to the appearance of the open palette:

  

  • Name
  • Cell Size: Width, Height
  • Element Offset: Adjusts the vertical offset of all elements in the palette.
  • Scale: Makes all palette elements appear larger or smaller.
  • Show grid: Tick this box to visually divide the palette into cells, one for each element.
  • Show ‘More Elements…’: Tick this box to create a cell which opens the Master Palette.
• Insert New Palette: Creates a new empty palette.
• Move Palette Up / Move Palette Down: Allows you to reorder the palettes.
• Enable Editing: Tick this option if you want to be able to edit a palette.
• Save Palette: Save as an .mpal file.
• Load Palette: Load an .mpal file.
• Delete Palette

Right-clicking on an element within a palette (if editing of the palette is enabled) brings up a menu with the following options:

• Clear: Removes the element from the palette
• Properties...: Opens the Palette Cell Properties dialogue:
  • Name: The tooltip that appears when you mouse over the element.
  • Content offset (X, Y): Adjust the position of the element in the palette.
  • Content scale: Make the element appear larger or smaller in the palette.
  • Draw staff: Draws the five lines of a musical staff behind the palette element.
• More Elements: Opens the relevant Master Palette section.

Note: Changing values in "Palette Cell Properties" only affects the appearance of elements in the palette. It does not change their sizes or offsets on the score page.

Master palette

Music symbols not part of the palettes in the Advanced workspace can be found in the Master palette by pressing Z or Shift+F9 (Mac: fn+Shift+F9).

Behavior of applied text and lines

If the symbol you are adding to the score from a palette contains a text element (e.g. staff text, dynamic, fingering, volta etc.), then properties such as font-type, font-size, text color, and alignment will adapt according to the following rules:

1. Text properties which have not been altered by the user will adopt the relevant, prevailing text styles.

2. Custom text-properties—i.e. those changed by the user before saving the symbol to a custom palette—remain as customized.

When adding a line, line properties always remain unchanged (i.e. as set by the user before saving to a custom workspace, or as predefined in the Basic/Advanced workspaces).

See also

• Master palette

Tarkastaja ja kappaleen ominaisuudet

Most score elements have properties that can be edited in one of two ways:

• Click on any element, and many of its properties can be viewed and changed from the Inspector panel on the right-hand side of your screen.

• Right-click on an element and select an option with the word Properties in it. This option opens a dialog with advanced properties, only available for certain types of elements.

Inspector

The Inspector is shown by default on the right of your screen. It can be displayed or hidden from the menu: select View and check/uncheck Inspector, or use the shortcut F8 (Mac: fn+F8).

In the Inspector, the properties of any selected object are displayed and can be edited. This applies to virtually every single element in the score window—notes, text, barlines, articulations etc. Multiple elements can also be selected and edited simultaneously, as long as they are of the same type. However, if the selected objects are of different types, then the Inspector restricts you to editing color and visibility only.

The Inspector panel can be un-docked to become a floating panel by clicking the double-chevron symbol or double-clicking the top bar of the panel.

To re-attach the panel double-click on the top bar again. See also: Side panels.

Inspector categories

When you select one or more elements of a specific type, the properties which can be edited are conveniently divided into categories in the Inspector. Categories can be identified by their bold, centered lettering. For example, if you select a barline, you will see the following displayed at the top of the Inspector:

For details about how to adjust the properties of various score elements, refer to the relevant sections in the handbook. However, a few general points will be covered here:

Element

All score elements, except frames, display this category in the Inspector when selected. The various options are as follows:

• Visible: Uncheck this box to make selected elements invisible: alternatively, use the shortcut V (toggle). Invisible elements do not appear in the music when printed out or exported as a PDF or image. If you still want them to remain on display in the document window, make sure that the "Show Invisible" option is selected in View → Show Invisible. Invisible elements will then be colored light gray.

• Color: Click on the rectangle to open a "Color Select" dialog. Adjust the color and opacity of selected elements.

• Horizontal offset / Vertical offset: Allows you to position selected elements exactly (in terms of space units). A positive number moves the elements right or down; a negative number moves the elements left or up. Snap to grid buttons are also provided.

Element Group

This category is displayed only when you have selected a mixture of different types of elements, and allows editing of color and visibility only.

Segment

This category is used to increase or decrease the space before/after an element in a music staff. Adjusting leading/trailing space here also affects any associated lyric syllables.

Chord

This category is displayed only if notes are selected. Any change to a notehead property under Chord affects the whole chord (i.e. all the notes in one voice) at that location—and not just the selected note. If you want to make changes to the position of just one note in a chord, then use the Element category (above).

Note

This category allows you to make changes to selected notes (but for note position—see Element). It contains the following properties:

• Small: Make notehead smaller (you can specify the relative size of all small notes from the menu: Style → General… → Sizes…).
• Head group: See Notehead groups.
• Head type: See Notehead types.
• Mirror head: Position notehead to the left or right of the stem (default is "Auto").
• Tuning: Adjust tuning of note to the nearest cent.
• Play: Unticking this box silences the note.
• Velocity type: Sets the MIDI velocity of notes directly. Chose one of two options:
  • Offset: Make the value shown in "Velocity" relative to the previous dynamic marking.
  • User: Make the value shown in "Velocity" absolute (i.e. the MIDI velocity is unaffected by dynamic markings).
• Velocity: Set the MIDI velocity according to the option displayed in "Velocity type."
• Fix to line: When ticked, the note is fixed to the top line of the standard 5-line staff.
• Line: A positive number moves the "fixed" note down; a negative number moves it upwards.

Select

This category appears differently according to the selection you have made:

• If you select a notehead, the "Select" category displays buttons which allow you to easily switch the selection to the stem, beam, hook, duration dot (or dots) or tuplet number associated with the notehead (see image below).

• If you select a range of measures, the "Select" category allows you to select either all notes, grace notes (from version 2.1) or rests.

Beam

This section is displayed in the Inspector when you select one or more note beams, and allows you to make fine adjustments to beam position and angle, and also change the spacing of beamed notes. See Adjust beam with the inspector.

Clef

This section appears when you select a clef: the tick box allows you to turn on/off the display of a preceding courtesy clef.

Properties dialogs

Properties of some objects are accessed by right-clicking on the object and choosing a "Properties" option from the context menu: these are in addition to the object's properties displayed in the Inspector.

(Note: Properties should not be confused with Styles. Changes to properties only affect the single element selected; all style controls apply to the entire score.)

Articulation properties

Right-click on an articulation and select Articulation Properties... See Articulations and ornaments.

Fretboard diagram properties

Right-click on a fretboard diagram and select Fretboard Diagram Properties... Allows you to create custom fretboard diagrams. See Edit fretboard diagram.

Line properties

Right-click on a line and select Line Properties... There are settings for the beginning, end, or continuation of the line. You can add or remove text, adjust the text's placement, and set the length and angle of optional hooks. Click the ... button to access text properties for text included in the line. See Custom lines and line properties.

Measure properties

Right-click on an empty part of the measure and select Measure Properties... Adjust visibility, bar duration, repeats, stretch and numbering. See Measure properties.

Staff properties

Right-click either an empty part of a measure or the name of an instrument and select Staff Properties... This dialog allows you to adjust attributes of both the single staff and the instrument it is a part of. See Staff properties.

Text properties

Right click on a text-based element and select Text Properties... See Text styles and properties. If the element is a line with text in it, see → above.

Time signature properties

Right-click on a time signature and select Time Signature Properties... Used to adjust appearance of time sig. and beam properties of notes. See Time signatures.

See also

• Measure operations
• Note input
• Layout and formatting
• Staff properties
• Part extraction

Tahtioperaatiot

Huom: Varmistaaksesi, että sijoitetut tai liitetyt tahdit näkyvät oikein, monitahtiset tauot pitäisi olla poissa päältä (paina M).

Valitse

Yksittäinen tahti

• valitaksesi yksittäisen tahdin, klikkaa tyhjää tilaa tahdin sisäpuolella.

Tahtien valikoima

• To select a continuous range of measures, see Shift + click selection and Shift selection.

Sijoita

Sijoita tyhjä tahti partituuriin

Käytä jotakin seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Valitse tahti, sitten paina Ins (no shortcut on Mac).
• Select a measure then chose from the menu: Add→Measures→Insert Measure.

Sijoita useita tahteja

Käytä jotakin seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Select a measure, then press Ctrl+Ins (no shortcut on Mac); fill in the "Number of measures to insert" field and press OK.
• Select a measure then chose from the menu: Add→Measures→Insert Measures...; fill in the "Number of measures to insert" field and press OK.

Lisää

Lisää tyhjä tahti partituurin loppuun

Käytä jotakin seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Paina Ctrl+B (Mac: ⌘+B).
• Valitse valikosta: Add→Tahdit→Lisää tahti loppuun.

Lisää monta tahtia partituurin loppuun

Käytä jotakin seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Paina Alt+Shift+B (Mac: Option+Shift+B); täytä kenttä "Lisättävien tahtien määrä" ja paina OK.
• Valitse valikosta: Luo→Tahdit→Lisää tahteja loppuun...; täytä kenttä "Lisättävien tahtien määrä" ja paina OK.

Poista

Poista yksittäinen tahti

1. Klikkaa tahtia;
2. Paina Ctrl+Del (Mac: Cmd+Del); tai valitse valikosta Muokkaa→Tahdit→Poista valitut tahdit.

Delete a range of measures

1. Select the range of measures to delete (see above);
2. Press Ctrl+Del (Mac: Cmd+Del); or from the menu, select Edit→Measures→Delete Selected Measures.

Notes: (1) In multi-staff scores, measure deletion also removes all corresponding measures in the other staves of the system; (2) If you wish to delete only the measure contents (and not the measure itself), use the Del command instead at step "2."

Properties

To edit the properties of a measure, right-click an empty part of the measure and select Measure Properties...:

You can use the buttons, at the bottom left of the dialog, to navigate to the previous or next measure.

Staves

• The visible property allows you to show/hide the notes and staff lines for the current measure.
• The stemless property allows you to show/hide all note stems for the current measure. Notes that normally have a stem such as half notes (minims) and quarter notes (crotchets) only show the note head when marked as stemless.

Measure duration

This feature allows you to adjust the time signature of a single measure regardless of the time signature indicated in the score. You can use it to create a pickup measure (also known as anacrusis or upbeat), cadenza, ad lib section etc.

• Nominal is the apparent time signature and cannot be edited.
• Actual can be set to anything you like regardless of the nominal time signature.

Example: In the image below, the quarter note pickup measure has a nominal time signature of 4/4, but an actual time sig. of 1/4. The measures in the middle are in normal 4/4 time. The complementary measure at the end of the staff, with a dotted half note, has an actual time sig. of 3/4.

Other

Exclude from measure count

Use "Exclude from measure count" for "irregular" measures, i.e. ones that should not get counted in the measure numbering. Normally, a pickup measure is marked as "Exclude from measure count".

Add to measure number

You can also use the "Add to measure number" option to influence the measure numbering. You can enter positive or negative numbers here. Please note that this affects all subsequent measures. A value of "-1" has the same effect as marking a measure to be excluded from measure count.

Layout stretch

You can increase or decrease horizontal space between score elements (notes, rests, etc.) with this option. This provides a more precise control over the exact same measure spacing property as the menu commands or keyboard shortcuts for Increase/Decrease Stretch ({ and }), which are accessed outside of the Measure Properties dialog while a measure is selected.

Play Count (as of version 2.1) / Repeat count (prior to version 2.1)

If the measure contains an end repeat barline, you can define how often it is played.

Break multi-measure rests

This property will separate a multi-measure rest at the start of the selected measure. This option should be checked before you turn on the "Create multi-measure rests" option in Style→General..., in the "Score" tab.

Multi-measure rests are automatically broken at important breaks, such as rehearsal marks, time signature changes, double barlines, irregular measures, etc. The default for scores is off, for parts is on.

Numbering

MuseScore automatically numbers the first measure of each System (except for the first system, actually except for a measure with the number 1), but more numbering options are possible. From the main menu, choose Style→General..., in the left pane, choose the "Header, Footer, Numbers" tab. At the bottom of the right pane is the "Measure Numbers" ("Bar Numbers") section.

Mark the checkbox next to the "Measure Numbers" ("Bar Numbers") to turn on automatic measure numbers.

Mark "Show first" if you want the first measure numbered.

Mark "All staves" if you want numbers on all staves. Otherwise, only the top staff of each system shows measure numbers.

Choose to show numbers on "Every system" which numbers the first measure of each line, or show numbers by "Interval" and specify the size of the interval. For example, an interval of 1 numbers every measure; an interval of 5 numbers every fifth measure.

Split and join

You may want have to have a longer or shorter measure without changing the time signature. You can change a measure's duration in Measure Properties, but there is now a new option to split or join measures. (Beams may be automatically modified.)

Join measures

1. Select the measures you want to join;
2. From the menu bar, select Edit→Measure→Join Selected Measures.

Note: If you select measures on only one staff in a score with multiple staves, the same measures will be joined in each staff of the system.

For example, the image below shows the result of applying the Join command to four measures in the top staff:

Split a measure

1. Select a note (or chord);
2. From the menu bar, select Edit→Measure→Split Measure Before Selected Note.

Note: If you select only one note from one staff, each staff of the system will be split at the same place.

External links

• How to delete measures
• How to span a measure over multiple systems
• How to get scores without time signature (and clef)

Stemmaäänet

Ääni on musiikillinen säe tai osa, jolla voi olla muista äänistä riippumatta oma rytmi samalla nuottiviivastolla. Ääniä kutsutaan joskus muissa nuotinnosohjelmissa "tasoiksi" (layer).

Jokaisella nuottiviivastolla voi olla enintään neljä ääntä. Moniäänisessä tahdissa tavallisesti ääni 1 esittää ylästemmoja ja ääni 2 alastemmoja.

Note: The feature called "Voices" should not be confused with "vocal staves," which can be added from the Instruments dialog (accessed by pressing I). When creating a closed SATB score, use Voices 1 and 2 for Soprano and Alto parts on the top staff, and use Voices 1 and 2 on the bottom staff for Tenor and Bass parts—do not use Voices 3 and 4 for Tenor and Bass.

When to use voices

• If you need stems pointing in opposite directions within a chord, on a single staff.
• If you need notes of different durations within a single staff, played simultaneously.

How to enter notes in different voices

The following instructions show you how to notate a passage of music in two voices:

1. Enter voice 1 notes first: Make sure you are in note input mode : the Voice 1 button becomes highlighted in blue in the toolbar. Enter the notes in the top voice first. When inputting, some notes may have down-stems, but these will flip automatically when the second voice is added.

   The following excerpt shows a treble staff with just the voice 1 notes entered:

   

2. Move cursor back to start of section: When you have finished entering a section of voice 1 notes, press the ← key repeatedly to move the cursor, note-by-note, back to the first note of the section; or alternatively use Ctrl+← (Mac:Cmd+←) to move the cursor back one measure at a time. Or else you can simply exit note input mode (press Esc) and click directly on the first note.

3. Enter voice 2 notes: Make sure you are in note-input mode and that the voice 1 note at the beginning of the section is selected. Click on the "Voice 2" button (on the right of the toolbar), or use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+2 (Mac: Cmd+Option+2). Enter all the lower voice notes (down-stem).

The following image shows the above example after the addition of voice 2 notes:

Deleting and hiding rests

While the rests of voices 2, 3, and 4 can be deleted, rests in voice 1 are permanent. However, they can be hidden, if required, by making them invisible. To hide a rest, select it and press V; or uncheck the "Visible" checkbox in the Inspector (see also Visibility options).

Exchange voices of notes

To swap the notes between any two voices:

1. Select a range of measures;
2. From the Menu bar, select Edit → Voices;
3. Exchange any two voices from the list.

Notes: (a) The selection can encompass content of any voice, but only two will be processed at once. (b) If you select a partial measure the operation will still apply to the whole measure.

Move notes to another voice (without swapping)

You can also move notes from one voice to another (without note-swapping):

1. Ensure you are not in note input mode.
2. Select one or more noteheads (in any voice).
3. Click on the destination voice in the Note Input toolbar or use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+1–4 (Mac: Cmd+Option+1-4).

Note: For a successful move, the following conditions should be met:

• The chord(s) in the destination voice must be the same duration as the note(s) to be moved there.
• There is enough rest duration in the destination voice to accommodate the new notes.
• The note(s) cannot be connected by a tie.

See also

• Voices: keyboard shortcuts
• Shared noteheads

External links

• How to merge/combine/implode two staves in one with two voices
• Video tutorial: How To Write Two Parts On One Staff: Voices

Kopioi ja liitä

MuseScore tukee standardia kopiointi-, leikkaus-, liitä- ja (versio 2.1) vaihda leikepöydältä -komentoja. Näitä komentoja voidaan soveltaa:

• sävelalueille: esim. partituurin osan kertaukseen tai siirtää musiikkiote iskulla tai tahdilla.
• muihin partituurin elementteihin: esim. artikulaatiot, viivaston teksti, dynamiikat, sormitus jne.

Huom: Viivoja ei voida kopioida, mutta niitä voidaan jäljentää (kts. alla).

Kopioi-/liitä-/vaihda-/ komentoihin pääsee käsiksi kolmella eri tavalla:

• muokkausvalikosta (dokumentti-ikkunan yläpuolella).
• painamalla osoitinlaitteen kakkospainikkeella elementtiin tai elementteihin, mikä tuo esille toimintovalikon.
• käyttämällä yhtä tai useampaa yleistä pikanäppäintä.

Yhteenveto toiminnoista

Huom: Ennen kuin suoritat kopioinnin, leikkaamisen, liittämisen tai vaihdon loppuun, sinun täytyy olla normaalitilassa. Paina Esc-näppäintä to poistuaksesi normaalitilaan.

Nuotit

Voit leikata, kopioida, liittää tai vaihtaa nuotteja seuraavasti:

Kopioi tai leikkaa

kopiomalla/leikkaamalla yksittäisen soinnun

1. Paina ja pidä Shift-näppäintä pohjassa ja klikkaa soinnussa olevaa säveltä.
2. käytä kopiointi- tai liitä- vaihtoehtoa (kts. luettelo yllä).

kopiomalla/leikkaamalla sarjan sointuja

1. Klikkaa ensimmäiseen nuottiin tai tahtiin, jonka haluat valita.
2. Käytä näppäinyhdistelmää Shift+Click viimeiseen nuottiin tai tahtiin, jonka haluat valita. Valitsemaasi aluetta korostaa sininen suorakulmio.
3. Käytä kopionti- tai liitä- vaihtoehtoa. (kts. luettelo yllä).

Liittäminen

1. Klikkaa nuottia tai tahtia, josta haluat liittämäsi valinnan alkavan.
2. Käytä kopionti- tai liitä- vaihtoehtoa. (kts. luettelo yllä).

Vaihda leikepöydältä

Saatavilla versiosta 2.1 ja eteenpäin, vaihda leikepöydältä -toiminto yhdistää kaksi komentoa yhdeksi: (1) Ensiksi se korvaa valitun osan partituurista leikepöydän sisältöön, aivan kuten liitä-komentokin; (2) Toiseksi, se siirtää ylikirjoitetun partituurin osan takaisin leikepöydälle, aivan kuten kopiontikomentokin.

Toimintoa voidaan käyttää esimerkiksi kahden samanpituisen partituurin osan, A:n ja B:n , vaihtamiseen:

1. Valitse valinta A, sitten käytä leikkaustoimintoa;
2. Poista valinta (painamalla Esc-näppäintä tai klikkaamalla dokumentti-ikkunan tyhjää aluetta);
3. Paina Shift ja klikkaa nuottia valinnan B alusta tai jos B alkaa tahdin alusta, voit yksinkertaisesti myös valita tahdin;
4. Käytä Vaihda leikepöydältä- toimintoa (kts. luettelo yllä).
5. Valinta B on nyt leikepöydällä. Liitä se takaisin askeleen "1" tyhjäksi jättämään partituurin alueeseen.

Kopioi vain yksittäisen sävelen sävelkorkeus

On mahdollista kopioida vain nuotin sävelkorkeus (ilman muita ominaisuuksia) klikkaamalla nuotinpäätä ja soveltamalla tavallista kopiomista ja liittämistä tai kopioimista ja leikepöydältä vaihtamista. Kohdenuotin sävelkorkeus muuttuu samaksi kuin kopioidun nuotin, mutta aika-arvo pysyy ennallaan.

Muut elementit

Muita partituurin elemettejä (kuten viivaston teksti, dynamiikka, sormitus, sointukaaviot jne.) voi leikata, kopioida ja liittää yksitellen. Artikulaatiot (sforzato, staccato jne.), taas sallivat monivalinnan.

Huom: Leikepöydältä vaihto -komento on tarkoitettu käytettäväksi vain musiikin osiin eikä muihin partituurin elementteihin.

Kopioi tai leikkaa

1. Valitse elementti (tai elementit).
2. Käytä vaihtoehtoja Kopioi tai Leikkaa (kts. taulukko yllä).

Liitä

1. Klikkaa nuottia, johon haluat valitsemasi alueen alkavan.
2. Käytä yhtä Liitä -vaihtoehdoista (kts. taulukko yllä).

Artikulaatioiden tapauksessa, liittäminen tapahtuu kohdenuotteihin tarkalleen samassa (jatkuvassa tai ajoittaisessa) järjestyksessä kuin ne olivat alkuperäisessäkin valinnassa.

Pikakertaus

Kopioidaksesi ja liittääksesi nuotin, tahdin tai kohdan nopeasti:

1. Valitse sointu, tahti tai kohta kuten kuvattu yllä.
2. Paina R .

MuseScore kopioi ja liittää valitun nuotinnoksen pisteeseen välittömästi viimeisen nuotin jälkeen valinnassa. Kaikki olemassa oleva musiikki kohdealueessa korvataan.

Jäljennä

Kopioidaksesi ja liittääksesi tekstielementin, viivan tai muun objektin välittömästi:

1. Pidä pohjassa Ctrl+Vaihtonäppäin (Mac: Cmd+Shift), klikkaa elementtiä ja raahaa mihin partituurin kohtaan tahansa.
2. Vapauta hiiren painike ja valittu elementti on jäljennetty uuteen sijaintiin.

Valintasuodin

Valintasuodin sallii sinun valita tarkalleen , mitkä äänet ja elementit haluat sisällyttää valintaasi.

• Näyttääksesi valintasuotimen, paina F6 (Mac: fn+F6); tai valitse valikosta Näytä→Valintasuodin.

Valintasuodin näkyy oletuksena Palettien alla. Vaihtaaksesi näkymän sijainnin, katso Tarkastelu ja navigointi: sivupaneelit.

Eesimerkiksi: Oletetaan, että haluat kopioida tahtien 1 ja 2 kulun seuraavasti (katso kuva) tahteihin 3 ja 4:

1. Varmista, että Valintasuodin näkyy (kts. yllä);
2. Poista ruksi kohdasta "Artikulaatiot & korukuviot" ja "Kaaret";
3. Kopioi ja liitä halutut tahdit (tässä esimerkissä, tahdit 1-2 tahteihin 3-4).

Huom: Valintasuodin toimii myös vaihda leikepöydältä -komennon kanssa.

Katso myös

Jos haluat muuttaa nuotteja niin, että et muuta niiden rytmiä, saat yhdistää transponoinnin tai sävelkorkeuden muuttamisen kopiointiin ja liittämiseen.

Ulkoiset linkit

• Video tutorial: Lyrics, copying & dynamics

Tarkastelu ja navigointi

Tämä kappale tarkastelee vaihtoehtoja, jotka ovat saatavilla Näytä valikosta, ja Suurennus ja Sivunäkymä/Jatkuva näkymä valikoissa (jotka sijaitsee työkalupalkissa partituurin yläpuolella). Se myös esittää yksityiskohtaisesti eri navigaatiokomentoja ja -toimintoja.

Näytä-valikko

Näytä sivupalkit/paneelit

• Aloituskeskus: F4
• Paletit: F9
• Pääpaletti: Shift+F9
• Tarkastaja: F8
• Toistopaneeli: F11
• Navigaattori: F12
• Mikseri: F10
• Syntetisaattori
• Valintasuodin: F6
• Pianokoskettimisto: P

Lähennä/loitonna

On olemassa monta tapaa lähentää tai loitontaa partituuria:

• Pikanäppäin:

  • Lähennä: Ctrl++ (Mac: Cmd ++)
  • Loitonna: Ctrl +- (Mac: Cmd +-).

• Näytä-valikko:

  • Lähennä: Näytä→Suurenna
  • Loitonna: Näytä→Pienennä.

• Hiiri

  • Lähennä: Rullaa hiiren rullaa ylöspäin samalla, kun painat pohjassa näppäintä Ctrl (Mac: Cmd)
  • Loitonna: Rullaa hiiren rullaa alaspäin samalla, kun painat pohjassa näppäintä Ctrl (Mac: Cmd).

• Pudotusvalikko: Säätääksesi täsmällisen zoomin, käytä hyväksi pudotusvalikkoa vakiotyökalupalkissa asettaaksesi partituurin suurennoksen (25–1600 %) tai näytä se käyttämällä vaihtoehtoja "Sivun leveys", "Koko sivu", tai "Kaksi sivua".

  

• Palautaaksesi 100% zoomin: Hyödynnä pikanäppäintä Ctrl+0 (Mac: Cmd+0).

Työkalupalkit (display)

As of MuseScore 2.1, this menu option allows you to hide or display the toolbars above the document window: File Operations, Playback Controls, Concert Pitch, Image Capture, Note Input (see Toolbars below).

Show Status bar

The Status bar, at the bottom of the screen, gives information about selected score elements. Tick/untick this option to display or hide.

Split display

It is possible to split the document display so as to view two documents at once, or to view two different parts of the same document. Tabs allow you to choose which document to display in each view. You can drag the barrier separating the two scores to adjust the amount of space in the window devoted to each:

• Documents Side by Side: Divides the window vertically into two score views.
• Documents Stacked: Divides the window horizontally into two score views, one above the other.

Visibility options

This section allows you to display or hide various non-printing elements:

• Show Invisible: View/hide elements that have been made invisible for printing and export. If this option is ticked, invisible elements are shown in the score window as light gray.
• Show Unprintable: View/hide breaks and spacer symbols.
• Show Frames: View/hide the dotted outlines of frames.
• Show Page Margins: View/hide Page Margins.

Full screen

Full Screen mode expands MuseScore to fill your screen so more content is visible.

Page/Continuous View

You can switch between two different views of the score using the drop-down list in the toolbar area:

Page View

In Page View, the score is formatted as it will appear when printed or exported as a PDF or image file: i.e. page by page, with margins. Line and page breaks are automatically applied—where possible—so that the score fits within the space available. You are free to override the automatic layout by adding your own line, page or system breaks.

Continuous View

In Continuous View, the score is shown as one unbroken system. Even if the starting point is not in view, measure numbers, instrument names, clefs, time and key signatures will always be displayed on the left of the window.

Note: Because the layout is simpler, MuseScore may perform faster in Continuous View than Page View.

Työkalupalkit

Työkalupalkkialue sijaitsee Päävalikon ja dokumentti-ikkunan välissä. Se sisältää symboleja, jotka sallivat sinun suorittaa erinäisiä toimintoja. Se voidaan jakaa seuraaviin työkaluriviin:

• Tiedostotoiminnot: Uusi partituuri, Lataa partituuri, Tallenna, Tulosta, Kumoa, Tee uudelleen.
• Zoom/Sivunäkymä.
• Toistosäätimet: Ota käyttöön MIDI, Hyppää alkuun, Toista/Pysäytä, Silmukkatoisto, Soita kertaukset, Metronomi.
• Soiva sävelkorkeus: Näyttää partituurin kirjoitettuna tai soivana äänialana.
• Kuvakaappaus: Sallii sinun ottaa tilannekuvan tietystä kohtaa partituuria.
• Nuotinsyöttö: Nuotinsyöttötila, Kesto, Yhdyskaari, Tauko, Tilapäiset etumerkit, Käännä varren suunta, Ääni (1, 2, 3, 4).

To choose which toolbars to display, right-click on an empty space in the toolbar area (or on the title bar of the Inspector) and, from the menu, check or uncheck the required options. This menu also allows you to view or hide the Piano keyboard, Selection sidebar, Palettes, the Inspector, and (if already displayed) the "Drum Tools" (i.e. Drum input palette).

These display options can also be accessed in the View menu, and, as of 2.1, in View→Toolbars.

Side panels

The workspaces, Inspector and Selection filter are conveniently displayed as side panels to the left and right of the score window. To undock a side panel use one of the following methods:

• Drag the panel;
• Click on the double chevron at the top of the panel;
• Double click in the title area at the top of the panel.

To dock a panel use one of the following procedures:

• Drag the panel to the top/bottom of an existing side panel and it will stack vertically above/below that panel.
• Drag the panel to the middle of an existing side panel and it will overlay that panel. Both panels can then be accessed by tabs.

Alternatively, double-clicking the title bar of the panel will restore it to its previously docked position.

Navigation

There are various commands available to help you navigate through the score. These are listed under Keyboard shortcuts: Navigation.

Navigator

The Navigator is an optional panel which allows you to navigate a long score more easily, or go to specific pages. To view/hide, go to the View→Navigator, or use the shortcut F12 (Mac: fn+F12). It appears at the bottom of the document window if scrolling pages horizontally, or on the right-hand side of the document window if scrolling pages vertically (see Preferences: Canvas).

The blue box represents the area of the score that is currently visible in the main window. You can drag either the blue box or the scroll bar, or click on an area to immediately go to it.

Find

The Find function allows you to speedily navigate to a specific measure, rehearsal mark or page number in the score:

1. Press Ctrl+F (Mac: Cmd+F), or select Edit→Find. This opens the Find (or Go to) bar at the bottom of the workspace.
2. Use one of the following options:
   • To go to a measure, enter the measure number (counting every measure starting with 1, irrespective of pickup measures, section breaks or manual changes to measure number offsets).
   • To go to a rehearsal mark, enter its name (the first character must be a letter for it to be "found", but subsequent text can be letters or numbers; the search is case insensitive).
   • To go to a numerical rehearsal mark (esp. one that does not match the measure number), enter the number using the format rXX (where XX is the rehearsal mark. To find a rehearsal mark that starts with "R" use rrXX. To find a rehearsal mark that starts with "P" and continues with a number, use rpXX). This works starting with version 2.1.
   • To go to a page, enter the page number using the format pXX (where XX is the page number; this also means that prior to version 2.1 you won't find a rehearsal mark that starts with "P" and continues with a number).

See also

• Save/Export/Print
• File format
• Layout and formatting

Valintatilat

Objects in the score—such as notes, measures, articulations etc.—can be selected in several ways: (1) one at a time, (2) as a continuous range, or (3) as a list.

Select a single object

Most score objects can be selected by simply clicking on them in "normal" (i.e. not note-input) mode.

Select a single note

1. Make sure you are not in note input mode;
2. Click on a note.

Note: Selecting a single note then copying and pasting it, will only copy and paste the pitch—not duration or other properties (such as stemless). To copy the entire note, including all properties, you need to hold down Shift—as for chord selection (below).

Select a chord

1. Make sure you are not in note input mode;
2. Press and hold Shift, then click on a note in the chord.

Select a single measure

• Click on a blank space within the measure.

Note: To select a range of consecutive measures, see Shift selection and Shift + click selection (below).

Select a continuous range of objects

There are several ways to select a continuous range of notes, chords or measures:

1. Shift selection

1. Make sure you are not in note entry mode;
2. Select the first note, chord, rest or measure in the range. You can extend the selection up or down to adjacent staves, if needed, using Shift+↑ or ↓;
3. Then choose one of the following options:
   • To advance the selection one chord at a time to the right: Press Shift+→.
   • To advance the selection one chord at a time to the left: Press Shift+←.
   • To advance the selection one measure at a time to the right: Press Shift+Ctrl+→ (Mac: Shift+Cmd+→).
   • To advance the selection one measure at a time to the left: Press Shift+Ctrl+← (Mac: Shift+Cmd+←).
   • To advance the selection to the beginning of the line: Press Shift+Home (Mac: Shift+Fn+←).
   • To advance the selection to the end of the line: Press Shift+End (Mac: Shift+Fn+→).
   • To extend the selection to the beginning of the score: Press Shift+Ctrl+Home (Mac: Shift+Cmd+Fn+←).
   • To extend the selection to the end of the score: Press Shift+Ctrl+End (Mac: Shift+Cmd+Fn+→).

2. Shift + click selection

To select a range of notes or rests:

1. Make sure you are not in note entry mode;
2. Click on the first note or rest in the range;
3. Press and hold Shift, then click on the last desired note or rest.

Note: The final selected element can be in the same staff or in staffs above or below the initial note/rest. All selected elements will be enclosed in a blue rectangle, including associated lines and articulations (but not voltas). You can repeat the operation to extend the selected range as required.

Select a range of measures

1. Click on a blank space in the first desired measure;
2. Hold down Shift, then click on a space in the last measure of the desired range.

Note: As with selecting notes, the range can be extended vertically as well as horizontally.

3. Drag selection

This method can be used to select notes or rests, or, independently, to select non-note symbols such as staccato dots, lyrics etc.:

• Press and hold Shift, then drag the cursor across the desired range.

4. Select All

This method selects the whole musical score including notes, rests and associated elements. Use one of the following options:

• Press Ctrl+A (Mac: Cmd+A).
• From the menu bar, select Edit → Select All.

5. Select section

This method is used to select a section—a region of the score starting and/or ending with a section break:

1. Click on an empty space in a measure in the section;
2. From the menu bar, select Edit → Select Section.

Note: See Copy and paste: Selection filter to disable certain types of elements from being selected in a range selection.

Select a list of objects

To select a list (or discontinuous range) of score elements:

1. Click on the first element;
2. Hold down Ctrl (Mac: Cmd) and successively click on the desired additional elements.

Note: This method cannot be used to select measures. Use single or range selection instead.

Select all similar

To select all elements of a specific type (e.g., all barlines, all text elements, all staccato markings):

1. Select an element;
2. Right click and chose Select…;

3. Several options are available:

   • All Similar Elements: Selects all elements in the score similar to the chosen object.
   • All Similar Elements in Same Staff: Selects all elements in the same staff similar to the chosen object.
   • All Similar Elements in Range Selection: only applies if a range has been selected. Selects all elements in the range similar to the chosen object.
   • More...: opens a dialog that lets you fine-tune more options. For example, if you have a notehead selected, the dialog will look something like this (as of version 2.1—previous versions had fewer options):

   

   Select

   • Same notehead: In this example, only noteheads of the same group will be selected;
   • Same pitch: Only noteheads of the same pitch will be selected;
   • Same type: All noteheads (of any group) will be selected;
   • Same duration: Only noteheads of same duration will be selected;
   • Same note name: Noteheads of that name in all octaves will be selected;
   • Same staff: Only noteheads on the same staff will be selected.

   Action

   • Replace selection: The default option: starts the selection from scratch;
   • Add to selection: Keeps everything you have already selected, and adds the current selection to it;
   • Search in selection:
   • Subtract from selection: Keep everything you have already selected, but takes away the current selection.

What selections are useful for

• Copy and paste
• Edit mode
• Inspector and object properties
• Tools

See also

• Basics chapter, esp. Note input
• Notation chapter, esp. Accidental
• Text chapter, esp. Tekstin muokkaaminen and Grid-based movement of symbols and staff text

Kumoa ja tee uudelleen

MuseScoressa on rajoittamaton määrä kumoa / tee uudelleen toimintoja.

Vakiopikanäppäimet ovat:

• Kumoa Ctrl+Z (Mac: ⌘+Z)
• Tee uudelleen Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y (Mac: ⌘+Shift+Z)

Tai hyödynnä työkalurivin painikkeita:

Tallenna/vie/tulosta

MuseScoressa Tiedosto-valikon alta voi löytää vaihtoehtoja, kuten Tallenna..., Tallenna nimellä..., Tallenna kopio..., Tallenna valinta..., Tallenna verkkoon..., Vie..., Vie stemmat... ja Tulosta....

Tallenna

Tallenna..., Tallenna nimellä..., Tallenna kopio..., ja Tallenna valinta... sallivat sinun tallentaa paikallisia MuseScore-tiedostoja (.mscz and .mscx).

• Tallenna...: Tallentaa nykyisen partituurin tiedostoksi.
• Tallenna nimellä...: Tallentaa nykyisen partituurin uudeksi tiedostoksi.
• Tallenna kopio...: Tallentaa nykyisen parituurin uudeksi tiedostoksi, mutta jatkaa alkuperäisen tiedoston muokkaamista.
• Tallenna valinta...: Tallentaa valitsemasi tahdit uudeksi tiedostoksi. Varmistaaksesi MuseScore 2.1:n aikaisemmissa versioissa, että tiedosto on tallennettu oikein, tahtiosoituksen pitää näkyä valitun kohdan ensimmäisessä tahdissa, ellei se ole 4/4.
• Tallenna verkkoon...: Tallentaa nykyisen partituurin sivulle MuseScore.com (kts. Partituurien jakaminen verkossa).

Vie

Vie... ja Vie stemmat... sallivat sinun luoda kolmannen osapuolen tiedostoja, kuten PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, ja eri ääni- ja kuvatiedostomuotoja.

Valintaikkunassa Vie, voit valita, mihin tiedostomuotoon haluat viedä:

• Vie...: Vie nykyisen partituurin haluamallesi tiedostomuotoon.
• Vie stemmat...: Export current score and all linked parts to separate files in format of your choice.

MuseScore remembers which format you picked the last time and makes that the default for the next time.
There is a known issue with Windows XP and Vista, where you have to manually (un)set the filename's extension when choosing a different format than the one selected the previous time.

Note: Uncompressed MuseScore format (MSCX) is available in both 'Save' and 'Export'.

Tulosta

Print... allows to print your MuseScore file directly to a printer from MuseScore. Depending on your printer you will have different options, but generally you can define the page range, number of copies and collation.

If you have a PDF printer installed, you could also "export" to PDF using that, although this is not recommended.
For this to work properly with Adobe PDF, make sure to uncheck Rely on system fonts only, do not use document fonts in Printer properties.

Katso myös

• File format
• Part extraction

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3. Click the link in the email and visit your user profile to change your password.

Share a score directly from MuseScore

To save a score online:

1. Make sure that the Concert Pitch button is off, and that the individual parts are correctly transposed.

2. From the menu, select File→Save Online.... The "Log in to MuseScore" dialog will appear:

   

3. Enter your email address or MuseScore username, and password, then click OK. Note: If you don't have a MuseScore account yet, create one first by clicking on the "Create an account" link. That will open your browser app and bring you to musescore.com/user/register.

4. Upon successfully logging in, you'll be able to enter your score information.

   

   • Title: The title of the score.
   • Description: The descriptive text that will appear next to it.
   • Make the score private: If ticked, the score can only be viewed via a private link. If unticked, the score is visble to all.
   • License: Chose an appropriate copyright license from the drop-down list. Note: Creative Commons license, allows people to use your scores under certain restrictions.
   • Tags: You can add tags to help identify scores on MuseScore.com. Use commas to separate multiple tags.

5. In case you already saved the score online earlier, it will automatically update the existing one, and, as of version 2.1, you can enter some additional information in a changlog section of the dialog. Uncheck Update the existing score to save online as a new score.

   

6. (As of version 2.1) If you are using a different SoundFont than the default one and if you are able to export MP3 files, a checkbox "Upload score audio" will be visible and enabled. If the checkbox is checked, MuseScore will render the audio of the score using the synthesizer settings and upload the audio to MuseScore.com.

Upload a score on MuseScore.com

You can also upload a score directly on MuseScore.com.

1. Click the Upload link on MuseScore.com.
2. You have the same options as with the Save Online menu.
3. You have also access to more information, such as Genre.

Note: Should you reach the five score upload limit, you can still upload scores directly from MuseScore, but only the last five are visible. If you wish more than this amount, upgrade to a Pro Account first.

Edit a score on MuseScore.com

If you want to make changes to one of your scores on MuseScore.com, edit the MuseScore file on your own computer, save it, and then do the following:

• If you originally shared the score directly from within MuseScore, simply go to File→Save Online... again to update the online score.
• If you originally uploaded the score via the Upload page on MuseScore.com, then you must follow these steps to update the online score:
  1. Go to the score page on MuseScore.com.
  2. Click the three dots menu ⋮ on the right and choose "Update this score".
  3. In the form, you can upload a replacement score file as well as change the accompanying information and privacy settings.

Switch to the direct method of updating an online score

It is much more convenient to update online scores from directly within MuseScore than by updating the score manually from the score page. Follow these steps if you originally uploaded the score via the Upload page and now want to switch to the direct method:

1. Go to the score page on MuseScore.com and copy the URL.
2. Open the score file on your computer with MuseScore.
3. From the menu, select File→Score Properties... and paste the URL into the "Source" field.

Now whenever you want to update the online score simply go to File→Save Online....

External links

• How to delete a score saved on MuseScore.com

Soiva sävelkorkeus

Voit halutessasi näyttää partituurin kirjoitettuna tai soivana äänialana. Kirjoitettu sävelkorkeus ilmaisee partituurin sellaisena kuin sen kuuluisi näyttää tulostettuna muusikoiden luettavaksi. Valmistelun aikana saatat kuitenkin pitää sopivampana nähdä transponoivat soittimet nuotinnettuna niin kuin ne kuulostavat ilman transponointia. Tässä tapauksessa pitäisi sinun valita "Soiva sävelkorkeus".

Vaihtaaksesi partituurin näkymää kirjoitetun- ja soivan äänialan välillä, noudata yhtä seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Paina työkalupalkissa yläoikealla sijaitsevaa Soiva sävelkorkeus -painiketta. Kun painike on korostettu, partituuri on soivassa sävelkorkeudessa.
• Valitse valikkopalkista Nuotit ja ruksaa tai poista merkintä vaihtoehdosta Soiva sävelkorkeus.

Ennen partituurin tulostamista, PDF-vientiä tai tallentamista verkkoon pitäisi sinun varmistaa, että Soiva sävelkorkeus -painike ei ole valittuna ja yksittäiset osat ovat asianmukaisesti transponoitu.

Katso myös

• Transposition: Transposing instruments
• Accidental: Respell pitches

Ulkoiset linkit

• Concert pitch (englanninkielinen Wikipedia-artikkeli)
• Transposing Instrument (englanninkielinen Wikipedia-artikkeli)
• Transponoivat soittimet (Aleatorin verkko-oppimateriaali)
• Concert pitch or not?? (MuseScoren keskustelupalsta)

Nuottiavaimet

Yleisesti käytetyt Nuottiavaimet (Diskantti, Basso, Altto, Tenori) löytyy paletista Nuottiavaimet perustyötilasta. Jos haluat täydellisemmän valikoiman, katso Nuottiavaimet-paletti Edistyneestä työtilasta (katso kuva alla).

Note: You can tailor the display of clefs to your specific requirements using a custom palette.

Add a clef

Add clef to beginning of measure

Method 1—add clef to beginning of a measure, whether or not it is the first measure in a system

• Select a measure and double-click a clef symbol in the palette, OR
• Drag a clef from the palette onto a measure.

Method 2—only for changing the clef at the start of a system

• Select the existing clef at the beginning of the system and double-click a new clef from the palette, OR
• Drag a new clef from the palette directly onto the existing clef.

Add mid-measure clef

To create a mid-measure clef:

• Click on a note, then double-click a clef in the palette.

Note: If the clef is not the first in the system, it will be drawn smaller.

In this image, the top staff starts with a treble clef and switches immediately to bass clef, then after a note and a rest, changes back to treble clef.

Note: Changing a clef does not change the pitch of any note. Instead, the notes move to preserve pitch. If you want, you can use Transposition in conjunction with a clef change.

Courtesy clefs

When a clef change occurs at the beginning of a system, a courtesy clef will be generated at the end of the previous system.

To show or hide all courtesy clefs:

1. From the menu, select Style→General...→Page;
2. Check/uncheck "Create courtesy clefs."

It is also possible to show/hide courtesy clefs on a case-by-case basis:

1. "Create courtesy clefs" should already be ticked in the "General" menu (see above);
2. Select a clef and tick/untick "Show courtesy" in the Inspector.

Remove a clef

• Select a clef and press Del.

Hide clefs

Display clef only in the first measure (for all staves)

1. From the menu, select Style→General...→ Page;
2. Uncheck "Create clef for all systems."

Display clef only in the first measure (for a particular staff)

1. Right click on the staff, select Staff properties... and uncheck "Show clef;"
2. Open the master palette and select the "Symbols" section;
3. Drag and drop a clef from the master palette onto the first measure of the staff; OR select the first note and double-click a clef in the master palette.

Note: This option may be useful to TAB users who do not want the clef to repeat on every subsequent line.

Hide all clefs in a particular staff

1. Right click on the staff, and select Staff properties...;
2. Uncheck "Show clef."

Sävellajimerkit

Sävellajimerkinnät ovat saatavilla paletissa "Sävellajimerkinnät" perus- tai edistyneessä työtilassa. On myös mahdollista luoda mukautettuja sävellajimerkintöjä (alhaalla).

Lisää uusi sävellajimerkintä

Lisää sävellajimerkintä kaikille viivastoille

Use any of the following methods:

• Drag a key signature from the palette onto an empty part of a measure.
• Select a measure and double-click a key signature in the palette.
• Select a note and double-click a key signature in a palette.

Add new key signature to one staff only

If you wish to change the key signature of only one staff line, leaving others unchanged:

• Press Ctrl (Mac: ⌘) and hold while you drag a key signature from a palette onto a measure.

Replace an existing key signature

Replace key signature for all staves

Use any of the following methods:

• Drag a key signature from the palette onto the key signature to be replaced (or onto the measure containing the key signature).
• Select the key signature to be replaced, and double-click a new key signature in a palette.

Replace key signature for one staff only

If you wish to replace the key signature of only one staff, leaving others unchanged:

• Press Ctrl (Mac: ⌘) and hold while you drag a key signature from a palette onto the key signature to be replaced (or onto the measure containing the key signature).

Remove a key signature

Use any of the following methods:

• Click on an existing key signature and press Del.
• Drag the empty key signature from the palette (in the advanced workspace) onto the measure.

Naturals on key signature changes

By default, MuseScore only shows cancelling naturals when the key signature changes to that of C Major/A minor (no sharps or flats). In all other cases, it simply shows the new key signature without cancellations:

However, you can opt to display cancelling naturals for all key signature changes:

1. From the menu, select Style → General... → Accidentals. You'll see the options:

   

2. Select one of the three options.

3. If you are in a part and want the new option to apply to all parts, click on Apply to all parts.
4. Click OK to exit.

For example, selecting the option "Before key signature if changing to fewer ♯ or ♭" gives:

And the option "After key signature if changing to fewer ♯ or ♭. Before if changing between ♯ and ♭" gives:

Key signature changes and multi-measure rests

Multi-measure rests are interrupted if there is change of key signature:

Courtesy key signatures

To turn off the display of a particular courtesy key signature:

• Select the relevant key signature and untick "Show courtesy" in the "Key Signature" section of the Inspector.

To turn off the display of all courtesy key signatures:

• From the menu, select Style → General... → Page, and untick "Create courtesy key signatures."

Note: Courtesy key signatures are not displayed at section breaks.

Custom key signatures

To create a custom key signature:

1. Press Shift+K to display the Key signatures section of the Master palette.

   

2. In the Create Key signature panel, drag accidentals from the palette onto the "staff" above to create the desired key signature. Use the Clear button, if required, to remove all accidentals from the "staff."

3. Press Add to move the new key signature into the library (center panel).

Note: Playback of custom key signatures is not currently supported.

To move a key signature from the Master palette to a custom palette:

• Drag and drop the key signature onto a palette.

To apply a key signatures to the score directly from the Master palette, use one of the following methods:

• Select a measure and double-click a key signature in the Master palette.
• Drag a key signature from the Master palette onto a measure.

Tahtiosoitukset

Tahtiosoitukset löytyy samannimisestä paletista sekä perus- että edistyneessä työtilassa.

Add a time signature to a score

To add a time signature, use any of the following methods:

• Drag and drop a time signature from a palette onto a space in a measure.
• Select a measure and then double-click a time signature in a palette.
• Select any note or rest and double-click a time signature in a palette.

The time signature will appear at the beginning of the measure in question.

To replace a time signature, use any of the following methods:

• Drag and drop a time signature onto an existing time signature.
• Select a time signature in the score, then double-click a time signature in a Palette.

Delete a time signature

To delete a time signature in the score, select it and press Del.

Create a time signature

If the time signature you require is not available in any of the existing palettes, it can be created as follows:

1. Press Shift+T to display the Time signatures section of the Master Palette.
2. Select a time signature to edit in the center panel.
3. In the Create Time Signature panel, edit the various parameters (numerator, denominator, text, beaming) to get the time signature and properties you want. To restore the default beaming pattern, press Reset.
4. Press Add to add the newly-created time signature to the center panel. To delete a time signature from the center panel, right-click on it and select Clear.
5. Drag and drop the time signature from the Master Palette to the desired score location.

To move a time signature from the Master Palette to a custom palette:

• Drag and drop the time signature onto a palette in a custom workspace.

Time signature properties

To display the Time Signature Properties dialog:

• Right-click on a time signature and select Time Signature Properties….

• Global value: Shows the global time signature and is set automatically when you add a time signature to the score. It is the reference for beats (as shown in the status bar) and tempo markings.
• Actual value: Shows the time signature associated with a particular staff. This is normally the same as the global time signature, but can be set independently if required. See Local time signatures.
• Note Groups; Allows you to change the default beaming of notes associated with a time signature. See Change default beaming.
• Appearance: Allows you to edit the displayed text without affecting the underlying time signature. For an example, see Additive meters.

Change default beaming

To adjust note-beaming for a particular time signature:

1. Right-click on the time signature and select, Time Signature Properties…;

2. To break a note beam in the Note Groups panel, click on the note following it. To reset the beam, click in the same place. Alternatively, you can change beaming by dragging a beam icon onto a note, as follows:

   • Start beam at this note.
   • Do not end beam at this note.
   • 1/8th note beam to left of this note.
   • 1/16 note beam to left of this note.

   The Reset button cancels any changes made in that session.

   Note: As of version 2.1, checking the box for "Also change shorter notes," means that any beam changes at one level are applied automatically to shorter durations as well. In versions before 2.1 you must adjust beams for the different note durations independently.

Additive (composite) meters

Additive (or composite) time signatures are sometimes used to clarify the division of beats within a measure. To create an additive time signature:

1. Right-click on a time signature in the score and select Time Signature properties…;
2. In the Appearance section, adjust the "Text" property as required;
3. Adjust note beaming in the Note Groups section if required.

Note: The Time Signatures section of the Master palette also allows you to create additive time signatures (see above).

Local time signatures

In certain cases a score may show staves with different time signatures running at the same time. For example, in Bach's 26. Goldberg Variation:

In the above example, the global time signature is 3/4, but the time signature of the upper staff has been set independently to 18/16.

To set a local time signature for just one staff:

• Hold down Ctrl (Mac: Cmd) and drag and drop a time signature from a palette onto an empty measure.

Pickup measures and cadenzas

Occasionally you will need to decrease or increase the duration of a measure without changing the time signature—for example, in a pickup measure (anacrusis) or in a cadenza etc. See Measure operations: Measure duration.

Time signature changes and breaks

Multi-measure rests are interrupted when a time signature change occurs. Also, a section break will prevent a courtesy time signature being shown at the end of the previous measure.

See also

• Key signature

External links

• How To Using Polyrhythm, mixed meters and local time signatures in MuseScore
• Additive meters at Wikipedia.

Tahtiviivat

Tahtiviivasymbolit ovat käytettävissä paletissa Tahtiviivat:

Tahtiviivatyypin vaihtaminen

Vaihtaaksesi jo olemassaolevan tahtiviivan, tee jotain seuraavista:

• Valitse tahtiviiva, sitten tuplaklikkaa symbolia paletissa tahtiviivat.
• Raahaa symboli tahtiviivat-paletista partituurin tahtiviivaan.
• Raahaa symboli tahtiviivat-paletista tahtiin.
• Valitse tahti, sitten tuplaklikkaa symbolia tahtiviivat-paletista.
• Valitse tahtiviiva, sitten säädä "Tyyliä" kohdassa "Tahtiviiva" Tarkastajassa.

Piilottaaksesi tahtiviivan, valitse viiva ja paina V, tai poista merkintä kohdasta Näkyvä Tarkastajassa. Väriä ja vaaka- ja pystysuoraa poikkeamaa voidaan myös säätää tarkastajassa.

Insert barline

To insert a new barline between existing ones, either:

• Drag a symbol from the Barlines palette onto a note or rest.
• Select a note or rest, then double-click a symbol in the Barlines palette.

Custom barlines

It is possible to create custom barlines by selecting one or more barlines, and adjusting the properties in the "Barlines" section of the Inspector:

• Style: Chose from a range of preset barlines.
• Spanned staves: The maximum equals the number of staves in the system.
• Span from: Sets the position of the top of the barline. "0" is the top staff line. Positive numbers start lower down the staff, negative numbers above.
• Span to: Sets the position of the bottom of the barline (see "Span from").
• Span preset: Set a span preset option.

See also, Mensurstrich.

Connect barlines

Barlines may extend over multiple staves, as in the grand staff of a piano, or in an orchestral score to join instruments in the same section. To join barlines:

1. Double-click on a barline to enter Edit mode.

   

2. Click on the lower blue handle and drag it down to the staff you wish to connect to. The handle snaps into position so there is no need to position it exactly.

3. Press Esc to exit edit mode. This will update all other relevant barlines as well.

   

See also

• Measure operations
• Add fermata to barline

Arpeggiot ja glissandot

Arpeggio and Glissando symbols can be found in the "Arpeggios & Glissandi" palette in the advanced workspace. This palette also includes strum arrows, an arpeggio bracket, wind instrument articulations, and slide in/slide out symbols.

To add a symbol to the score, use one of the following methods:

• Select one or more notes, then double-click a symbol in the "Arpeggios & Glissandi" palette.
• Drag a symbol from the "Arpeggios & Glissandi" palette onto a note.

Any symbol can be customized by adjusting its properties in the Inspector. Edit handles are also provided in most cases to allow adjustment of length/curvature in Edit mode. If needed for future use, you can save the result in a custom palette.

Arpeggios

When an arpeggio or strum arrow is added to the score, it initially spans only one voice. However, you can easily adjust its height by double-clicking the symbol and dragging the handles up or down (for finer adjustment use the keyboard arrows). Playback of the symbol can be turned on or off in the Inspector.

Glissandi (slides)

A Glissando or, more informally, a slide, spans two consecutive notes, normally in the same voice.

Chord glissandi are also possible.

Adjust start and end points

1. Double-click the symbol to enter edit mode;
2. Click on the start or end handle:
   • Use Shift+↑↓ to move the handle up or down, from note to note.
   • Use Shift+←→ moves the handle horizontally, from note to note.

This method also allows you to move handles between notes in different voices or even from one staff to another—for cross-staff glissandi, for example. You can also use the keyboard arrow buttons or Ctrl + arrow to make final adjustments to the positions of the handles.

Custom glissandi

To customize the glissando to your requirements, select it and adjust the Inspector properties as follows :

• Type: Choose between a straight or wavy line;
• Text: Edit, or delete the text. Note: If there isn't enough room between notes, the text is not displayed;
• Style: Chose how the glissando plays back. There are four options: Chromatic, White keys, Black keys, Diatonic;
• Play: Check/uncheck the box to turn playback on or off.

Wind instrument articulations

Fall, Doit, Plop and Scoop symbols are provided. To change the length and curvature, select the symbol, enter edit mode and adjust the handles as described in Edit mode: Lines.

Slide in/out

Slide in and Slide out lines can also be found in the "Arpeggios & Glissandi" palette. To edit the length and angle of a line, double-click on it and drag the handle (or use keyboard arrows for finer adjustment).

External links

• Arpeggio at Wikipedia
• Glissando at Wikipedia

Artikulaatio ja korukuviot

A comprehensive set of symbols can be found in the Articulations and Ornaments palette in the Advanced workspace:

There is also an abbreviated version in the Basic workspace.

Articulations

Articulations are the symbols added to the score to show how a note or chord is to be played. The principal symbols in this group are:

• Fermatas
• Staccato
• Mezzo-staccato / Portato
• Staccatissimo
• Tenuto
• Sforzato
• Marcato

Specialist articulations are also included for bowed and plucked strings, wind instruments etc.

Ornaments

Ornaments include:

• Mordents, Inverted Mordents, Pralltrillers
• Trills
• Turns
• Bends

Note: Appoggiaturas and acciaccaturas can be found in the Grace Notes palette.

Add articulation/ornament

Use either of the following methods:

• Select a note or a range of notes, then double-click a symbol in a palette.
• Drag a symbol from a palette onto a notehead.

Add accidental to an ornament

To apply an accidental to an existing ornament, such as a trill:

1. Select the note to which the ornament is attached;
2. Open the Symbols section of the Pääpaletti;
3. Search for and apply the desired accidental to the score (small accidentals can be found using the search term "figured bass");
4. Drag the accidental into position (or reposition using keyboard shortcuts or the Inspector).

Add fermata to a barline

A fermata can be applied directly to a barline by selecting the barline and double-clicking the fermata from a palette.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Toggle Staccato: Shift+S
• Toggle Tenuto: Shift+N
• Toggle Sforzato (accent): Shift+V
• Toggle Marcato: Shift+O
• Add Acciaccatura (grace note): /

Keyboard shortcuts can be customized in MuseScore's Preferences.

Adjust position

Immediately after adding an articulation or ornament from a palette, the symbol is automatically selected: It can then be moved up or down from the keyboard as follows:

• Press up/down arrow keys for fine positioning (0.1 sp at a time);
• Press Ctrl+↑ or Ctrl+↓ (Mac: Cmd+↑ or Cmd+↓) for larger vertical adjustments (1 sp at a time).
• To flip a symbol to the other side of the note (where applicable), select it and press X.

To enable adjustments in all directions from the keyboard:

1. Double click on the symbol to enter Edit mode, or click on it and press Ctrl+E (Mac: Cmd+E) , or right-click on the symbol and select "Edit element";
2. Press arrow keys for fine positioning (0.1 sp at a time); or press Ctrl+Arrow (Mac: Cmd+Arrow) for larger adjustments (1 sp at a time).

You can also change the horizontal and vertical offset values in the Inspector. To position more than one symbol at a time, select the desired symbols and adjust the offset values in the Inspector.

Note: The symbol can also be repositioned by clicking and dragging, but for more precise control, use the methods above.

Articulation properties

Most properties of articulations/ornaments can be edited from the Inspector. Other properties (i.e. direction and anchor position) can also be accessed by right-clicking on the symbol and selecting Articulation Properties….

You can also make global adjustments to all existing and subsequently-applied articulations by selecting Style… → General… → Articulations, Ornaments.

See also

• Grace notes

External links

• Ornaments at Wikipedia

Etuhelenuotit

A grace note is a type of musical ornament, usually printed smaller than regular notes. The Short grace note, or Acciaccatura, appears as a small note with a stroke through the stem. The Long grace note, or Appoggiatura, has no stroke.

Create grace notes

Grace notes can be found in the "Grace notes" palette in the Basic or Advanced workspace.

Add a grace note

Use one of the following methods:

• Select a regular note and double click a grace note in a palette;
• Drag a grace note symbol from a palette onto a regular note;
• Select a note and press / to create an acciaccatura only.

This will add a grace note of the same pitch as the regular note. To add a sequence of grace notes to a regular note, simply repeat the above actions as many times as required. See also, Change pitch (below).

Note: When a grace note is added to the score, a slur is not automatically created with it, so the latter needs to be added separately. See Slurs.

Add a chord of grace notes

Grace note chords are built up just like regular chords:

1. Enter the first note of the chord as shown above
2. Select this first grace note and enter subsequent notes as you would for any other regular chord (i.e. Shift+A...G).

You can also create a grace note chord by using the add interval shortcut in step 2: Alt+1...9 for intervals from a unison to a ninth above.

Change pitch

The pitch of a grace note can be adjusted just like a regular one:

1. Select one or more grace notes
2. Adjust pitch using the keyboard arrow commands, namely:
   • ↑ or ↓ to increase or decrease the pitch by a semitone;
   • Alt+Shift+↑ or Alt+Shift+↓ to increase or decrease the pitch one step at a time, according to the key signature.

Change duration

If you want to change the duration of a previously created grace note, select it and choose a duration from the toolbar or enter with one of the keys 1...9 (see Note input).

Manual adjustment

The position of a grace note after a note (such as a trill termination) may have to be adjusted by selecting the note, going into edit mode and using the left/right keyboard arrows; or change the chord offset values in the Inspector.

External links

• Grace note at Wikipedia
• Appoggiatura at Wikipedia
• Acciaccatura at Wikipedia

Etumerkit

Yleisimmät etumerkkityypit löytyy partituurin yläpuolelta Etumerkkien työkalupalkista ja Etumerkit-paletista perustyötilasta. Laajempi valikoima löytyy Etumerkit-paletista edistyneessä työtilassa.

Lisää etumerkki

Etumerkit lisätään automaattisesti nuottiin tarvittaessa, kun korotat tai alennat sen sävelkorkeutta:

• ↑: Korottaa nuotin sävelkorkeutta puolisävelaskeleella (suosii korotusmerkkiä).
• ↓: Alentaa nuotin sävelkorkeutta puolisävelaskeleella (suosii alennusmerkkiä).

Lisääksesi joko (i) kaksoisalennuksen tai -korotuksen, (ii) muistutusetumerkin tai (iii) yleisestä poikkeavan etumerkin, käytä yhtä seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Valitse nuotti ja klikkaa etumerkkiä partituurin yläpuolella sijaitsevasta työkalupalkista.
• Valitse nuotti ja tuplaklikkaa etumerkkiä Etumerkit-paletista (perus- tai edistyneessä työtilassa).
• Raahaa etumerkki Etumerkit-paletista nuottiin.

Jos haluat lisätä sulut muistutusetumerkkiin, käytä yhtä seuraavista:

• Valitse etumerkki partituurista ja tuplaklikkaa sulkusymbolia Etumerkit-paletista.
• Raahaa ja pudota sulkusymboli paletista etumerkkiin.
• Valitse etumerkki ja ruksaa "Hakasulkeen laatikkoa" Tarkastajassa (alkaen versiosta 2.1).

Jos muutat myöhemmin nuotin sävelkorkeutta nuolinäppäimillä, etumerkin manuaaliset asetukset poistetaan.

Tarvittaessa etumerkkejä voi poistaa klikkamalla niihin ja painamalla näppäintä Del.

Muuta enharmonista kirjoitusasua

Muuttaaksesi nuotin tai nuottien enharmonista kirjoitusasua kirjoitetun ja soivan sävelkorkeuden näkymässä:

1. Valitse nuotti tai joukko nuotteja;
2. Paina J;
3. Jatka näppäimen J painamista selataksesi läpi enharmoniset vastineet.

To change the enharmonic spelling in the written pitch view, without affecting the concert pitch view, or vice versa:

1. Select a note, or group of notes;
2. Press Ctrl+J (Mac: Cmd+J);
3. Continue pressing the same combination of keys to cycle through the enharmonic equivalents.

Note: If the pitches of selected notes are not all the same, the effect may be unpredictable.

Muuta sävelkorkeuksien kirjoitusasua

• Valitse valikosta Nuotit→Muuta sävelkorkeuksien kirjoitusasua.

Katso myös

• Sävellajimerkintä: muuta

Ulkoiset linkit

• Etumerkki Wikipediassa
• Enharmoniset sävelet Wikipediassa

Hengitysmerkit ja tauot

Hengitysmerkit ja tauot ovat saatavilla Hengitykset & tauot paletissa iedistyneessä työtilassa.

Lisää symboli

Lisääksesi hengityksen tai tauon (jälkimmäistä kutsutaan myös nimellä kesuura) partituuriin, käytä yhtä seuraavista vaihtoehdoista:

• Valitse nuotti tai tauko ja tuplaklikkaa hengitys- tai taukosymbolia paletissa
• Raahaa hengitys- tai taukosymboli paletista partituuriin nuotin tai tauon päälle.

Symboli on sijoitettu nuotin perään.

Saatat myöhemmin haluta säätää sen asentoa menemällä muokkaustilaan (Ctrl+E, Mac: Cmd+E) ja käyttämällä nuolinäppäimiä, raahamalla, tai by muuttamalla poikkeama-arvoja Tarkastajassa.

Säädä tauon pituutta

Versiosta 2.1 eteenpäin, voit säätää lisätyn symbolin tauon pituutta (sekunteina) hyödyntämällä "Kesuura" luokkaa Tarkastajassa.

Kiilat

Add a hairpin

Hairpins are line objects. To create a hairpin:

1. Select a range of notes or measures;
2. Use one of the following shortcuts:
   • <: to create a crescendo hairpin.
   • >: to create a diminuendo hairpin (decrescendo).

Alternatively, use one of the following options:

• Select a range of notes or measures, and double-click a hairpin in a palette.
• Drag and drop a hairpin from a palette onto a staff line.

Adjust length

1. Double-click on the hairpin to enter edit mode. Then click on the end handle that you want to move:

   

2. Use one of the following shortcuts:

   • Shift+→ to move the end handle, and its anchor, right by one note or rest.
   • Shift+← to move the end handle, and its anchor, left by one note or rest;

   This method of extending or shortening the hairpin maintains playback integrity and allows it to cross line breaks:

   

3. To change the position of an end handle without changing the position of its anchor, use the following shortcuts:

   • → to move the handle right by 0.1 sp.
   • ← to move the handle left 0.1 sp.
   • Ctrl+→ (Mac: Cmd+→) to move the handle right one sp.
   • Ctrl+← (Mac: Cmd+→) to move the handle left one sp.

   Note: The commands listed in step 3 are only used to tweak the final appearance of the hairpin (e.g. see image below): they do not change its playback extent nor do they allow it to cross line breaks. If you want the latter, use the Shift+→ or Shift+← commands instead (step 2).

   

   Note: The "Reset" command (Ctrl+R (Mac: Cmd+R)) will undo these small adjustments, but will not undo anchor changes.

Cresc. and dim. lines

In addition to hairpins, there are cresc.   _     _     _ and dim.   _     _     _ lines with the same function in the Lines palette. To change the text (e.g. to cresc. poco a poco, or decresc. instead of dim), right-click on the line and choose Line Properties....

To turn a hairpin into its equivalent text line:

1. Select the hairpin.
2. In the Inspector, set "Line style" to "Wide dashed."
3. In the Inspector, select the "Text line" checkbox.

Hairpin playback

Playback of crescendos and diminuendos is only effective from one note to the next; it currently is not possible to change the dynamic over the course of a single note (and tied notes count as single notes here). By default, hairpins will affect playback only if dynamics are used before and after the hairpin.

For instance, a crescendo spanning notes between p and f dynamics will cause a dynamic change on playback. However, between any two successive dynamics only the first appropriate hairpin will have effect: a diminuendo between p and f will be ignored; of two or more crescendos between p and f, all but the first will be ignored.

A hairpin may be used without dynamic marks, by adjusting "Velocity change" in the Inspector (values in the range 0 to 127).

Kokotauot

Full measure rest

A whole rest, centred within a measure (shown below), is used to indicate that an entire measure (or a voice within a measure) is silent, regardless of time signature.

To create one or more full measure rests

Use the following method if all selected measures are "standard"—i.e. with no custom durations:

1 Select a measure, or range of measures.
2. Press Del.

If one or more of the measures contains a custom duration, use the following method instead:

1. Select a measure, or range of measures.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Del (Mac: Cmd+Shift+Del).

To create a full measure rest in a particular voice

1. In the appropriate voice, enter a rest that extends for the full measure.
2. Make sure the rest is selected, then press Ctrl+Shift+Del (Mac: Cmd+Shift+Del).

Multimeasure rest

A Multimeasure rest indicates a period of silence for an instrument: the number of measures is shown by the number above the staff.

Multimeasure rests are automatically interrupted at important points, such as double barlines, rehearsal marks, key- or time signature changes, section breaks etc.

To display multimeasure rests

To turn multimeasure rests on or off:

• Press M on your keyboard.

Alternatively:

1. From the menu, choose Style→General...
2. Click on the "Score" tab, if it is not already selected;
3. Tick/untick "Create multi-measure rests."

Note: It is recommended that you enter all notes in the score first before enabling multi-measure rests.

Break multimeasure rest

You may want to have a multi-measure rest divided into two multi-measure rests:

1. Ensure that the option to display multimeasure rests in the score is off (see above).
2. Right-click on the measure where you want the second multi-measure rest to start;
3. From the menu, chose Measure Properties and tick "Break multi-measure rest."

See also: Measure operations: Break multimeasure rest.

Oktaavisiirtomerkinnät

Octave (Ottava) lines are used to indicate that a section of music is to be played one or more octaves above or below written pitch: The line may be dotted or solid. Ottavas are available in the Lines palette of the Basic and Advanced workspaces.

8─────┐or 8va─────┐: Play one octave above written pitch
8─────┘or 8vb─────┘: Play one octave below written pitch

8va/8vb lines are particularly common in piano scores, though they are sometimes used in other instrumental music.¹ 15ma (2 octaves above) and 15mb (2 octaves below) are also occasionally used.

Apply an octave line

Use one of the following:

• Select a range of notes, then double click an octave line from a palette.
• Select one or more measures, then double click an octave line from a palette.
• Click on a note, then double-click an octave line from the palette (extends line from selected note to end of bar).
• Drag an octave line from a palette onto a note (extends line from selected note to end of bar).

See also, Lines: Adjust vertical position.

Change length

See Lines: Change length.

Custom lines

Octaves can be customized just like any other line. See Lines: Custom lines and line properties.

External links

• Octave at Wikipedia

Palkit

Palkit muodostuvat automaattisesti tahtiosoituksen perusteella. Muuttaaksesi oletuspalkitusta, klikkaa hiiren oikealla painikkeella tahtiosoitusta ja valitse "Tahtilajin ominaisuudet". Katso Change default beaming yksityiskohtia varten.

Jos kuitenkin haluat säätää nuotin palkitusta manuaalisesti ja tapauskohtaisesti, käytä palkkisymboleita Nuotin ominaisuudet-paletista "Perus-" tai "Edistyneessä" työtilassa:

Palkkisymbolit

Seuraava on lista palkkisymboleista ja niiden toiminnoista:

• Aloita palkki tästä nuotista (tai tauosta).
• Älä lopeta palkkia tähän nuottiin (tai taukoon).
• Älä palkita tätä nuottia.
• Aloita toisen tason palkki tästä nuotista.
• Aloita kolmannen tason palkki tästä nuotista.
• (takaisin) Automaattinen tila: tila, jonka MuseScore valitsee nuotinsyötössä, riippuvainen nykyisestä tahtiosoituksesta ja sen palkkiasetuksista.
• Aloita (hitaampi) viuhkamainen palkki tästä nuotista.
• Aloita (nopeampi) viuhkamainen palkki tästä nuotista.

Muuta nuotin palkitusta

To change one or more note beams (except feathered beams, below), use either of the following methods:

• Drag and drop a beam symbol from a workspace onto a note in the score.

• Select one or more notes in the score and double click the desired workspace beam symbol.

To apply feathered note beams, use either of the following methods:

• Drag and drop a feathered-beam symbol from a workspace onto a note beam in the score.

• Select one or more note beams in the score, then double click on a feathered-beam symbol in the workspace.

Notes: (1) Feathered beams may use 2 or 3 lines depending on the tempo and the desired rate of the change; (2) To create a 2-line feathered beam, you need to start with a continuous run of beamed sixteenth notes; (3) To create a 3-line feathered beam, you need to start with continuous run of beamed thirty-second notes; (4) Playback of feathered beams is not supported.

Adjust beam with the keyboard/mouse

Adjust beam angle

1. Double-click on a note beam to put it into edit mode—the right end handle is automatically selected.
2. Use the up/down arrows or drag the right end handle to change the angle of the beam.
3. Press Esc to exit edit mode.

Adjust beam height

1. Double-click on a note beam to put it into edit mode—the right end handle is automatically selected.
2. Press Shift+Tab or click the left handle to select it
3. Use the up/down arrows or drag the left end handle to change the height of the beam.
4. Press Esc to exit edit mode.

Adjust beam with the inspector

Alternatively, you can use the Inspector for all of these operations:

Adjust beam angle

1. Click on a note beam.
2. Tick the "User position" box in the "Beam" section of the Inspector.
3. Set the "Position" values to get the desired beam angle.

Adjust beam height

1. Click on a note beam.
2. Tick the "User position" box in the "Beam" section of the Inspector.
3. Set the "Position" values as desired.

Make the beam horizontal

1. Select a note beam
2. Tick the "Horizontal" box in the "Beam" section of the inspector.
3. If desired, adjust the beam height with the keyboard/mouse: see above.

If you want all note beams in the score to be horizontal there is a "Flatten all beams" option in Style→General→Beams.

Adjust feathered beams

To adjust feathered beams:

1. Select a note beam.
2. Adjust the values in the "Grow left" and "Grow right" boxes in the "Beam" section of the Inspector.

Local relayout

MuseScore (following accepted music engraving practice) spaces notes according to their time values, allowing for accidentals, lyrics etc. In systems where there is more than one staff, this may result in irregular note spacing, as in the following example:

Local relayout is a tickbox option in the Inspector allowing you to specify those passages in the score where you want the note spacing to be independent of other staves in the system. Applying "Local relayout" to the note beams in the top staff of the previous example results in a more even distribution of notes:

To do a local relayout:

1. Select one or more note beams.
2. Tick the option Local relayout in the "Beam" section of the Inspector.

Flip note beam

To flip a beam from above to below the notes, or vice-versa:

1. Select one or more note beams.
2. Use any of the following options:
   • Press the X key;
   • Press the "Flip direction" icon in the bottom right of the toolbar area.
   • Select a "Direction" option (Auto, Up or Down) in the "Beam" section of the Inspector.

Reset Beam Mode

To restore beams to the mode defined in the local time signatures:

1. Select the section of the score you want to reset. If nothing is selected, the operation will apply to the whole score;
2. Select Layout→Reset Beam Mode.

See also

• Cross-staff notation
• Edit mode
• Note input

External links

• How to add a beam over a rest
• How to place a beam between notes

Poikkeusjaot

Tuplets are used to write rhythms beyond the beat divisions usually permitted by the time signature. For example, a sixteenth note triplet will divide an eighth note beat into three sixteenth notes instead of two:

In 6/8 time, an eighth note duplet will divide a dotted quarter note into two eighth notes instead of three:

Create a tuplet

The exact method of tuplet entry depends on whether you are starting off in note input mode or "normal mode" (i.e. not in note input mode). We'll start off with a simple example: the creation of an eighth note triplet.

Create a triplet in normal mode

1. Select a note or rest that specifies the full duration of the desired triplet group. In the case of an eighth note triplet, you will need to select a quarter note or rest—as in the example below:

   

2. From the main menu, choose Notes→Tuplets→Triplet, or press Ctrl+3 (Mac: ⌘+3). This will give the following result:

   

3. The program automatically changes to note-input mode and selects the most appropriate duration—in this example an eighth note. Now enter the desired series of notes/rests. For example:

   

Create a triplet in note input mode

1. Ensure you are in note input mode (press N).
2. Navigate to the note/rest (or blank measure) where you want the triplet to start (use the left/right arrow keys as required).
3. Select a final duration for the whole triplet group. In the case of an eighth note triplet, click on the quarter note in the note input toolbar (or press 5 on the keyboard).
4. From the main menu, choose Notes→Tuplets→Triplet, or press Ctrl+3 (Mac: ⌘+3). This creates a triplet number/bracket and appropriately divides the original note/rest (see image above).
5. The program automatically selects the most appropriate duration—in this example an eighth note—allowing you to immediately start entering the desired series of notes/rests.

Create other tuplets

Most other tuplets can be entered similarly, by substituting the general create tuplet command – Ctrl+2–9 (Mac users Cmd+2–9) – in the above series of steps: this will create tuplets ranging from a duplet (2) to a nonuplet (9). For more complex cases, see below.

Custom tuplets

To create other tuplets than the default options (e.g., 13 sixteenth notes in the space of one quarter note):

1. Enter/select a note or rest equaling the total duration of the tuplet.
2. Open the Create Tuplet dialog from the menu: Notes→Tuplets→Other...

3. Select the desired number ratio (e.g. 13/4 for thirteen sixteenth notes in the space of a quarter note) under "Relation" in the "Type" section. Specify "Number" and "Bracket" using the radio buttons in the "Format" section.

   

4. Click OK to close the dialog.

   

Delete a tuplet

To delete any tuplet, select the number/bracket and press Del.

Settings

To customize the appearance of a single tuplet, you can change its properties in the Inspector. You can also change the general style for all tuplets in a score.

Inspector

To change the display properties of a tuplet, select the tuplet number, or bracket, and use the Inspector.

If neither the number nor the bracket is shown, select a note from the tuplet, then use the Tuplet button in the Inspector to see the above dialog.

For Direction, choose Auto to place the bracket on the same side of the note heads as the stem, or beam. Choose Up, or Down to explicitly place the bracket above or below the note heads, respectively, regardless of the stem, or beam position.

For Number type, choose Number to show an integer, Relation to show a ratio of two integers, or Nothing to show no number at all.

For Bracket type, choose Automatic to hide the bracket for beamed notes and show the bracket if the tuplet includes unbeamed notes or rests. Choose Bracket, or Nothing to explicitly show, or hide the bracket, respectively.

Style

Go to Style → General... and select Tuplets. It enables you to change all tuplet properties.

Two adjustments are possible: Vertical and Horizontal

• Vertical adjustment has three options with values in space units and one (un)ticked option
  • Maximum slope: default value is 0.50; range is from 0.10 to 1.00
  • Vertical distance from stem (see (2) below): default value is 0.25; range is from -5.00 to 5.00
  • Vertical distance from note head (see (3) below): default value is 0.50; range is from -5.00 to 5.00
  • Avoid the staves: by default ticked
• Horizontal has four options with values in space units
  • Distance before the stem of the first note (see (5) below): default value is 0.50; range is from -5.00 to 5.00
  • Distance before the head of the first note: default value is 0.00; range is from -5.00 to 5.00
  • Distance after the stem of the last note (see (6) below): default value is 0.50; range is from -5.00 to 5.00
  • Distance after the head of the last note: default value is 0.00; range is from -5.00 to 5.00

External links

• How to create triplets and other tuplets
• Tuplet at Wikipedia
• The User Guide to Tuplets in MuseScore [video]

Sidekaaret

A slur is a curved line between two or more notes indicating that they are to be played legato—smoothly and without separation. Not to be confused with Ties, which join two notes of the same pitch.

There are a number of ways to add a slur to a score, and all may be useful depending on the context (adding a slur from the lines palette is also possible but not recommended).

Add slur in note-input mode

1. While in note input mode, type in the first note in the slurred section;
2. Press S to begin the slurred section;
3. Type in the remaining notes in the slurred section;
4. Press S again to end the slurred section.

Add slur outside note-input mode

Method 1

1. Make sure you are not in note input mode and select the first note that you want the slur to cover:

   

2. Press S to add a slur extending to the next note:

   

3. (Optional) Hold Shift and press → (right arrow key) to extend the slur to the next note. Repeat as required:

   

4. (Optional) Press X to flip the slur direction:

   

5. Press Esc to exit edit mode:

   

Method 2

1. Make sure you are not in note input mode;
2. Select the note where you want the slur to start;
3. Chose one of the following options:
   • To add a slur to one voice only: Hold down Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) and select the last note that you want the slur to cover.
   • To add slurs to all voices: Hold down Shift (⌘ on a Mac) and select the last note that you want the slurs to cover.
4. Press S.

Adjust slur

If you only want to adjust the position of a slur:

1. Select the slur;
2. Use any of the following methods:
   • Drag the slur.
   • Adjust the horizontal and vertical offset values in the Inspector.

To adjust all the properties of a slur (length, shape and position):

1. Make sure you are not in note input mode;
2. Double-click the slur to enter edit mode (or select it and press Ctrl+E; or right-click it and select "Edit Element");
3. Click on a handle to select it, or use Tab to cycle through the handles;
4. To move the left and right handles from note to note, use the following shortcuts:
   • Shift+→: Move to next note.
   • Shift+←: Move to previous note.
   • Shift+↑: Move to lower voice (voice 2 to voice 1 etc.).
   • Shift+↓: Move to higher voice (voice 1 to voice 2 etc.).
5. To adjust the position of any handle, use any of the following methods:
   • Drag the handle.
   • Use the arrow keys for fine adjustment (0.1 sp. at a time). For larger adjustments (1 sp. at a time) use Ctrl+Arrow.
6. Press Esc to exit edit mode.

Note: The two outer handles adjust the start and end of the slur, whilst the three handles on the curve adjust the contour. The middle handle on the straight line is used to move the whole slur up/down/left/right.

Extended slurs

A slur can span several systems and pages. The start and end of a slur is anchored to a note/chord or rest. If the notes are repositioned due to changes in the layout, stretch or style, the slur also moves and adjusts in size.

This example shows a slur spanning from the bass to the treble clef. Using the mouse, select the first note of the slur, hold down Ctrl (Mac: ⌘) and select the last note for the slur, and press S to add the slur.

X flips the direction of a selected slur.

Dotted slurs

Dotted slurs are sometimes used in songs where the presence of a slur varies between stanzas. Dotted slurs are also used to indicate an editor's suggestion (as opposed to the composer's original markings). To change an existing slur into a dotted or dashed slur, select it and then in Inspector (F8) change Line type from Continuous to Dotted or Dashed.

See also

• Tie
• Edit mode
• Note input

Sidokset

A tie is a curved line between two notes of the same pitch, indicating that they are to be played as one note with a combined duration (see external links below). Ties are normally created between adjacent notes in the same voice, but MuseScore also supports ties between non-adjacent notes and between notes in different voices.

In note-input mode, if you specify a tie immediately after entering a note or chord, the program automatically generates the correct destination notes to go with the ties. Or, you can simply create ties "after the fact," between existing notes.

Note: Ties, which join notes of the same pitch, should not be confused with slurs, which join notes of different pitches and indicate legato articulation.

Tie notes together

1. Press Esc to make sure you are not in note input mode.

2. Click on a note, or use Ctrl (Mac: Cmd) + click to select more than one note.

   

3. Press + or the tie button, .

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Ties will be created between the selected note(s) and the following note(s) of the same pitch.

Tie chords together

To tie all the notes in a chord at once, either:

• Click on the stem of the chord, or
• Hold down Shift and click on any note in the chord.

Then press + or the tie button . Ties will be created between all the notes in the selected chord and the following notes of the same pitches.

Add tied notes in note input mode

To create a single note tie during note input:

1. Select a single note (one that is not part of a chord).
2. Select a new note duration for the following note, if required (but see "Note" below).
3. Press + or the tie button, .

Note: This shortcut works, as described above, only if there is no chord following the selected note. If there is, then the duration is ignored and the tied note is added instead to the following chord.

Add a tied chord in note input mode

1. Make sure one note is selected in a chord.
2. Select a new note duration for the following chord, if required (but see "Note" below).
3. Press + or the tie button, .

Note: This shortcut works, as described above, only if there is no chord following the selected note. If there is, then the duration is ignored and the tied notes are added instead to the following chord.

Tied unison notes

If the chords to be tied contain unison notes the best way to ensure correct notation is:

1. Assign each note of a unison pair to a separate voice.
2. Ensure that one of the unison pairs is set to "stemless" (to remove the duplicate stem and tail).
3. Apply the ties voice by voice. Make adjustments for position, length as required.

Flip a tie

X flips the direction of a selected tie, from above the note to below the note, or vice-versa.

See also

Slur

External links

• How to create ties leading into a 2nd ending
• Ties (music) at Wikipedia

Sulkeet

MuseScore provides standard brackets and a curly brace within the Brackets palette in the advanced workspace.

Add

To add a bracket or brace to systems, use one of two methods:

• Drag a bracket symbol from a palette on to an empty space in the first measure of the staff where you want the bracket to start.
• Select the first measure of the staff where you want the bracket to start and double-click a bracket symbol in a palette.

Delete

• Select the bracket and press Del.

Change

• Drag a bracket symbol from a palette onto an existing bracket in the score.

Edit

When you first apply a bracket it only spans one staff. To extend to other staves:

1. Enter Edit mode.
2. Drag the handle downwards to span the required staves. The handle snaps into position, so exact placement is not required.

Style

The default thickness and distance from the system of brackets and braces can be adjusted in Style → General... → System.

Tremolo

Tremolo is the rapid repetition of one note, or a rapid alternation between two notes or chords. It is indicated by strokes through the stems of the notes or chords. If the tremolo is between two, the bars are drawn between them. Tremolo symbols are also used to notate drum rolls.

The tremolo palette in the advanced workspace contains separate symbols for one note tremolos (shown with stems below) and for two note tremolos (shown with no stem below).

To add tremolo to a single note, select the note head and double-click the desired symbol in the tremolo palette.

In a two note tremolo, every note has the value of the whole tremolo duration. To enter a tremolo with the duration of a half note (minim), enter two normal quarter notes (crotchets), and after applying a tremolo symbol to the first note, the note values automatically double to half notes.

Viivat

The Lines palette of the Advanced workspace includes the following types of lines:

• Slur
• Hairpins (crescendo and diminuendo)
• Volta brackets (1st, 2nd, 3rd time endings etc.)
• Octave lines (8va, 8vb, 15ma etc)
• Keyboard pedal markings
• Extended ornament lines (Trills etc)
• Guitar barre line
• Straight line
• Ambitus (early music symbol)

Applying lines to the score

Most lines (except Sidekaaret, Volta brackets and the Ambitus) can be applied from a palette in the following ways:

To apply a line to just one note

1. Click on a note, then Ctrl+Click on the next note;
2. Double-click a line.

To apply a line across a range of notes

1. Select a range of notes;
2. Double-click a line.

To apply a line from a note to the end of that measure

Use any of the following methods:

• Click on a note, then double click a line.
• Drag and drop a line onto the score.

To apply a line across a range of measures

1. Select one or more measures;
2. Double click a line.

Adjust vertical position

To adjust the vertical position of one or more lines:

1. Ensure you are not in note-input or edit mode.
2. Use either of the following:
   • Click on one or more lines and change the vertical offset in the Inspector;
   • Click on a line, press and hold Shift and drag it up/down with a mouse.

Note: You can also adjust the vertical position in Edit mode.

Change length

1. Ensure you are not in note input mode (press Esc to exit);

2. Double click the line that you want to change to enter edit mode;

3. Click on an end handle and use one of the following shortcuts:

   • Shift+→ to move the end handle, and its anchor, right by one note (or, in the case of Voltas, one measure)
   • Shift+← to move the end handle, and its anchor, left by one note (or, in the case of Voltas, one measure);

4. To change the position of an end handle without changing the position of its anchor, use the following:

   • → to move the handle right by 0.1 sp (1 sp = one staff space = the distance between two staff lines).
   • ← to move the handle left 0.1 sp.
   • Ctrl+→ (Mac: Cmd+→) to move the handle right one sp.
   • Ctrl+← (Mac: Cmd+→) to move the handle left one sp.

   Note: You can also drag the endpoint handles with a mouse.

Custom lines and line properties

Lines may contain features such as embedded text or hooks at the ends (e.g. ottavas and voltas). They can be customized once they have been added to the score, and the results saved to a workspace for future use:

1. Right-click on a line and select Line Properties…;

2. Add any text you want to appear in the line;

   • Begin: Text added here appears at the beginning of the line.
   • Continue: Text added here appears at the beginning of a continuation line.
   • End: Text added here appears at the end of the line.

   Click on the ... buttons to adjust the Text properties at each position as required.

3. If a hook is required, tick the appropriate "Hook" box, and adjust the hook length and angle;

4. Select an option from "Place": "Above or "Below" positions the text so that it overlaps the line; "Left" places the text to the left of the line;

   Note: Additional placement options are available in the "Text properties" dialog (see step 2, above).

5. Click OK to exit Line Properties;

6. Make adjustments to Color, Thickness and Line type (solid, dashed etc.) in the "Line" section of the Inspector. Ticking "Diagonal" here allows you to create a diagonal line by dragging the end handles;

7. If you wish to save the resulting line for future use, see Custom palettes.

Copying lines

Once applied to the score, lines cannot be copied using the usual copy and paste procedures. However, you can duplicate lines within a score: press and hold Ctrl+Shift (Mac: Cmd+Shift), click on the line and drag it to the desired location.

Extended ornament lines

To add an accidental to an extended ornament, such as a trill line, select the line and double-click a symbol from the Accidentals palette.

External links

• Piano pedal marks at Wikipedia
• Guitar Barre at Wikipedia

Kertaukset ja hypyt

Simple repeats

You can create a simple repeat by placing a start and an end repeat barline at the beginning and end of a passage. These barlines are applied from the Barlines palette, and, as of version 2.1, also from the Repeats & Jumps palette.

Note: If the start of a repeat coincides with the beginning of a piece or section, the start repeat barline can be omitted if desired. Similarly, an end repeat barline can be omitted at the end of a score or section.

1st and 2nd endings

First create a simple repeat (as shown above), then apply the first and second time endings—see Voltas.

Playback

To hear repeats during playback, make sure the "Play Repeats"
button on the toolbar is selected. Likewise, you can turn off repeats during playback by deselecting the button.

To set the number of times that a repeat section plays back:

1. Make sure the start and end repeat barlines are in place (e.g. Simple repeats above).
2. Right-click on the last measure before the end repeat barline and select Measure properties.
3. Adjust "Play count" ("Repeat count" prior to version 2.1) as required.

Repeat symbols and text

Text and symbols related to repeats are located in the "Repeats & Jumps" palette (in the Basic and Advanced workspaces). This palette contains:

• Symbols for measure repeat, Segno, Coda, and, as of version 2.1, repeat barlines
• D.S., D.C., To Coda, and Fine text

To add a repeat symbol to the score use either of the following:

• Drag and drop a repeat symbol from the palette onto (not above!) the desired measure (so the measure changes color).
• Select a measure, then double-click the desired repeat symbol in the palette.

Jumps

Jumps are symbols in the score which tell the musician, and playback, to skip to a named marker (see below). Jumps include the various kinds of D.C. (Da Capo) and D.S. (Dal Segno) text.

If you click on a jump, three tags are displayed in the "Jump" section of the Inspector, namely:

• Jump to: Skip to a marker whose "Label" is the same as the "Jump to" tag.
• Play until: Continue playing until you reach another marker whose "Label" is the same as the "Play until" tag.
• Continue: Skip to the next marker whose "Label" is the same as the "Continue" tag

Each marker has a different tag associated with it, and this can be viewed by clicking on the symbol and reading the "Label" in the "Marker" section of the Inspector.

Note: The tags start and end, referring to the beginning and end of a score or section, are implicit and don't need to be added by the user.

Simple Repeats are not taken after jumps and playback works as if it were the last repeat.

Markers

Markers are the places referred to by the jumps, in addition to the implicit 'start' and 'end' there are:

• Segno (tag: segno)
• Segno Variation (tag: varsegno)
• Coda (tag: codab)
• Coda Variation (tag: varcoda)
• Fine (tag: fine)
• To Coda (tag: coda)

Examples

At the jump instruction Da Capo the playback jumps to the start (to the implicit start tag) and plays the entire score or section again (up to the implicit end tag).

At the jump instruction Da Capo al Fine the playback jumps to the start (to the implicit start tag) and plays the score up to the Fine (the fine tag).

Dal Segno al Fine (or D.S. al Fine) jumps to the Segno symbol (the segno tag) and then plays up to the Fine (the fine tag)

Dal Segno al Coda (or D.S. al Coda) jumps to the Segno symbol (the segno tag) and then plays up to the To Coda (the coda tag). Playback then continues at Coda symbol (the codab tag).

The properties (i.e. the tag names) of jumps and markers can be set via the Inspector. You need to modify them if using multiple jumps and markers.

See also

• Barlines
• Volta

External links

• MuseScore in Minutes: Repeats and Endings, part 2 (video tutorial)
• How to separate a coda from the rest of the score (MuseScore HowTo)

Maalit

Volta brackets, or first and second ending brackets, are used to mark different endings for a repeat.

To add a volta to the score

Use one of the following methods:

• Select a measure, or range of measures and double-click a Volta icon in the Lines palette.
• Drag-and-drop a volta from the Lines palette, then adjust the length as required (see below).

To change the number of measures that a volta covers

1. Double-click the volta to enter edit mode. The end handle is automatically selected.
2. Press Shift+→ to move the end handle forward one measure. Press Shift+← to move the handle backward one measure. Repeat as required.

Note: Only the Shift commands will alter the playback start and end points of the volta. To make fine adjustments to the visual start or end points you can use other keyboard arrow commands, or drag the handles with a mouse, but these do not affect the playback properties.

When you select a start or end handle, a dashed line appears connecting it to an anchor point on the staff. This anchor shows the position of the playback start or end point of the Volta.

Text

You can change the text and many other properties of a volta bracket using the line properties dialog. Right-click on a volta bracket and choose Line Properties.... The figure below shows the volta text as "1.-5."

You can also right-click on the volta and bring up the volta properties dialog. From here, you can change both the displayed Volta text (the same from the line properties above) and the repeat list. If you want one volta to be played only on certain repeats and another volta on other repeats, enter the repeat times in a comma separated list. In the example below, this volta will be played during repeat 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7. Another volta will have the other ending, like 3, 6 and possibly other higher numbers like 8, 9, etc.

Playback

Sometimes a repeat plays more than two times. In the figure above, the volta text indicates that it should play five times before it continues. If you want to change the number of times MuseScore plays a repeat, go to the measure containing the end repeat barline and change its Play count (Repeat Count prior to version 2.1). See Measure operations: Other properties for details.

External links

• MuseScore in Minutes, Lesson 8: Repeats and Endings, Part 1
• How to create ties leading into a 2nd ending

Transponointi

Transposition is the act of raising or lowering the pitch of a selection of notes by the same interval. You can chose to transpose notes either manually or by using the Transpose dialog.

Manual transposition

1. Select the notes that you wish to transpose;
2. Use any of the following options:
   • To transpose chromatically: Press ↑ or ↓. Repeat as required;
   • To transpose diatonically; Press Alt + Shift + ↑ or ↓. Repeat as required;
   • To transpose by an octave: Press Ctrl + ↑ or ↓ (Mac: Cmd + ↑ or ↓).

Note: In versions prior to 2.1, F2 (Mac: fn+F2) transposes the whole score and key signature UP one semitone. Shift+F2 (Mac: Shift+fn +F2) transposes the score and key signature DOWN one semitone.

Automatic transposition

MuseScore's Transpose dialog gives you more options for transposing notes.

Note: By default this dialog opens from the Notes menu, but you can also chose to open it using a keyboard shortcut (see Preferences).

Transpose Chromatically

By Key

To transpose notes up or down to the nearest key:

1. Select the notes you want to transpose; no selection equals "select all.";
2. From the menu bar, choose Notes → Transpose...;
3. Tick "Transpose Chromatically" and "By key;"
4. Tick/untick "Transpose key signature" and "Transpose chord symbols" if required;
5. Tick one of "Closest," "Up" or "Down;" and select a destination key signature from the drop-down menu;
6. Click OK.

By Interval

To transpose selected notes up or down in semitone increments:

1. Select the notes you want to transpose; no selection equals "select all.";
2. From the menu bar, choose Notes → Transpose...;
3. Tick "Transpose Chromatically" and "By Interval;"
4. Tick/untick "Transpose key signature" and "Transpose chord symbols" if required;
5. Tick "Up" or "Down;" and select a transposition interval from the drop-down menu;
6. Click OK.

Transpose Diatonically

To transpose selected notes up or down by a diatonic interval:

1. Select the notes you want to transpose; no selection equals "select all.";
2. From the menu bar, choose Notes → Transpose...;
3. Tick "Transpose Diatonically;"
4. Tick/untick "Transpose key signature" and "Transpose chord symbols" if required;
5. Tick "Up" or "Down;" and select a transposition interval from the drop-down menu;
6. Click OK.

Transposing instruments

Transposing instruments, such as the B-flat trumpet or E-flat alto sax, sound lower, or higher than their written pitch. MuseScore has a number of features to facilitate the scoring of these instruments.

Concert pitch

MuseScore's default viewing mode shows the musical notation in written pitch, but you can chose to display the score in concert pitch instead. In the latter mode, the musical notation of all instruments matches the actual pitches that you hear on playback.

To switch to concert pitch, use one of the following options:

• Press the Concert Pitch button to highlight it.
• From the menu bar, select Notes and tick the Concert Pitch option.

You should ensure that the Concert pitch button is OFF before printing the main score or any parts.

Change staff transposition

Instrument transpositions are already set up in MuseScore. However, if you want a rare instrument or transposition that is not available in MuseScore, you may need to edit the instrument transposition manually.

1. Right-click an empty part of the instrument staff and select Staff Properties....
2. At the bottom of the window, select the interval of transposition, any octave shifts, and whether the interval is "Up" (sounds higher than written) or "Down" (sounds lower than written).

You can also use the Change Instrument… button in the Staff Properties window to automatically change the transposition to that of a different standard instrument.

External links

• How to transpose (MuseScore How-To)
• Concert pitch or not?? (forum discussion)

Rumpunotaatio

Entering percussion notation is somewhat different to entering notation for pitched instruments (such as the piano or violin). However, it is recommended that you first read the chapter on Note input for pitched instruments before proceeding.

Percussion staff types

When you create a percussion staff using the New Score Wizard or the Instruments dialog, MuseScore automatically choses the most appropriate staff type (1-, 3-, or 5-line) for the instrument: this can be changed, if required, using the "Staff type" column on the Chose instruments / Instruments page. Any additional changes (e.g. to a 2-line staff) can be made from the score itself (see Advanced Style Properties).

On a 5-line percussion staff, each instrument is assigned a vertical staff position (line or space) and a notehead shape. For a drumset, one or two voices can be used. If the latter, voice 1 (the upper voice) usually contains (up-stem) notes played by the hands while voice 2 (the lower voice) usually contains (down-stem) notes played by the feet (see image below).

Note input methods

You can add notes to a percussion staff from any of the following:

• External MIDI keyboard;
• Piano keyboard (virtual);
• Computer keyboard;
• Mouse.

These methods can be used in any desired combination:

MIDI keyboard

To add notes to a percussion staff from a MIDI keyboard:

1. Ensure that the MIDI keyboard is connected and functioning correctly.

   Note: If you click on the percussion staff without entering note input node, you can demo the percussion instruments from the MIDI keyboard.

2. Click on the note or rest where you want to start.

3. Enter note input mode.
4. Select the correct voice. For example, snares, sidesticks and all cymbals are normally added to voice 1; bass drum to voice 2.
5. Set note duration.
6. Press an instrument key to add a note to the score. To add another note at the same position, keep the first key held down while pressing the second key.

Note: Refer to a GM2 drum map for details about which MIDI keyboard key corresponds to which percussion instrument. Some keyboards (e.g., Casio) display percussion symbols next to the keys as an aid to the user.

Piano keyboard

To add notes to a percussion staff from the virtual Piano Keyboard:

1. Ensure that the Piano keyboard is displayed. Press P (or select it from the menu, View → Piano Keyboard).

   Note: If you click on the percussion staff without entering note input node, you can demo the percussion instruments from the Piano keyboard.

2. Click on the note or rest where you want to start.

3. Enter note input mode.
4. Select the correct voice. For example, snares, sidesticks and all cymbals are normally added to voice 1; bass drum to voice 2.
5. Set note duration.
6. Click on a (virtual piano) key to add a note to the score.
7. To add another note to an existing one, press Shift and hold it while pressing the new note (in versions before 2.1, use Ctrl (Mac: Cmd)).

Note: Refer to a GM2 drum map for details about which piano key corresponds to which percussion instrument.

By default, the piano keyboard is docked at the bottom of the screen—to the left of the Drum input palette. However you can undock it by dragging, then dock the panel in several ways:

• Drag the panel downwards to the center and it will overlay the Drum input palette, full length. Both panels can then be accessed by Tabs.
• Drag the panel downwards to the right/left and it will dock to the right/left of the Drum input palette.

Computer keyboard

To enter notes on a percussion staff using your computer keyboard:

1. Click on the note or rest where you want to start.
2. Enter note input mode. The Drum input palette now appears at the bottom of the screen (see below).
3. Select the desired note duration.
4. Press the shortcut key (A–G) for the instrument that you wish to enter—refer to the Drum input palette window.
5. If you wish to add another note to an existing one in that voice, press Shift + [A–G].

Note: Voice allocation is determined by the color of the note in the drum input palette: blue for voice 1, green for voice 2.

Mouse

To add a note to a percussion staff

Use the following method to add a new note or to replace an existing chord.

1. Select the note or rest where you want to start. You can also select a measure.
2. Press N to to enter note input mode. The Drum input palette now appears at the bottom of the screen (see below).
3. Set note duration.
4. Chose one of the following options:
   • Double-click a note in the Drum input palette.
   • Select a note (e.g. Bass drum, or Snare) in the Drum input palette, then click a note or rest in the score.

To add a note to an existing chord in the percussion staff

1. Ensure you are in note input mode.
2. Select a note duration equal to the note you are adding to.
3. Click on the new note in the Drum input palette.
4. Click above or below the existing note in the percussion staff.

Note: Voice allocation is determined by the color of the note in the drum input palette: blue for voice 1, green for voice 2.

Drum input palette

When a percussion staff is selected and note input mode is ON, a window opens at the bottom of the screen called the Drum input palette. This window is essential for mouse input, and displays shortcuts for computer keyboard input, but can be ignored if using a MIDI keyboard or the virtual Piano Keyboard.

Each note in the palette represents a percussion instrument: hovering the mouse pointer over the note displays the instrument name.

The letters A–G (shown above certain notes in the palette) are designated as shortcuts for entering particular instruments (bass drum, snare, closed hi-hat etc.), rather than referring to note pitches. They can be changed or reallocated as desired in the Edit Drumset window.

When the Drum input palette is open, double-clicking a note in the palette or entering a shortcut letter will add that instrument note to the percussion staff. The color of the note in the palette shows the voice allocated for that note—blue for voice 1, green for voice 2. This can be changed in the Edit Drumset dialog if required.

This voice allocation applies only to keyboard and mouse entry of notes: entry via a MIDI keyboard or the virtual Piano keyboard allows any voice to be used.

Edit Drumset

Clicking on Edit Drumset at the left of the Drum input palette, opens the Edit Drumset dialog. Alternatively, right click on a percussion staff and chose "Edit Drumset."

The Edit Drumset dialog displays the percussion instruments available and the MIDI notes/numbers to which they are allocated. It also determines how each instrument is displayed on the staff— its name, position, notehead type and note-stem direction. Any changes made here are automatically saved in the parent MuseScore file.

Clicking on a row in the left-hand column allows you to edit the display properties for that note as follows:

Name: The name you want displayed in the Drum input palette when you mouse over the note.
Notehead: Chose a notehead for that instrument from a drop-down list of options (if set to "Invalid," the instrument will not display in the Drum input palette).
Staff line: This number indicates the staff line/space on which the note is displayed. "0" means that the note is displayed on the top line of the 5-line staff. Negative numbers move the note upwards step by step, while positive numbers move it downwards in the same way.
Stem Direction: Auto, Up or down.
Default voice: Assign to one of four voices. This does not affect input from a MIDI keyboard or the virtual Piano keyboard.
Shortcut: Assign a keyboard shortcut to enter that note.

The customized drumset can be saved as a .drm file by pressing Save. You can also import a customized drumset using the Load button.

Note: In MuseScore 2.1, some of the pitches in the Tenor Drums instrument do not play back; there is a DRM file designed to fix this, which you can download here, via right-click→ Save target as.

Roll

To create a drum roll, use Tremolo.

External links

• How to create jazz drum notation [MuseScore How-To]
• Video tutorial: MuseScore in Minutes: Lesson 7 - Tablature and Drum Notation
• Drum Parts [video]
• Editing the Drum Palette in MuseScore 1.1 [video]
• Saving Drumset Changes in MuseScore 1.1 [video]
• Guide to Drum and Percussion Notation

Tabulatuuri

Music for fretted, stringed instruments is commonly notated using tablature, also known as tab, which provides a visual representation of the strings and fret numbers:

Tablature can also be combined with traditional staff notation:

Create a new tablature staff

If you wish to create tablature as part of a new score, use the New Score Wizard. If you want to add tablature to an existing score, use the Instruments dialog. Or, alternatively, you can convert an existing standard staff. See below for details.

With the New Score wizard

To create tablature in a new score (for combined staff/tablature systems see → below):

1. Open the New Score wizard.
2. Enter the score details (optional). Click Next.
3. On the Chose template file page, click on Choose Instruments.

4. On the Instruments page, select one (or more) tablature options under "Plucked strings" in the left-hand column (see image below). Then click Add.

   

   Note: You can use the dropdown list above the Instrument list to change the category displayed. Alternately you can search for the instrument using the "Search" field below the Instrument list.

5. Complete the rest of the New Score Wizard.

If the desired tablature is not available in the Choose Instrument list:

1. At step "4" (above), select an existing "Plucked strings" tablature staff.
2. Press Add to move it to the right-hand column.
3. Check the drop-down menu to the right of the newly-added instrument for the most suitable Tab option, if any.
4. Complete the rest of the New Score wizard and exit.
5. Modify the number of strings and tuning of the tablature, if needed, in the Staff properties window (see → below).
6. Change the Instrument name in Staff Properties, if required.

This allows you to create tablature for any chromatically-fretted instrument.

With the Instruments dialog

To add a single tablature staff to an existing score (for combined staff/tab system see → below):

1. Open the instruments dialog (press I; or from the menu bar, select Edit → Instruments…).
2. Add the tab staff as described in Add instruments ("Create a new score").

By changing staff type

To convert an existing standard staff to tablature, or tablature to a standard staff:

1. Right click on the staff and select Staff Properties…. If "Instrument" is already set to a plucked-strings type, then exit staff properties and go to step 4.
2. If "Instrument" is not a plucked-strings type, click on Change instrument and select an appropriate instrument from "Plucked strings."
3. Click on OK twice to exit staff properties.
4. Open the instruments dialog (press I, or from the menu bar select Edit → Instruments…).
5. Click on the staff in the right-hand column and change the "Staff type" to the desired option.
6. Click OK to exit the Instrument editor and return to the score page.

Note: If you subsequently need to make further adjustments to the staff (e.g. tuning, number of lines/strings etc.), right click on the staff and select Staff Properties….

Alternative method (using just the "Staff Properties" dialog):

1. Right click on the staff and select Staff Properties….
2. If the Instrument displayed is in the "Plucked strings" category, go to step 4.
3. If the Instrument displayed is not in the "Plucked strings" category, click Change instrument and select an appropriate instrument from "Plucked strings". Click on OK.
4. Click Advanced Style Properties..., change "Template" to the desired option and press < Reset to Template.
5. Click OK twice to close the Staff Properties dialog box..

Note: Other adjustments to the staff (e.g. tuning, number of lines/strings etc.), can also be made in the Staff Properties… dialog.

Edit string data

Change tuning

Note: If you only want to view (rather than change) the instrument tuning, follow steps 1 and 2 only.

1. Right-click on the staff and select Staff Properties….

   

2. Press the Edit String Data… button at the bottom of the dialog box. The String Data dialog opens:

   

3. Click on a string pitch and select Edit String…. Or, alternatively, just double-click the string pitch.

4. Select a new pitch in the Note Selection box and click OK. Or, alternatively, just double-click the new pitch.
5. Click OK to close the "String Data" dialog box. Then click OK to close the "Staff/Part Edit Properties" dialog box.

Notes: (1) If tuning is changed when the tablature for that instrument already contains some notes, fret marks will be adjusted automatically (if possible); (2) Any change of tuning to a particular instrument applies only to the score at hand, and does not change any program default settings.

Add a string

1. Right-click on the staff, select Staff Properties…, then press Edit String Data.
2. Click on a string pitch and select New String....
3. Select the new pitch and press OK—or, alternatively, just double-click the new pitch. The new string is inserted below the selected string.

Note: After adding a tablature string you will need to adjust the number of lines in the Staff properties dialog.

Delete a string

1. Right-click on the staff, select Staff Properties…, then press Edit String Data.
2. Click on a string pitch and select Delete String.

Note: After deleting a tablature string you will need to adjust the number of lines in the Staff properties dialog.

Mark string "open"

This feature is used to designate unfretted strings—as in the Lute:

1. Right-click on the staff, select Staff Properties…, then press Edit String Data.
2. Check one or more boxes in the "Open" column.

Change number of instrument frets

This property defines the maximum fret number which can be entered on a tablature staff.

1. Right-click on the staff, select Staff Properties…, then press Edit String Data.
2. Select or enter a new number in the "Number of frets" spin box.

Change tablature display

You can customize both the appearance of a tablature staff and the way that it displays the fret marks. To access these options:

1. Right click on the staff and select Staff Properties….
2. Click on the Advanced Style Properties… button.

Combine pitched staff with tablature

Plucked-string instruments—such as the guitar—are commonly notated using both a music staff and tablature (TAB) together. MuseScore gives you the option of having the two staves either unlinked or linked:

1. Unlinked Staves: You can enter, delete or edit notation in one staff without affecting the other. To transfer music notation from one staff to the other, select the desired range and copy and paste it into the other staff.

2. Linked Staves: Any changes you make in one staff are automatically applied to the other staff as well ("mutual translation").

Note: Occasionally, you may find numbers marked red in the tablature. This means that a fret mark cannot be displayed because it clashes with an existing one. You can resolve this by moving and adjusting existing fret numbers (see Editing existing notes). However, a fret mark clash on the lowest line does not require any adjustment—this is "by design" and the red mark will not appear on any printed copy.

Create a staff/tablature pair with the New Score wizard

1. Open the New Score wizard.
2. Enter the score details (optional). Click Next.
3. On the Chose template file page, click on Choose Instruments.
4. Select a pitched staff in the "Plucked strings" section of the left-hand column. Then click Add.
5. Select the newly-created staff line (i.e. marked "Staff …") in the right-hand column and chose one of two options:
   • Click Add Staff to create an unlinked staff/tab pair.
   • Click Add Linked Staff to create a linked staff/tab pair.
6. In the Staff type column, click on the dropdown list for the newly-created staff and select a tablature option (this can be modified later, if required, on the score page—see Staff Properties).
7. Complete the rest of the New Score Wizard, or click Finish.

Note: To create unlinked staves with separate mixer channels, instead of step "5" (above), select a Tablature staff in the left-hand column and click Add. Then continue with steps 6 and 7.

Create a staff/tablature pair in an existing score

1. Open the Instruments editor (press I, or from the menu bar, select Edit → Instruments…).
2. Select a pitched staff in the "Plucked strings" section of the left-hand column. Then click Add.
3. Select the newly-created staff line (i.e. marked "Staff …") in the right-hand column and chose one of two options:
   • Click Add Staff to create an unlinked staff/tab pair.
   • Click Add Linked Staff to create a linked staff/tab pair.
4. In the Staff type column, click on the dropdown list for the newly-created staff and select a tablature option (this can be modified later, if required, on the score page—see Staff Properties).
5. Change the staff order using the ↑ button if needed.
6. Click OK to return to the score.

Note: To create unlinked staves with separate mixer channels, instead of step "3" (above), select a Tablature staff in the left-hand column and click Add. Then continue with steps 4–6.

Create a staff/tablature pair from an existing staff

To add tablature to a plucked-string staff in the score (or vice versa):

1. Open the Instruments editor (press I, or from the menu bar, select Edit → Instruments…).
2. Select the staff line (marked "Staff 1") in the right-hand column that you want to add to.
3. Chose one of two options:
   • Click Add Staff to create an unlinked staff/tab pair
   • Click Add Linked Staff to create a linked staff/tab pair
4. In the Staff type column, click on the dropdown list for the newly-created staff and select an option (this can be modified later, if required, on the score page—see Staff Properties).
5. Change the staff order using the ↑ button if needed.
6. Click OK.

Notes: To create unlinked staves with separate mixer channels, instead of step "3" (above), select an appropriate staff in the left-hand column and click Add. Then continue with steps 4–6.

Enter notes in tablature

Using a computer keyboard

• First, ensure that you are not in note-input mode. Select the measure or existing note from which you want to begin note entry.
• Switch to note input mode (N): a short 'blue rectangle' appears around one tablature string: this is the current string.
• Select the duration of the note or rest that you wish to enter (see below).
• Press the up/down arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired string. Use the left/right arrow keys to navigate through the score.

• Press 0 to 9 to enter a fret mark from 0 to 9 on the current string; to enter numbers with several digits press each digit in sequence. Keys A to K (skipping I) can also be used: convenient when working in French tablature. For L , M, N, use the alphanumeric keyboard and type respectively 10, 11, 12...

  Note: You cannot enter a number higher than the "Number of frets" value set in the Edit String Data dialog.

• Press ; (semicolon) to enter a rest of the selected duration.

• You can enter notes in different voices if required—just as you would in a standard staff.

See also, Edit notes (below).

Historical tablature

As of version 2.1, period notation for bass strings (lutes and sim.) is supported:

• French tablature: letters with prefixed slash-like strokes right under the tab body: i.e. 7th string: "a", 8th string: "/a", 9th string: "//a" and so on, all in the first position below the tab body.

• Italian tablature: numbers with 'ledger line'- like segment of string above the tab body: i.e. 7th string: "0" one position above the tab body with one 'ledger line'; 8th string: "0" two positions above the tab body with two 'ledger lines' and so on.

Input of is via computer keyboard only: by moving the note entry cursor below (French) or above (Italian) the tab body, 'shadow' slashes or ledger lines will indicate the target string to which the fret mark will be applied; pressing one of the fret keys, will enter (and lay out) the note on that string.

Using a mouse

To enter notes into tablature with a mouse:

• Enter note input mode and select the note or rest duration (see below).
• Click on a string to create a note there. Notes are initially created on fret 0 (or a for French tablatures): to correct, type in the right number from the keyboard.
• You can also increase/decrease the fret mark using Alt+Shift+↑ or Alt+Shift+↓.
• You can enter notes in different voices if required—just as you would in a standard staff.

See also, Edit notes (below).

Select note duration

In note input mode, you can use any of the following methods to set note duration in tablature:

• Press Shift+1 to Shift+9: Sets duration from a 128th note to a longa (availability of these shortcuts may depend on the platform and/or keyboard layout);
• Press NumPad 1 to Numpad 9: Sets duration from a 128th note to a longa (if a numeric keypad exists and NumLock is on);
• Click on a note duration icon in the Note Input toolbar above the document window;
• Press Q to decrease the selected duration and W to increase it.

Edit notes

Note input mode

To edit an existing fret mark in note-input mode:

• Position the cursor above the fret mark and simply retype the number.
• Increment or decrement the fret mark using Alt+Shift+↑ or Alt+Shift+↓.

Non note input mode

To edit an existing fret mark outside note-input mode:

1. Select one or more fret marks.
2. Use any of the following commands:
   • To increment or decrement, without changing the string: Press ↑ / ↓.
   • To increment or decrement, changing strings, when possible, to minimize the fret number: Press Alt+Shift+↑ / ↓
   • To move to an adjacent string (if the string is free and can produce that note): Press Ctrl+↑ / ↓ .

Note: The fret mark cannot be higher than the "Number of frets" value set in the Edit String Data dialog.

Crosshead notes

To change a fret mark to a crosshead note:

1. Select one or more fret marks (in non-note-input mode).
2. Press Shift+X to toggles ghost noteheads on/off.

Summary of keyboard commands

Note input mode

Normal mode

External links

• Video tutorial: MuseScore in Minutes: Lesson 7 - Tablature and Drum Notation

Instrumentinvaihdot kesken viivaston

When a musician is required to double on a different instrument for a section of a piece, the instruction to switch instruments is generally placed above the staff at the beginning of that section. A return to the primary instrument is handled in the same manner.

MuseScore enables users to insert a special class of text called Change Instrument text for this purpose. This class of text is different from either Staff or System text in that it links the text to the playback and changes the sound to the new instrument.

Instrument changes as of version 2.1

Version 2.1 introduces a greatly improved mid-staff instrument change over previous versions. There are still some limitations that need to be considered prior to using it.

1. Mid-staff instrument changes are limited to the same type of staff. For example, you cannot change between a percussion staff and a pitched instrument staff or vice versa.

2. The instrument name is not changed in the mixer. It will still be listed under the instrument in the original definition of the staff.

3. The key signature is not automatically updated at the instrument change. You must manually change the Key signature if needed.

4. You can now enter the notes a musician would play once the instrument is changed and the correct key signature is entered if necessary.

5. Unless you are changing the type of staff, you will always use the Change Instrument text.

Instrument changes in version 2.0

There are several limitations to this in version 2.0 which should be understood before attempting to use it.

1. Automatic transposition from concert pitch to the appropriate key for the transposing brass and woodwind instruments is not currently supported. For changes to instruments notated in a different key (C flute to E♭ flute; Oboe to English Horn, etc.), the use of ordinary Staff Text to indicate the change is preferable, and the transposition must be done after the music is entered (using Notes→Transpose from the main menu). To avoid discord on playback, the instrument assigned to that staff should be muted in the F10 Mixer.

2. If it is necessary to hear the new instrument sound on playback, the Change Instrument text function must be used. However, after a mid-staff instrument change where the two instruments on the staff are not notated in the same key, no attempt should be made to enter new music directly from the keyboard. Instead, the music must be (a) pasted in, or (b) entered before the instrument change is affected. New input into measures following an instrument change is subject to two known program bugs, which cannot be resolved in the current 2.0.x versions without adversely affecting backwards compatibility. (This has been fixed in version 2.1) In addition, the score must remain notated in concert pitch, or discord will result from the transposition. As a convenience to the players, a copy of the part may be saved as a separate file and the required sections transposed to the appropriate key before the part is printed. (Note that transposing a linked part will affect the score as well.)

3. When changing from one concert-pitch instrument to another, or from one transposing instrument to another in the same key (Bb trumpet to Bb cornet or Flugelhorn, etc.), the Change Instrument Text may be used to ensure that the playback sound is altered to the new instrument. Input may be done in the usual manner, and is not affected by the bugs mentioned above.

Incompatibilities

There are some incompatibilities between the two versions.

1. Instrument changes created with version 2.0 and opened in version 2.1 or above will continue to either display the notes wrong or play the notes wrongs as in version 2.0. Deleting and reentering the instrument change will fix most incompatibility issues with only minor changes being needed.

2. Instrument changes created with version 2.1 or above and opened in version 2.0 will generally playback correctly but continue to display the wrong notes.

Add an instrument change

1. Select the start point of the change by clicking on a note or rest.
2. Open the main palette by typing F9 (or by using the View menu), and click on Text to open the text sub-palette.
   
3. Double-click on Instrument
4. The word "Instrument" will appear above the anchor note or rest.
5. Double-click the word "Instrument", then type Ctrl+A to select all of it.
6. Type the actual text you wish to appear in the score, then click outside the box to exit text edit mode.

7. Right-click the text and choose "Change Instrument…"

   

8. Choose the instrument, then click OK

   

See also

• Change instrument
• Mid-staff sound change

External links

• How to change instrument sound (e.g. pizz., con sordino) midway through score

Mikseri

The Mixer allows you to change instrument sounds and adjust the volume and panning for each staff.

To display/hide the mixer, use one of the following:

• Press F10 (Mac: fn+F10).
• From the main menu, select View→Mixer.

Note: Separate reverb and chorus effects for each channel are not yet implemented; use the synthesizer effects unit instead.

The name of each mixer channel is the same as the Part name in the Viivaston ominaisuudet dialog.

Mute and Solo

• To silence a selected staff, tick its "Mute" checkbox. Repeat as required.
• To solo a selected staff, tick the "Solo" checkbox for that staff.

Dials

To turn a dial clockwise, click and drag upwards. To turn a dial counter-clockwise, click and drag downwards. You can also hover the mouse pointer over the dial and then move the mouse wheel. Double-clicking on any dial restores it to its default position.

Sound

The "Sound" drop-down menu lists every instrument supported by your current SoundFont. If you have multiple SoundFonts loaded in the Synthesizer, all the patches from all the SoundFonts (and/or SFZ files) will appear in a single long list—in the order previously set in the Synthesizer.

Tip: To find an instrument, click on the "Sound" list and type the first letter of the instrument name. Repeat as required.

Mid-staff sound change (pizz., con sordino, etc.)

Some instruments come with multiple channels in the Mixer that can be used to change sounds midway through a score. For example, a staff for a stringed instrument (violin, viola, cello etc.) is allocated three channels: one for "Arco," another for "Pizzicato" and another for "Tremelo." A trumpet staff will have one channel for "Normal" and another reserved for "Mute." And so on.

The following instructions use pizzicato strings as an example, but the same principle can be applied to any other instrument staff that allows sound changes.

1. Select the first note of the section you want to be pizzicato;
2. From the main menu, choose Add→Text→Staff Text;
3. Type "Pizz." This text is for visual reference only and does not affect playback;
4. Right-click on the applied staff text and select Staff Text Properties…;
5. In the "Change Channel" tab of the "Staff Text Properties" dialog, select one or more voices on the left;

6. From the dropdown menu, select pizzicato;

   

7. Click OK to return to the score.

Every note after the staff text you added now sounds pizzicato. To return to a normal strings sound later in the piece, follow the same guidelines as above except type "Arco" in step 3 and select normal in step 6.

See also

• SoundFont
• Synthesizer
• Change instrument

External links

• How to change instrument sound (e.g. pizz., con sordino) midway through score

Swing

MuseScore's swing feature allows you to change the playback of your score from a straight to a swing rhythm. Swing can be applied globally or only to a section of the score, and is fully variable.

Apply swing to a score section

1. Click on the note where you want swing to start;

2. Double-click Swing in the Text palette (shown below);

   

3. Edit the Swing text as required;

4. If you need to vary swing from the default setting, right click the Swing text and select System text properties... Click on the "Swing Settings" tab and adjust note duration and "Swing ratio" as required.

Swing text can be edited just like any other text element: you can change it, style it, make it invisible etc.

Triplet in tempo marking

Often this notation is used to indicate swing:

MuseScore does not have a way to include a triplet in text as a tempo marking, but there is an easy workaround:

1. Add Swing text as described above and make it invisible (shortcut V, or untick "Visible" in the Inspector);
2. Add an appropriate Image of the required tempo marking to the score. This can be downloaded from the bottom of the "How To" page: How to create a visual swing marking.
3. Resize and reposition the image as required.

Return to straight rhythm

If you want playback to return to straight time after a swing section:

1. Add Swing text to the first note or rest of the "straight" section (see above).
2. Edit the text to indicate a return to straight time: e.g. "Straight."
3. Right-click on the text and select System Text Properties…. Click on the "Swing Settings" tab and set "Swing to "Off."

Apply swing globally

If you wish to apply swing to the whole score, you can do so from the menu:

1. Select Style → General... → Score.
2. In the "Swing Settings" section, set the desired note value and "swing ratio."

External links

• How to create a visual swing marking.
• Swing (jazz performance style) (Wikipedia)

Syntetisaattori

Overview

To display the Synthesizer: from the menu, select View→Synthesizer.

The Synthesizer controls MuseScore's sound output and allows you to:

• Load and organize different sound sample libraries to play back the music
• Apply effects such as reverb and compression
• Adjust overall tuning
• Alter the output volume of both music and the (optional) metronome.

The Synthesizer window is divided into four sections/tabs:

• Fluid: A software synthesizer that plays SF2/SF3 SoundFont sample libraries.
• Zerberus: A software synthesizer that plays SFZ format sample libraries.
• Master Effects: Used to apply multi-effects to the score.
• Tuning: Used to adjust overall playback tuning.

Synthesizer settings

Set as Default: When you open MuseScore, the Synthesizer always assumes the current default settings. If you want a new default to apply at the next session, change the settings as desired, then press the Set as Default button.

Save to Score / Load to Score: You can save a particular configuration of settings to an individual score by pressing the Save to Score button. When you next load the score, use the Load from Score button to transfer the stored settings to the Synthesizer.

Note: Only one set of Synthesizer settings can be in effect at a time—i.e. if multiple scores are open at once, it is not possible to make changes to the Synthesizer in one score and leave other scores' settings untouched.

Note: Changes made in the Synthesizer will not be heard in exported audio files unless the Synthesizer settings have been saved to the score with the Save to Score button. See also Tuning (below).

Fluid

Click on the Fluid tab to access the control panel for SF2/SF3 SoundFont sample libraries. By default, the SoundFont FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3 should already be loaded.

You can load, rearrange and delete soundfonts as required. Playback can be shared between any combination of different soundfonts (and/or SFZ files). The order of soundfonts in Fluid is reflected in the default order of instruments in the mixer.

To load a soundfont

1. Click on the Add button
2. Click on a soundfont in the list.

To be able to load the soundfont, it first needs to be installed in your Soundfonts folder. This will ensure that it appears in the list in step 2 (above).

To reorder the soundfonts

1. Click on a soundfont
2. Use the up/down arrows (on the right-hand side) to adjust the order.
3. Repeat with other soundfonts in the list if required.

If you have not changed any sounds in the Mixer, then the SoundFont at the top of the list is the one that will be used for playback. However, if you are using the Mixer to play different instruments with sounds from different SoundFonts, playback will only work correctly if you have the same SoundFonts loaded in the same order in the Synthesizer. Therefore, if you are using multiple SoundFonts, it is advised to click the Save to Score button in the Synthesizer, so that the next time you open that score you can recall the list of SoundFonts loaded (and other Synthesizer settings) with the Load from Score button.

To remove a soundfont

1. Click on the name of the soundfont
2. Click on the Delete button.

This removes the soundfont from the synthesizer but does not uninstall it from the Soundfonts folder: it will still be available if you wish to reload it later.

Zerberus

Click on the Zerberus tab to access the control panel for SFZ sound sample libraries. You can add or delete files in a similar way to the Fluid tab. Note that, as with Fluid, the the SFZ files must first be installed in your soundfonts folder before they can be loaded into the synthesizer.

Volume

At the right in the Synthesizer are two sliders. One controls the playback volume, the other controls the volume of the optional built-in metronome. You can turn the metronome on or off by clicking the button underneath its volume slider. As with all the rest of the Synthesizer controls, any changes made here are temporary unless saved to the score or set as the new default.

Effects

The Master Effects tab of the Synthesizer houses the Zita 1 stereo reverb and, as of version 2.0.3, the SC4 stereo compressor modules. Two slots are provided, "Effect A" and "Effect B," both with a drop-down list of available effects – including the option to set one or both channels to "No Effect." The effects are applied in series: Effect A → Effect B.

To store an effects configuration as the default option for the synthesizer, click the Set as Default button. If you subsequently change the effects set-up, you can restore whatever settings you made the defaults by clicking the Load Default button.

You can store a particular effects configuration with a score by clicking on the Save to Score button, and later load those settings from the score by clicking on Load from Score.

Zita 1 reverb

The Zita 1 stereo reverb module allows you to simulate the ambience of anything from a small room to a large hall. The pre-delay, reverb time and tone of the reverb can be finely tuned using the controls provided:

• Delay: Set a pre-delay for the reverb from 20-100 ms.
• Low RT60 (Low frequency reverb time): Use the grey control to adjust the center frequency (50–1000 Hz) of the low frequency band which you want to affect: the green control adjusts the reverb time (1–8 secs) of this frequency band.
• Mid RT60 (Mid-range reverb time): Adjust the reverb time (1–8 secs) of the mid-range frequency band.
• HF Damping: Adjusts the high frequency component of the reverb. Increasing this value increases the frequency of the cut-off point and makes the reverb appear brighter and longer.
• EQ1: Allows you to cut or boost (-15 to +15) a frequency band (center = 40 Hz - 2 KHz) in the lower part of the spectrum.
• EQ2: Allows you to cut or boost (-15 to +15) a frequency band (center = 160 Hz - 10 KHz) in the higher part of the spectrum.
• Output: Controls the amount of effect applied. "Dry" is no effect. "Wet" indicates 100% reverb. "Mix" is a 50/50 balance of wet/dry signal.

Note: EQ1 and EQ2 affect the tone of the reverb only, not the dry (unprocessed) signal.

To quickly set up an effects patch, set "Output" to "Mix" and adjust the "Mid RT60" control to the desired reverb time. Then fine tune the effect as explained above.

SC4 compressor

The SC4 stereo compressor (available as of version 2.0.3) gives you fine control over the playback's dynamic range, reducing the volume variation between loud and soft sounds. It offers the following controls:

• RMS: Adjusts the balance between RMS (0) and Peak (1) compression. In the former, the compressor responds to averaged-out levels in the signal; in Peak mode, the compressor responds to peak levels.
• Attack: (1.5–400 ms) The length of time it takes for compression to engage fully after the signal exceeds the threshold level.
• Release: (2–800 ms) The time it takes for compression to return to zero after the signal falls below the threshold level.
• Threshold: (in dB) The signal level above which compression starts to take effect. Lowering the threshold increases the amount of signal that is compressed.
• Ratio: The amount of compression applied to the signal above the threshold. The higher the ratio, the greater the compression. Varies between 1:1 to 20:1.
• Knee: Allows you to select a range between "soft knee" and "hard knee". The softer the knee, the more gradual the transition between uncompressed and compressed signal.
• Gain: Compression tends to lower the volume, so use this control to boost the signal as required.

To quickly set-up, try setting RMS = 1, Threshold = -20 db, Ratio = 6. Increase Gain to restore the lost volume. Then fine-tune as explained above.

Tuning

For Concert Pitch instruments, MuseScore uses the A4 = 440 Hz pitch standard by default. To change it, simply enter a new value in the Tuning tab of the Synthesizer.

Like all other Synthesizer settings, the master tuning affects playback within MuseScore but does not affect exported audio files (WAV, OGG, MP3) unless the Save to Score option is selected.

Change master tuning

Notes: Applies to all scores. Current session only (tuning resets to default on MuseScore exit). Affects playback but doesn't affect exported audio files (WAV, OGG, MP3, and MIDI).

1. View→Synthesizer.
2. Click the Tuning tab.
3. Enter a new Master Tuning value (Minimum value = 300 Hz; Maximum value = 600.0 Hz; Default 440 Hz).
4. Click Change Tuning.

Set default tuning

Note: Applies to all scores. Current session and all subsequent sessions (until you change it again). Affects playback but doesn't affect exported audio files (WAV, OGG, MP3, and MIDI).

1. Change the Master Tuning as shown above for the current session.
2. Select Set as Default.

Change tuning for an individual score

Note: Applies to current score for current session, use the Save to Score button, and settings can be recovered in subsequent sessions with Load from Score. Affects playback and exported audio files (WAV, OGG, MP3).

1. Change the Master Tuning as shown above for the current session.
2. Click Save to Score.
3. You will now get this new tuning in exported audio files of the current score, but other scores will export with the default tuning as expected. However, due to a limitation in MuseScore, you need to click Load from Score to get the correct tuning on playback.

See also

• SoundFont
• Mixer

Tempo

Tempo markings can be found in the Tempo palette of the Basic and Advanced workspaces. They are supplied as metronome marks, but can be subsequently edited to display any tempo or expression you want. Playback tempo can be varied throughout the score by using multiple tempo markings, visible or invisible.

Add a tempo marking

Use any of the following methods:

• Select a note or rest and press the keyboard shortcut Alt+T.
• Select a note or rest, and from the menu bar chose Add→Text...→Tempo Marking.
• Select a note or rest and double-click an appropriate metronome mark in the Tempo palette;
• Drag-and-drop a metronome mark from the Tempo palette directly onto a note or rest.

Note: If a tempo marking is applied from the menu or using a keyboard shortcut, the beat note automatically follows the time signature. The advantage of applying from a palette is that you can chose which beat note to use.

Edit tempo

To change the tempo of an existing metronome mark in the score:

1. Enter Edit mode for the tempo mark in question;
2. Edit the metronome number and/or the beat note as required;
3. Exit Edit mode.

You can also override the tempo of an existing metronome mark from the Inspector:

1. Select the tempo mark;

2. Untick "Follow text" in the "Tempo Marking" section of the Inspector;

   

3. Set the desired playback tempo in the "Tempo" field underneath.

Note: Playback may be faster or slower if the tempo setting in the play panel is at a percentage other than 100%.

Edit tempo text

Tempo marks can be edited and formatted just like any other text object. To set text properties or text style, see Text styles and properties.

The tempo indicated by a metronome mark usually persists even if overwritten by an expression—such as Andante, Moderato etc. You can also add further text to a plain metronome mark. e.g.

Ritardando and accelerando

Gradual tempo changes like ritardando ("rit.") and accelerando ("accel.") can be added to the score as system text, but currently don't have any effect on playback. The effect can be achieved, however, by stepping down the tempo using multiple invisible tempo markings. In this example, the tempo is decreased by 10 BPM on the first note of each measure, starting from 110 BPM before the ritardando. Each tempo change is made invisible by unchecking the Visible checkbox in the Inspector, so that only the ritardando shows on the printed score.

A plugin has been developed to automate this process: TempoChanges

Fermatas

Fermatas, available in the Articulations and Ornaments palette, have a Time stretch property that can be set via the Inspector. By default, this property is set to 1.00. To have MuseScore play back a fermata for twice its normal duration, click on the fermata and set "Time stretch" to 2.00.

Play panel

• Display the play panel: View→Play Panel or F11 (Mac: fn+F11)

  

• Change the percentage of the score's actual tempo using the Tempo slider

This setting is not saved in the score and will proportionally override all tempo markings set in the score. If you have multiple tempo markings in the score, the BPM (Beats per Minute) number displayed above the slider will depend on where in the score you are. For example, if you have a tempo of 80 BPM set, and the Play Panel is set to 120% of tempo, the actual tempo of the playback will be 96 BPM, which you can tell by the number displayed above the percentage in the Play Panel.

Note: BPM is always measured and displayed in quarter note beats per minute, regardless of the (denominator of the) time signature in effect.

See also

• Play mode
• Time signature

Toistotila

Basic playback functions are accessed from the Play toolbar located above the document window:

From left to right, the icons are:

• Rewind to start position: Playback returns to the beginning of the score, or to the start of the loop (if one is set).
• Start or stop playback: See Start/stop playback.
• Toggle loop playback: See Loop playback.
• Play repeats: Turn off if you want playback to ignore repeats.
• Pan score during playback: Turn off if you want the score to remain stationary.
• Play metronome: See Metronome playback.

Playback commands

Start/stop playback

To start playback:

1. Click on a note, rest or the blank part of a measure to establish the starting point. Note: If no selection is made, playback returns to the place it left off—or, if no previous playback, to the start of the score.
2. Press the play button button; or press Space.

During playback you can jump to a specific note or rest in the score by simply clicking on it.

To stop playback:

• Press the Playback button; or press Space.

During playback

Once playback has started, the following commands are available:

• Go back to previous chord: ←
• Advance to next chord: →
• Go back to start of previous measure: Ctrl+← (Mac: Cmd+←)
• Advance to start of next measure: Ctrl+→ (Mac: Cmd+→)
• Rewind to start of score: Home (Mac: ⌘+Home); or press the Rewind button (playback toolbar).

During playback you can still use keyboard shortcuts to open and close panels, such as Play, Synthesizer, Mixer etc.

Play panel

To open the Play Panel use one of the following options:

• Press F11 (Mac: Fn+F11).
• From the menu bar, select View → Play Panel.

The Play Panel offers temporary controls over playback, including playback speed (labelled 'tempo'), loop playback (with specified starting and ending positions), and general volume.

Note: Changes to the parameters in the Play Panel are not saved with the score: they only affect playback in the current session. Permanent changes to tempo should be made using tempo text. To change the default playback volume of the score, see Synthesizer.

Count in

You can switch on and off a count-in to be played each time the playback starts. The count-in plays beats for a full measure (according to nominal time signature at playback starting point); if the starting point is mid-measure or at a 'short' measure (anacrusis), it also plays enough beats to fill that measure. The conductor icon in the play panel enables, or disables count-in.

Metronome playback

You can also switch on/off the accompanying metronome as the score is played (see the metronome icon on the play panel).

Loop playback

You can loop playback of a selected passage in the score using either the Play toolbar (see image above) or the play panel.

To loop from the Play toolbar:

• Playback should be off, and the "Loop playback button" on.
• Select the desired region of the score for loop playback.
• Press the playback button.

Playback will now cycle within the region marked by the blue flags.

• Use the "Loop playback" button to toggle the loop on or off.

To loop from the Play Panel:

• Select the note from which you want playback to start and click on the "Set loop in position" button. The "Loop Playback" button becomes active.
• Select the last note of the desired playback region and click on the "Set loop out position" button.
• Press the play button.

Playback will now cycle within the region marked by the blue flags.

• You can use the "Loop playback" button to toggle the loop on or off.

Äänifontit ja SFZ-tiedostot

Audio playback for MuseScore is provided by virtual (or software) instruments, which can be either of two formats:

• SoundFont (file extension sf2/sf3). A single file containing one or more virtual instruments.
• SFZ (file extension sfz). A collection of audio and definition files containing one or more virtual instruments.

SF2/SF3 SoundFonts

A SoundFont (extension sf2 or, if using compressed samples, sf3) is a special type of file containing sound samples of one or more musical instruments, and is used to play back MIDI files. MuseScore 2.2 uses the SoundFont MuseScore_General.sf3. MuseScore 2.0–2.1 used the SoundFont FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3, which MuseScore_General is based on with several improvements. MuseScore 1 used a completely different SoundFont, TimGM6mb.sf2. These are General MIDI (GM) sample libraries consisting of 128+ musical instruments and various kinds of drum/percussion sets.

Once your score is set up to play correctly through FluidR3, it should be able to trigger similar instruments from any other GM sound source. This makes it possible to share scores even with non-MuseScore users, by exporting them as MusicXML or MIDI files (see Export).

Many different soundfonts are available on the Internet, both free and commercial. Larger SoundFonts often sound better but may be too large to run on your computer. If you find MuseScore runs slowly after installing a large SoundFont, or your computer can't keep up during playback, then look for a smaller SoundFont.

Once a SoundFont has been installed, you can use it for playback in MuseScore (and control other aspects of the sound output) with the Synthesizer. To display the Synthesizer, go to View → Synthesizer.

Install a SoundFont

After finding and decompressing a SoundFont (see →below), double-click to open it. In most cases, the SoundFont file type will already be associated with MuseScore, and MuseScore will start and a dialog will appear asking if you want to install the SoundFont. Occasionally an application other than MuseScore will be associated with the SoundFont file type; if this is the case, you will need to right-click or control-click on the file, so as to display a menu from which you can choose to open the file in MuseScore. In either case, when the dialog appears asking if you want to install the SoundFont, click "Yes" to place a copy of the SoundFont file in MuseScore's SoundFonts directory. This directory can be viewed or changed in MuseScore's Preferences, but the default location is:

• Windows: %HOMEPATH%\Documents\MuseScore2\Soundfonts

• macOS and Linux: ~/Documents/MuseScore2/Soundfonts

In contrast to user-added SoundFonts, the initial default SoundFont installed with MuseScore is located in a system directory, meant only for that purpose, which should not be modified. This directory and its default SoundFont file is:

• Windows (32-bit): %ProgramFiles%\MuseScore 2\sound\MuseScore_General.sf3

• Windows (64-bit): %ProgramFiles(x86)%\MuseScore 2\sound\MuseScore_General.sf3

• macOS: /Applications/MuseScore 2.app/Contents/Resources/sound/MuseScore_General.sf3

• Linux (Ubuntu): /usr/share/mscore-xxx/sounds/MuseScore_General.sf3 (with xxx being the MuseScore version)

Uninstall

To uninstall a SoundFont, simply open the folder where its file is installed and delete it.

SFZ

An SFZ consists of a bunch of files and directories, an SFZ file and a bunch of actual sound files in WAV or FLAC format, with the SFZ file being a text file that basically describes what sound file is located where and to be used for what instrument and pitch range.

Note: For full support of SFZ, MuseScore 2.1 or later is need, prior versions had only limited support, namely for Salamander Grand Piano

Install an SFZ

After finding an SFZ (see →below), you'd need to manually extract all the files that belong to the SZF (the SFZ file itself and all the subdirectories and the actual sound files within) into the directory listed above.

Uninstall

To uninstall an SFZ, simply open the folder where its files are installed (see above) and delete them all.

Synthesizer

The Synthesizer is MuseScore's central control panel for sound output. Once a SoundFont has been installed, it needs to be loaded into the Synthesizer in order for MuseScore to use it for playback. To make a different SoundFont the default, load it in the Synthesizer and click Set as Default.

To display the Synthesizer, go to View → Synthesizer. For more details, see Synthesizer.

List of downloadable soundfiles

GM SoundFonts

The following sound libraries conform to the General MIDI (GM2) standard. This specification gives you a sound set of 128 virtual instruments, plus percussion kits.

• GeneralUser GS (29.8 MB uncompressed)
  Courtesy of S. Christian Collins
• Magic Sound Font, version 2.0 (67.8 MB uncompressed)
• Arachno SoundFont, version 1.0 (148MB uncompressed)
  Courtesy of Maxime Abbey
• MuseScore 1 came with TimGM6mb (5.7 MB uncompressed)
  License: GNU GPL, version 2
  Courtesy of Tim Brechbill
• MuseScore 2 (up to version 2.1) comes with FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3 (13.8 MB).

• MuseScore 2 (as of version 2.2) comes with MuseScore_General.sf3 (35.9 MB).

  License: released under the MIT license

• Timbres of Heaven, version 3.2 (369 MB uncompressed)
  Courtesy of Don Allen

Orchestral soundfiles

• Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra (503 MB uncompressed)
  Downloads: SoundFont | SFZ format
  License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0

Piano soundfiles

SF2 Pianos

• Acoustic grand piano, release 2016-08-04
  Description: Yamaha Disklavier Pro Grand Piano, sf2 format, 36MiB compressed, 113MiB uncompressed, 121 samples, 5 velocity layers
  More information: http://freepats.zenvoid.org/ including other soundfonts.
  License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
  Courtesy of Roberto Gordo Saez

SFZ Pianos

• Salamander Grand Piano
  Downloads: version 2 | version 3
  Description: Yamaha C5, 48kHz, 24bit, 16 velocity layers, between 80 MB and 1.9 GB uncompressed
  License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
  Courtesy of Alexander Holm
• Detuned Piano (244 MB uncompressed)
  License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
• Plucked Piano Strings
  Description: 44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo, 168 MB uncompressed
  License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
• The City Piano
  Description: Baldwin Baby Grand, 4 velocity layers, 696 MB uncompressed
  License: Public domain
  Courtesy of Big Cat Instruments
• Kawai Upright Piano, release 2017-01-28
  Description: 68 samples, 44KHz, 24bit, stereo, 2 velocity layers, 58MiB uncompressed
  License: GNU General Public License version 3 or later, with a special exception
  Courtesy of Gonzalo and Roberto

Unzipping downloaded soundfiles

Since soundfiles are large, they are often zipped (compressed) into a variety of formats, including .zip, .sfArk, and .tar.gz. You need to unzip (decompress) these files before they can be used.

• ZIP is standard compression format supported by most operating systems.

• sfArk is a compression format designed especially for compressing SoundFont files. Use the special sfArk software to decompress it, or use this online service: https://cloudconvert.com/sfark-to-sf2

• .tar.gz is a popular compression format for Linux. Windows users can use 7-Zip; Mac users can use The Unarchiver, or macOS' built-in Archive Utility. Note that if using 7-Zip, you will need to apply decompression twice—once for GZip and once for TAR.

Troubleshooting

If the toolbar play panel is greyed out, or not visible, follow the instructions below to get your sound working again:

• Do a right-click on the menu bar and make sure there is a check mark next to the Transport Tools menu item. You can add or remove the check mark by clicking on the corresponding menu item. If this step does not solve your problem, continue below.
• If the play panel disappears after changing the SoundFont, go to Edit → Preferences... → I/O tab and click OK without making any changes. After restarting MuseScore, the play panel should reappear.

If you are setting up a SoundFont for the first time, please use one of the recommended SoundFonts listed above.

If playback stutters, then your computer is not able to handle the SoundFont being used. Two solutions:

1. Reduce the amount of RAM (memory) used by MuseScore by using a smaller SoundFont. See list above for suggestions.
2. Increase the amount of RAM available for MuseScore by quitting all applications except MuseScore. If you still have problems and a large SoundFont is important to you, consider more RAM for your computer.

See also

• Synthesizer
• Mixer

External links

• How to change the SoundFont or add another
• The SFZ Format (for details about the sfz specification)

Dynamiikka

Dynamiikkamerkinnät ilmaisevat nuotin tai säkeen voimakkuutta. Symbolit on löydettävissä Dynamiikka-paletista joko Perus- tai Edistyneessä työtilassa:

Note: Overall playback volume of the score can be changed using the volume slider in the Play Panel or Synthesizer.

Add a dynamic

To apply a dynamic to the score, use one of the following methods:

• Select a note and double-click a dynamic symbol in a palette.
• Drag a dynamic symbol from a palette onto a note.

For additional dynamics use the Master Palette (Shift+F9). You can also create a custom palette for future use.

To create a crescendo or decrescendo sign, see Hairpin.

Adjusting playback volume for a dynamic

Click on the dynamic to select it, and adjust its Velocity in the Inspector—higher for louder, lower for softer.

Adjusting range for a dynamic

Via the Inspector you can set the staves affected by a dynamic. The "Dynamic range" is by default set to "part," which means all staves for an instrument will be affected. Changing this to "staff" will limit the dynamic to the staff it is entered on only. Changing this to "System" will cause all instruments to play this dynamic.

List of dynamics in palettes

In the Basic workspace, there are 8 options in the Dynamics palette: ppp, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, fff.

In the Advanced workspace, there are all of the above plus 15 additional options in the Dynamics palette: fp, sf, sfz, sff, sffz, sfp, sfpp, rfz, rf, fz, m, r, s, z, n.

In the Dynamics section of the Master Palette, there are all of the above plus 6 additional options: pppppp, ppppp, pppp, ffff, fffff, ffffff.

Edit a dynamic

Any dynamic can be edited after being added to the score, just like standard text. See Text editing.

See also

• Tempo

External links

• Video tutorial: Lesson 10 - Articulations, Dynamics and Text
• Dynamics at Wikipedia

Tekstin perusteet

Add text

To add a text-based element to the score, use one of the following general methods:

• Keyboard shortcut: For example, press Ctrl+Tto enter Staff text , Ctrl+L to enter Lyrics, and so on.
• Menu command: Add→Text allows you to chose from a range of text-based elements.
• Workspace: Select a note and double-click an icon in one of the palettes; or, alternatively, drag a symbol from a palette onto the staff. e.g. Swing text, Tempo text etc.

Notes: (1) The exact method depends on the type of text you are adding (see Text). (2) For general-purpose text boxes attached to staves, see Staff and system text.

Format text

Every text-based element in the score has three levels of formatting:

• Text style: This is the highest level of formatting and applies to all text elements in the score of a particular type. For details, see Text style.
• Text properties: This applies to the style of one specific text object only. For details, see Text properties.
• Character formatting; The style applied to individual text characters during editing. For details, see Text editing.

Adjust position of text objects

To position a text object, use any of the following methods:

• Drag the object.
• Select the object and adjust the horizontal or vertical offset values in the Inspector.
• Select the object and apply any of the following keyboard shortcuts:
  • ←: Move text left 0.1 staff space.
  • →: Move text right 0.1 staff space.
  • ↑: Move text up 0.1 staff space.
  • ↓: Move text down 0.1 staff space.
  • Ctrl+← (Mac: ⌘+←): Move text left one staff space.
  • Ctrl+→ (Mac: ⌘+→): Move text right one staff space.
  • Ctrl+↑ (Mac: ⌘+↑): Move text up one staff space.
  • Ctrl+↓ (Mac: ⌘+↓): Moves text down one staff space.

Text anchors

When you apply a text element to the score, its anchor position will depend on the type:

• Title, Subtitle, Composer, Poet: Anchored to a frame.
• Fingering: Anchored to note heads.
• Lyrics: Anchored to a time position (a note/chord, but not a rest).
• Chord symbol: Anchored to a time position.
• Staff text: Anchored to a time position.
• System text: Anchored to a time position.

Tekstin muokkaaminen

Enter/exit text edit mode

To enter Text edit mode use one of the following methods:

• Double click on a text element.
• Right-click on a text element and select Edit element.
• Click on a text element and press Ctrl+E (Mac: Cmd+E).

In this mode you can apply formatting to individual characters, including options such as Bold, Italic, font, font size, subscript and superscript. These are accessed from the Text toolbar below the document window:

To exit Text edit mode use one of the following:

• Press Esc.
• Click on a part of the score outside the edit window.

Keyboard shortcuts

In Text edit mode, the following keyboard shortcuts are available:

• Ctrl+B (Mac: ⌘+B) toggles bold face.
• Ctrl+I (Mac: ⌘+I) toggles italic.
• Ctrl+U (Mac: ⌘+U) toggles underline.
• Home End ← → ↑ ↓ moves cursor.
• Backspace (Mac: Delete) remove character to the left of the cursor.
• Delete (Mac: → Delete or fn+Delete) remove character to the right of the cursor.
• Return start new line.
• F2 (Mac: fn+F2) Insert special characters (see below).

Symbols and special characters

You can use the Special Characters window to insert quarter notes, fractions, and many other kinds of special symbols or characters into your text. A few symbols can also be accessed by shortcut (see below).

To open Special Characters, use any of the following methods:

• Click on the icon in the text toolbar (below the score window).
• Press F2 (Mac: fn+F2).

Note: (1) This only works in Text edit mode; (2) The Special Characters dialog should not be confused with the menu item of the same name in the macOS version of MuseScore.

The dialog is divided into 3 tabs: Common symbols, musical symbols and unicode symbols. The musical and unicode tabs are further subdivided into alphabetically-arranged categories.

Double-clicking an item in the Special Characters dialog immediately adds it to the text where the cursor is positioned. Multiple items can be applied without closing the dialog box, and the user can even continue to type normally, delete characters, enter numerical character codes etc., with it open.

Special character shortcuts

In Text edit mode the following keyboard shortcuts can be used to access certain special characters:

Ctrl+Shift+B: Flat.
Ctrl+Shift+F: Forte.
Ctrl+Shift+H: Natural.
Ctrl+Shift+M: Mezzo.
Ctrl+Shift+N: Niente.
Ctrl+Shift+R: Rinforzando.
Ctrl+Shift+S: Sforzando.
Ctrl+Shift+Z: Z.

See also

• Chord symbol
• Lyrics
• Frame
• Edit mode

Tekstin tyylit ja ominaisuudet

Text styles and text properties

Every piece of text has a basic style. Title text, for example, is centered and uses a large font size; Composer text is smaller and aligned to the right within the top vertical frame.

To edit text styles, use any of the following methods:

• From the menu bar, select Style → Text...
• Right-click on a text object and select Text Style...

Note: Changes to a text style will affect all text that uses that style within a score.

To edit a text property (which has the same parameters as the text style):

• Right-click on a text object and select Text Properties....

Unlike changes to a text style, changes to text properties only apply to the single specific piece of text you right-clicked on. The text style for the rest of the score remains unchanged, and other text using the same style is unaffected.

During text editing you can make changes that depart from the basic style and may also differ from the specific text properties of a given piece of text. You can revert changes made through text editing (such as font size and italics) with the reset text to style option.

The available options are divided into categories:

• Text
  • Font: name of the font such as "Times New Roman" or "Arial"
  • Size: size of the font in points
  • Style: style of the font, italic, bold, underline
  • Color: click on the color demonstrated to change
  • Size follows "Staff space" setting: whether size follows the distance between two lines in a 5-lines standard staff
  • System flag: text applies to all staves of a system.
• Offset
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Offset Unit: in mm or Staff space units
• Alignment
  • Horizontal: left, right, center
  • Vertical: align top edge of text to reference point, center text vertical to reference point, center text vertical to text baseline or align bottom edge of text to reference point

• Frame

  • Frame: add a frame around the text
  • Frame Type: Circle or Box
  • Border thickness: thickness of the line of the frame in space units
  • Border radius: for box frame, radius of rounded corner
  • Text margin : inner frame margin in space units
  • Foreground color: of the frame border
  • Background color: of the background within the frame.

  Note: Opacity is set by the parameter "Alpha channel" in the colors dialog: a value between 0, transparent, and 255, opaque.

Text types

• Title, Subtitle, Composer, Poet: anchored to page
• Fingering: Fingerings are anchored to note heads.
• Lyrics: Lyrics are anchored to a time position (a note/chord, but not a rest).
• Chord symbol: Chord symbols are anchored to a time position.
• System text: Applies to all staves in a system. Anchored to a time position.
• Staff text: Applies to a single staff in a system. Anchored to a time position.

The distinction between system text and staff text matters for part extraction in ensemble scores. System text will extract to all parts. Staff text will only extract to the part to which it is anchored. For details, see Text.

Create a new text style

1. From the menu bar, select Style → Text...; or right-click on a text object and select Text Style...;
2. Click on New ;
3. Set a name;
4. Set all properties as desired.

This text style will be saved along with the score. It will not be available in other scores, unless you explicitly save the style sheet and load it with another score.

Apply options

You can apply to either the score or part you are seeing, if you hit Apply and then OK.

If you are in one of the parts of your score, you also have the option to use the Apply to all parts button before OK, so you don't have to manipulate all parts individually.

Reset text to style

If you have made changes to an individual piece of text and you want to return it to the defined text style for the score, or if you changed the style with an old version of MuseScore and you want the style to correspond to the default text style in MuseScore 2, you can use the Reset Text to Style option.

Select the text you want to reset to style and click on Reset Text to Style in the Inspector. If you need all text from a given style to be "reset", right-click on one, then from the context menu choose Select → All Similar Elements first.

Save and load text styles

Text styles (together with all other styles in a document) can be saved as a style file and loaded into other MuseScore files. See Save and load style.

See also

• Text editing
• Header/Footer

Staff and system text

For general-purpose text, use Staff Text or System Text. The difference between these two types of text is whether you want it to apply to a single staff, or the whole system. This matters when extracting parts: staff text will only appear in a part that contains the specific instrument the text is attached to, while system text will appear in all parts. Additionally, if you choose to hide empty staves, any staff text belonging to an empty staff will also be hidden. System text is never hidden by the "hide empty staves" feature.

Staff text

Staff text is general purpose text associated with a particular staff at a particular location in the score. To create staff text, choose a location by selecting a note or rest and then use the menu option Add → Text → Staff Text, or use the shortcut Ctrl+T (Mac: ⌘+T). A small text box appears and you can immediately start typing. You can exit the text box at any time (even without typing anything) by pressing Esc.

Staff text can, for example, be used to apply indications such as "Solo" or "Pizzicato" to one staff in a score. Depending on what the instructions of the staff text are, MIDI playback of that staff at the text location can be altered to match the instructions by right-clicking on the staff text and selecting Staff Text Properties…. See Mid-staff sound change.

System text

System text is used when you wish to apply text indications to a whole system rather than just to one staff line. This makes a difference when extracting parts, or if you choose to hide empty staves. To create system text, chose a location by selecting a note or rest and then use the menu option Add → Text → System Text, or use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T (Mac: ⌘+Shift+T). A small text box appears and you can immediately start typing. You can exit the text box at any time (even without typing anything) by pressing Esc.

See also

• Mid-staff sound change

External links

• How to change instrument sound (e.g. pizz., con sordino) midway through score

Sointumerkintä

Aloittaaksesi Sointumerkkien lisäämisen partituuriisi, valitse ensin nuotti tai tauko ja paina Ctrl+K (Mac: ⌘+K). Tämä asemoi kursorin viivaston yläpuolelle, minkä jälkeen viivasto on valmis tietojen syöttöön.

Sijoita sointumerkki

Sointumerkintöjä voidaan syöttää ja muokata aivan kuten normaalia tekstiä. Korotukset (♯) ja alennukset (♭) syötetään seuraavanlaisesti:

• korotus: #.
• Alennus: b.
• Kaksoiskorotus: x tai ##.
• Kaksoisalennus: bb.

Note: When you exit the chord symbol, the characters you have typed will automatically assume the correct format : a "#" or "b" will turn into a proper sharp (♯) or flat (♭) and so on. Do not try to use actual flat and sharp signs as MuseScore will not understand those properly.

After you have finished entering a chord symbol you can either:

• Exit by pressing Esc.
• Move the cursor forward or backwards to continue note entry (see commands below).

Keyboard Commands

The following commands are available for chord symbol entry:

• Space move Cursor to next note, rest, or beat
• Shift+Space move cursor to previous note, rest, or beat
• Ctrl+Space (Mac: ⌘+Space) add a space to the chord name
• ; move cursor to next beat
• : move cursor to previous beat
• Tab move cursor to next measure
• Shift+Tab move cursor to previous measure
• Ctrl plus number (1 - 9) move Cursor by duration corresponding to number (e.g.; half note for 6)
• Esc exit.

Edit a chord symbol

An existing chord symbol can be edited just like ordinary text. See Text editing.

Chord symbol syntax

MuseScore understands most of the abbreviations used in chord symbols:

• major: M, Ma, Maj, ma, maj, Δ (type t or ˆ for the triangle)
• minor: m, mi, min, -
• diminished: dim, ° (entered with lowercase letter o, shows as ° if using the the Jazz style, as o otherwise)
• half-diminished: ø (type 0, zero)
• augmented: aug, +

Note that for half-diminished chords, you can of course also enter abbreviations like mi7b5 and they will be rendered that way instead of using the ø.

You can also use extensions and alterations like b9 or #5, sus, alt, and no3. You can indicate inversions and slash chords using notations like C7/E. You can use parentheses and commas within chord symbols, and you can also enclose an entire chord symbol in parentheses.

Chord symbol text

The appearance of chord symbol text can be adjusted in the Text Styles window (right click on any chord symbol and select Text Style…).

Chord symbol style

Formatting options for chord symbols are available in Style → General... → Chord Symbols, Fretboard Diagrams. Adjustable properties are listed under the following headings:

Style

MuseScore supports two primary styles of chords symbols: Standard and Jazz. You can select between these using the radio buttons.

In the Standard style, chords are rendered simply, with the font determined by your chord symbol text style.

In the Jazz style, the MuseJazz font is used for a handwritten look, and superscript and other formatting techniques are used as well.

The Jazz style is selected by default if you use any of the Jazz templates.

The third radio button is mostly for compatibility with older scores. You can also use it to specify your own custom chord descriptions files. These can be created by copying one of the standard files and reading the documentation within them on their structure. However, this is for advanced users only, and there is no guarantee these files will be supported in the future.

Note spelling

By default, MuseScore uses letter names for chord symbols. For users in regions where other note naming schemes are used, MuseScore provides the following controls:

• Standard: A, B♭, B, C, C♯,...
• German: A, B♭, H, C, C♯,...
• Full German: A, B, H, C, Cis,...
• Solfeggio: Do, Do♯, Re♭, Re,...
• French: Do, Do♯, Ré♭, Ré,...

In addition, there are options to control capitalization. By default, MuseScore automatically capitalizes all note names as shown above, whether you originally enter those using capital or lower case letters. However, you can also choose other automatic capitalization options:

• Lower case minor chords: c, cm, cm7,...
• Lower case bass notes: C/e,...
• All caps note names: DO, RE, MI,...

You can also turn off the automatic capitalization completely, in which case note names are simply rendered the way you type them.

Positioning

• Default vertical position: The height at which the chord symbol is applied above the staff (negative values can be used)
• Distance to fretboard diagram: If a fretboard diagram is present, this value is the height at which the chord symbol is applied above the diagram (negative values can be used).
• Minimum chord spacing: The space to leave between chord symbols.
• Maximum barline distance: Changes the size of the gap between the last chord symbol in the measure and the following barline. You only need to adjust this value if there is a continuous problem in the score with overlap between the last symbol in one measure and the first symbol in the next.

Note: In addition to the settings described here, the default position of applied chord symbols is also determined by settings in the Text Styles dialog. The effect is cumulative.

Capo

Enter the number of the capo position at which you want to display substitute chords, in brackets, after all chord symbols in the score.

Sormitus

Fingering symbols for various instruments are found in the Fingering palette in the Advanced workspace.

• Keyboard music employs the numbers 1–5 to represent fingers of the left or right hand. There is also a fingering positioner plugin to help you optimize the layout of piano or keyboard fingerings.

• Guitar music uses the numbers 0–4 to represent left-hand fingering (T is occasionally used for the thumb). Right-hand fingering is indicated by the letters p, i, m, a, c. Circled numbers represent instrument strings.

• The last five symbols in the palette are used for lute fingering in historical music. Note: To enable display of fingering in tablature, right-click on the TAB, select Staff Properties...→Advanced style properties, and tick "Show Fingerings".

Add fingering to a single note

Use any of the following methods:

• Select a note and double click one of the fingering symbols in a Palette.
• Drag and drop a fingering symbol from a palette onto a note

When fingering is added to a note, the focus immediately shifts to the symbol, so you can adjust it right away.

Add fingering to several notes

1. Select the desired notes;
2. Double-click a fingering symbol in a palette.

Adjust position of fingering

Single fingering

To change the position of one symbol, use any of the following methods:

• For fine adjustments (0.1 sp) use the arrow keys; For larger adjustments (1 sp) use Ctrl+Arrow.
• Change horizontal and vertical offsets in the Inspector.
• Drag the symbol using your mouse.

Multiple fingering

To change the position of multiple symbols:

1. Select the desired fingering symbols;
2. Adjust using the horizontal and vertical offset fields in the Inspector.

Note: You can also use the fingering positioner plugin mentioned above to optimize the layout of piano fingerings.

To restore a symbol to its default position, select it and press Ctrl+R.

Edit fingering text

Fingering is a form of text symbol and can be edited and styled like any other. Right-clicking on the symbol gives you a range of options.

Sanoitukset

Lisää sanoitukset partituuriin

Liittääksesi sanat partituurin nuotteihin:

1. Valitse nuotit, joihin aiot liittää sanat.
2. Napauta yksittäistä säveltä, josta haluat sanoituksen alkavan.
3. Kirjoita Ctrl+L (Mac: ⌘+L); tai valitse päävalikosta Luo→Teksti→Sanoitus. Kirjoita sitten tavu ensimmäiseen nuottiin.
4. Käytä seuraavia vaihtoehtoja jatkaaksesi sanojen lisäämistä:
   • Kirjoita Välilyönti (tai Ctrl+→) sanan loppuun, jotta pääset seuraavaan nuottiin.
   • Lisää väliviiva - tavun loppuun päästääksesi seuraavaan nuottiin. Tavut ovat liitetty toisiinsa viivalla.
   • Paina Shift+Välilyönti (tai Ctrl+←) siirtyäksesi edelliseen tavuun.
   • Paina ↵ siirtyäksesi alaspäin seuraavaan sanastoriviin (Huomautus: älä käytä Enter-painiketta numeronäppäimistön kautta!)
   • Paina Ylänuoli-näppäintä palataksesi ylempänä olevaan sanastoriviin.
5. Paina Esc-näppäintä lopettaaksesi sanojen syötön.
6. To type a second or further lyric line repeat steps 2 and 3 above, or double-click the first syllable, hit ↵ and type the syllable for the first note, then continue at step 4

Example

Melisma

A melisma is a syllable or word that extends over two or more notes. It is indicated by an underline extending from the base of a syllable to the last note of the melisma. The underline is created by positioning the cursor at the end of a syllable and pressing Shift+_: once for each note in the melisma. See the image below:

The above lyric was created in the following manner:

1. Type the letters, soul,.
2. At the end of the word, press Shift+___.
3. Type the letters To, then press Esc.

For non-last syllables to extend, just use additional dashes -, only one of them will show, and the syllable will right-align to the first note, similar to last syllables that got notated with a melisma, see above.

Elision / Synalepha / Lyric Slur

Two syllables under a note can be joined with an elision character, also known as a "lyric slur" or "synalepha".

In the text toolbar, click on the keyboard icon , or hit F2 to open the Text Symbols palette. The synalepha is the 4th from the end (U+203F ‿ "undertie"). The synalepha will be evenly centered separating the syllables with two spaces and by inserting it after the first. For the "e͜ A" example shown above:

1. Type e
2. Insert the synalepha using the F2 palette
3. Type Ctrl+Space (Mac: ⌥+Space)
4. Type A

Not all fonts include the synalepha character. To find out which fonts on your computer support the synalepha, see "fontlist" (look for any font that shows a tie between "e" and "A" instead of a blank rectangle). The alignment of the character also varies between fonts.

Special characters

Lyrics can be edited as normal text with the exception of a few characters: If you want to add a space, hyphen, or underscore to a single syllable, use the following shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Space (Mac: ⌥+Space) enters a space ( ) into the lyrics text.

• Ctrl+- (Mac: ⌥+-) or AltGr+- enters a hyphen ("-") into the lyrics text.

• Ctrl+↵ (Mac: ⌥+Return) or Enter (from the numeric keypad) enters a line feed into the lyrics text.

Adjusting individual lyric lines

The top margin and line height of all lyric lines can be adjusted globally from the menu, Style→General...→Page.

However, the horizontal (and vertical) offset of individual lyric lines can be finely adjusted by right-clicking on a word in the desired line, and using the various selection options available to select all the words that you wish to change. Then adjust using the offset option in the Inspector.

For example, to change the horizontal position of the lyrics in one staff only of one particular system: right click on a word in that line, choose Select→More..., then tick the boxes labelled "Same Staff" and "Same System". Now use "horizontal offset" in the Inspector to fine tune the line position.

To select lyrics for a range of notes, first select the range of notes (click first note, shift+click last), then right click a lyric and choose Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection. Now use the Inspector to adjust the lyrics.

Copy lyrics to clipboard

In MuseScore 2.0.3 and above, select Edit→Tools→Copy Lyrics to Clipboard.

Paste lyrics from clipboard

To copy and paste lyrics from a text file into a score:

1. Enter the notes in the score to which the lyrics will be attached.
2. Set up your lyrics in a text file, with appropriate spaces, hyphens, line-breaks etc.
3. Copy the lyrics from the text-file.
4. Select the start note in MuseScore, and press Ctrl+L (Mac: Cmd+L) (step 3 under Enter lyrics in a score).
5. Repeatedly applying paste will enter successive words of the lyrics. You may need to enter melismas and make other corrections as you go along.

See also

• Text
• Chord symbol

External links

• How to insert Lyrics
• How to move lyrics
• How to copy lyrics, or lyrics with rhythm
• How to add a block of text to a score
• Video tutorial: MuseScore in Minutes: Lesson 6 - Text, Lyrics and Chords

Harjoitusmerkit

Rehearsal marks can be used in one or more ways:

• To identify specific points in a score to facilitate rehearsing.
• As bookmarks in the score to which you can instantly navigate—using the Find/Search command.
• To mark the various sections in the score.

Typically, a rehearsal mark consists of one or more letters or numbers, or a combination of both. Marks appear in sequence in the score—e.g. A, B, C…, or 1, 2, 3… etc.; or they may contain the number of the measure they are attached to (usually larger than plain measure numbers, often boldface and/or enclosed in boxes).

Rehearsal marks can be added to the score (i) automatically—which ensures that they are named in sequence—or (ii) manually, allowing you to name them as you wish.

Add a rehearsal mark

Manual Placement

The simplest way to add a rehearsal mark is to click on a note (or rest) at the start of a rehearsal section and use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M (Mac: Cmd+M), or use the menu command Add → Text → Rehearsal Mark: then enter the desired text yourself.

Automatic placement

Alternatively, select a note, open the Text palette, and double-click the [B1] rehearsal mark icon: the correct letter or number is entered automatically, according to the following rules:

1. The first automatic rehearsal mark you create is labelled "A," the second "B," the third "C," and so on. If you want to establish a different format (lower case, number or measure-number), change the first rehearsal mark accordingly before adding the second one. Subsequently-added rehearsal marks follow the format of the previously-added mark.

2. If you add a (palette) rehearsal mark between two existing alphabetical marks, a "1" is appended to the name of the new mark: so a mark added between letters "C" and "D" becomes "C1," and so on. Similarly, if you add a new rehearsal mark between two existing numerical marks, an "A" is appended: so a mark added between numbers "3" and "4" becomes "3A" and so on. Afterward, you can automatically resequence the rehearsal marks, if required (see →below).

3. To create a series based on measure number, the first rehearsal mark should be altered, before creating a second one, so that it reads the same as the number of the measure it is attached to. (If the number of the rehearsal mark is different from the actual measure number, subsequent marks will assume a numerical order.)

Automatically resequence rehearsal marks

MuseScore allows the user to automatically re-order a series of rehearsal marks if they have got out of sequence for any reason. Use the following method:

1. Before making a selection, you can, if desired, establish a new format for the rehearsal marks (lower/upper case, number, or measure number) by manually altering the first mark in the range accordingly.
2. Select the range of measures you wish to apply the Resequence command to (if there is no selection then the program assumes you wish to resequence all measures).
3. Select Edit → Tools → Resequence Rehearsal Marks.

MuseScore automatically detects the sequence based on the first rehearsal mark in the selection—all rehearsal marks in the selection are then altered accordingly. The following sequences are possible:

• A, B, C etc.
• a, b, c etc.
• Numerical: 1, 2, 3 etc.
• Numerical: according to measure numbers. This requires the number of the first mark in the series to be equal to the number of the measure it is attached to.

Search for a rehearsal mark

To navigate to a specific rehearsal mark, press Ctrl+F (Mac: Cmd+F) to open the Find bar, then enter the name of the rehearsal mark. The first character of a rehearsal mark must be a letter for it to be found: subsequent characters can be letters or numbers. As of version 2.1 all rehearsal marks can be searched for by typing an "r" followed by the rehearsal mark.

Note: If the text entered in the Find bar consists only of numbers, the program assumes you are searching for a measure number. See Viewing and Navigation: Find.

Text style

Rehearsal marks are a variety of system text. They will appear on every part and on the score. Multi-measure rests are automatically broken before and after rehearsal marks.

By default, rehearsal marks are bold, in large font size, and enclosed in frames with rounded corners. All aspects of their appearance can be changed globally via the rehearsal mark Text style.

See also

• Text properties

External links

• Rehearsal Letter (Wikipedia article)

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Layout and formatting options for the score can be accessed mainly from the Layout and Style menus.

Ways to affect layout

This section lists the main commands and dialogs affecting score layout. Other formatting options are covered in either Layout menu or Style menu below (for text, see Text styles and properties).

From the Layout menu:

• Page Settings: Adjust the overall dimensions of your score such as page size, page margins, and scaling.

• Increase Stretch/Decrease Stretch: Adjust the score spacing by stretching or squashing selected measures.

From the Style menu:

• Score Style: Set overall score details, such as music font, display of multi-measure rests, and whether to hide empty staves.

• Page Style: Adjust staff and system spacing, score and lyric margins etc.

• Measure Style: Set the measure spacing, which affects the number of measures per line.

• Sizes: Set the default size of "small" and grace notes, small staves and small clefs.

Other commands:

• Add/Remove line breaks: Set the number of measures per system.

• Vaihdot ja välistäjät: Apply line, page or section breaks. You can also add extra space between particular systems or staves where needed.

Layout menu

Page Settings...

See Page settings.

Reset

The Reset command restores all selected score elements to their default position. It also restores the default directions of note stems and beams. To apply:

1. Select the elements or the region of the score that you wish to reset. Or use Ctrl+A to select the whole score.
2. Press Ctrl+R; or from the menu select Layout→Reset.

Increase Stretch/Decrease Stretch

Increase or decrease the horizontal spacing of notes within selected measures. To apply:

1. Select a range of measures. Or use Ctrl+A to select the whole score.
2. Chose one of two options:
   • To increase stretch:
     • Use the shortcut } (right curly bracket) (Mac: Ctrl+Alt+9);
     • Or from the menu bar, select Layout→Increase Stretch;
   • To decrease stretch:
     • Use the shortcut { (left curly bracket) (Mac: Ctrl+Alt+8);
     • Or from the menu bar, select Layout→Decrease Stretch.

See also Measure Properties: Layout stretch. This allows you to set the stretch more precisely.

Reset Stretch

To reset stretch to the default spacing of 1:

1. Select a range of measures. Or use Ctrl+A to select the whole score.
2. From the menu, select Layout→Reset Stretch.

Reset Beam Mode

To restore beams to the mode defined in the local time signatures:

1. Select the section of the score you want to reset. If nothing is selected, the operation will apply to the whole score;
2. Select Layout→Reset Beam Mode.

See also Beams.

Regroup Rhythms

As of version 2.1, this option corrects note ties, durations and beaming so that they are grouped according to standard music notation practice. For example:
Before:

After:

Any notes that are tied and are the same length as a dotted note will be changed to the dotted note with two limitations. (i) Only the last note of a group of tied notes will have a single dot. Notes with more than one dot are not produced using this option. (ii) Dotted notes will not span from one group of beamed notes to another unless their duration is the same as all of the beam groups it covers. Any notes with more than one dot will be regrouped according to the above rules.

To apply:

1. Select the section of the score you want to reset. If nothing is selected, the operation will apply to the whole score;
2. Select Layout→Regroup Rhythms.

Note: This is an experimental feature and there are known bugs. Articulations and ornaments are deleted and some pitches respelt. Ties across barlines may be lost on UNDO.

Style menu

General: Score

To open the Score dialog: from the menu, select Style→General...→Score.

This dialog allows you to set global properties, such as the music font, display of multimeasure rests, whether or not to hide empty staves, "swing" playback etc.

• Musical symbols font: Choice of display in Emmentaler, Bravura or Gonville fonts.

• Musical text font: Choice of display in Emmentaler, Bravura, Gonville or MuseJazz fonts.

• Display in concert pitch: Tick this option to display the score at concert pitch. If unticked the score is displayed at written pitch.

• Create multimeasure rests: Tick to display multimeasure rests.

  • Minimum number of empty measures; The default is 2.
  • Minimum width of measure: The default width is 4 sp.

• Hide empty staves: This option saves space by hiding those staves in a system which consist of only empty measures. Used for condensed scores.

• Don't hide empty staves in first system: Always display staves in first system even if they consist of empty measures.

• Display note values across measure bar: A feature useful for notating early music. See Unbarred notation.

• Hide instrument name if there is only one instrument: You don't usually need to display the instrument name in this case.

• Swing setting: The default is off. Choice of swung eighth or sixteenth notes.

  • Select swing ratio: The default setting is 60%.

See also, Swing

General: Page

To open the Page dialog: from the menu, select Style→General...→Page.

This dialog allows you to adjust the space above and below systems, staves, lyrics, and vertical frames; and between the score and the top/bottom page margins. You can also control the display of key signatures, time signatures and clefs.

Distance to page margins

• Music top margin: The distance between the top staff line of the first staff on the page and the top page margin.
• Music bottom margin: The distance between the bottom staff line of the last staff on the page and the bottom page margin.

Distance between staves

• Staff distance: The space between staves which are not part of a grand staff (see below).
• Grand staff distance: The space between staves that share the same instrument—such as the piano, organ, or those of a guitar staff/tab pair.

Note: To alter the space above one particular staff see Extra distance above staff (Staff properties).

Distance between systems

• Min. system distance: The minimum distance allowed between one system and the next.
• Max. system distance: The maximum distance allowed between one system and the next.

Lyrics Margins

• Lyrics top margin: The height of the margin above the top lyrics line (in a system).
• Lyrics bottom margin: The height of the margin underneath the bottom lyrics line (in a system).
• Lyrics line height: The distance between lyrics line (in a system), expressed as a percentage of the line height associated with the lyrics text style.

Vertical frame margins

• Vertical frame top margin: The default margin height above a vertical frame.
• Vertical frame bottom margin: The default margin height below a vertical frame.

Last system fill threshold

• If the last system is longer than this percentage of the page width, it gets stretched to fill that width.

Clefs and key signatures

• Create clef for all systems: Untick this box to prevent a clef from automatically displaying at the start of any system except the first.
• Create key signature for all systems: Untick this box to prevent a key signature from automatically displaying at the start of any system except the first.

Ticking the following boxes, allows the display of courtesy elements at the end of systems:

• Create courtesy time signatures:
• Create courtesy key signatures
• Create courtesy clefs

General: Header, Footer, Numbers

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Header, Footer, Numbers.

You can show the content of a score's meta tags (see Score information) or show page numbers in a header or footer for your score. To create a header or footer for a score with linked parts, make sure the main score is in the active tab. To create a header or footer for an individual part, that part needs to be the active tab.

If you hover with your mouse over the Header or Footer text region, a list of macros will appear, showing their meaning, as well as the existing meta tags and their content.

You can create different Headers and Footers for even and odd pages, such as putting page numbers on the right for odd-numbered pages and on the left for even-numbered pages.

You can also edit whether and how often measure numbers appear.

General: System

Open from the menu: Style→General...→ System.

This dialog allows you to:

• Set the distance between system brackets or braces and the start barlines.
• Set the width of system brackets and braces.

See also Brackets.

General: Measure

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General: Barlines

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Barlines.

• Control whether to show barlines at the beginning of a staff or multiple staves.
• Scale barlines to staff size affects "small" staves only. See Barline adjustment possibilities (external link) for details.
• Control proportion of thickness and distance within double barlines, including repeat barlines.

General: Notes

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Notes.

This page can also be accessed direct from the score by right-clicking on any note and selecting "Style…" Here you can adjust the distance and thickness of note-related objects (stems, ledger lines, dots, accidentals). Changing these would be unusual.

General: Clefs

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Clefs.

You can choose between Serif and Standard clef for your tablature sheet.

General: Arpeggios

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Arpeggios.

Here you can change the thickness, spacing and hook height of the following arpeggio and strum symbols:

Changes to these properties would be unusual.

General: Beams

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Beams.

General: Slurs/Ties

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Slurs/Ties.

General: Sizes

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Sizes.

Sets the proportional size of "small" and grace notes, as well as small staves and clefs. Changing this would be unusual.

General: Hairpins, Volta, Ottava

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Hairpins, Volta, Ottava.

The button returns the setting to the original value.

General: Pedal, Trill

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Pedal, Trill.

General: Chord Symbols, Fretboard Diagrams

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Chord Symbols, Fretboard Diagrams.

This section allows you to adjust the format and positioning of chord symbols and Fretboard diagrams.

Appearance: Chose a default chord symbol style—Standard, Jazz or Custom.

Note Spelling: Chose the spelling convention for chord symbols and whether to use capital or small letters.

Positioning:

• Default vertical position: The default vertical distance in space units (sp.) between a newly-applied chord symbol and the music staff. Negative values may be used.
• Distance to fretboard diagram: The distance (in sp. units) from a chord symbol to a fretboard diagram when both are applied to the same location on a staff. This value overrides the above "Default vertical position" setting. The user can chose to place a chord symbol below a fretboard diagram by entering a negative value.
• Minimum chord spacing: The minimum space to allow between chord symbols.
• Maximum barline distance: Increases the distance between the final chord symbol in a measure and the following barline. You may wish to adjust this value if there is a recurring problem in the score with overlap between the final chord symbol in one measure and the following chord symbol.

Capo: Enter the number of the capo position at which you want to display substitute chords, in brackets, for all chord symbols in the score.

Fretboard diagrams:

• Default vertical position: the distance in sp. units from a newly applied fretboard diagram to a staff. A negative value may be used.
• Scale: Increase or decrease the size of the fretboard diagram in the score.
• Fret offset number font size: Increase or decrease the size of a fret number displayed next to a diagram.
• Position Left/Right: Display fret number to the left or right of the fretboard diagram.
• Barre line thickness: Make barre lines in fretboard diagrams thicker or thinner.

General: Figured Bass

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Figured Bass.

Options about figured bass font, style and alignment.
See also Figured bass

General: Articulations, Ornaments

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Articulations, Ornaments.

Position of articulation with respect to the notes and staves

General: Accidentals

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Accidentals.

Options about naturals at key signature changes

General: Tuplets

Open from the menu: Style→General...→Tuplets.

Apply and OK buttons

By pressing the Apply button you can see how the changes you have made in the dialogs affect the score without closing the window. Press OK to save your changes to the score and close the window.

Apply to all parts in one go

When in a part tab while changing layout and formatting, you can use the Apply to all Parts button to apply all changes (either in Layout→Page Settings.... or Style→General...) to apply the new settings to all parts in just one click.

Save/Load style

It is easy to transfer a complete set of styles (all General Style settings, all text styles, and page settings) from one score to the other using the Save/Load Style functions.

To save a customized style:

1. Go to Style→Save Style....
2. Name and save the style file (the default folder is set in your Asetukset). Styles are stored as *.mss files.