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Musescore Examples: These exercises require basic knowledge of encoding. Each exercise includes a new tool or two! The MuseScore "Play" function is also recommended.

Vocal Music in MuseScore

Vocal music often requires the use of more features of notation software than instrumental music does. In this series of examples we represent a broad selection of samples involving features that are surpass those described in beginners' lessons.

Early Vocal Music

Example 1: Chant "Ubi caritas"

Tools you need:

Method 1: Choose an instrument (here use "voice," which may or may not automatically add the optional vocal tenor clef on the clef) OR
Method 2: If not, use “clefs” from the palettes. (click the original clef then double click the treble clef)

User comments:

I prefer using ¼ for the time signature for the sake of spacing.
The time signature, stems, and the bar lines can be made invisible by selecting all -> staff/part properties -> advanced style properties.

Review items: Slurs and texts from the “Octaves, Slurs, Fingerings, and Text”

Example 2: Two-Voice Organum "Kyrie, Cunctipotens genitor"

New: Spacing (Press Enter)
Review: Notes, Lyrics
Review: Chant (Hint: Staff/Part Properties)

Example 3: Two-Voice Polyphony = Excerpt from "Duo Agnus Dei II" / Missa de Beata Virgine by Josquin des Prez

Review: Notes
Review: Clef change
Review: Voices/Layers
Review: Slur

Example 4: Secular Monophony "Sumer is Icumen in"

New: Dotted notes & rests
New: Spacing – using “Enter” key
Review: Notes and Lyrics, Rests

Example 5: Renaissance Polyphony "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Open Score)

Choosing Instruments: Choir – Soprano, Alto, and Baritone
Taking advantage of same rhythmic values

Example 6: Renaissance Polyphony "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Close Score)

Creating a Close Score
Multiple layers (Review: “Voices/Layers”)

Baroque-Era Vocal Music in MuseScore

Example 1: Figured Bass = "Dido’s Lament" by Henry Purcell

New: Figured Bass – Command + G

Example 2: Roman Numeral Analysis = "Dido’s Lament" by Henry Purcell

New: Roman Numeral Analysis from the menu - Add -> Text -> Roman Numeral Analysis

Example 3: Chord Symbols = "Dido’s Lament" by Henry Purcell

New: Add -> Text -> Chord Symbol
The Font can be changed so that it recognizes the superscript by changing the appearance from Standard to Jazz in the Style (Format from the menu)

Instrumental Music in MuseScore

Baroque-Era Instrumental Music in MuseScore

Example 1: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 by J. S. Bach

Reviewing: Notes, Octaves, Chords, Voices/Layers
New: Multiple divisions to one note (through layers), parenthesis (accidentals in the palette)

New: Beams (Palette)

New: Size adjustment - Format -> Page Settings -> Scaling from 1.764mm to 2.364mm

Example 2: Minuet in G by Christian Petzold (Beginning)

New: Grace Notes (Palette)
New: Ornaments (can be added by searching “Ornaments” in the Palette box)

Example 3: Minuet in G by Christian Petzold (End)

Review: Ornaments, chords, voices/layers

Classical/Romantic-Era Instrumental Music in MuseScore

Example 1: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (“Jupiter Symphony”) by W. A. Mozart [Arranged for Two Pianos]

Review: Fingerings
New: Staccato (Shift + S)
New: Instrument Choice -> Piano & Piano
New: Tempo, choose from the Palette and then edit the text by double-clicking

New: System Text, choose Text from the Palette

Triplets = Add -> Tuplets -> Triplet (or command/control + 3)

Example 2: Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13 (“Pathétique”) Second Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven

Review: Fingerings
Review: Tempo Setting
New: Temporary clef, drag the clef into the measure (Measure 1 in this case)
New: Spacing = Format -> Add/Remove System Breaks

Example 3: Melody from Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Hint: "Repeat & Jumps" from the Palette

Example 4: Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1 by Fryderyk Chopin

Hint: Tuplets from before, adjust the numbers of ratio to EIGHTH NOTES.

20th-Century Instrumental Music in MuseScore

Example 1: "The Peacock" from3 Hungarian Folksongs from Csík by Béla Bartók

Review: Repeats & Jumps
Review: Texts (tempo, expression, staff text, tremolo)
Review: Tuplets
Review: Accidentals, Articulations
Review: Beams
Review: Dynamics as well as:
New: Crescendo / Decrescendo (Lines from the Palette)
New: Time Signature (Palette)
New: Look up "arpeggio" from the Palette, add to your Palette
New: Tie = select the note(s), press shift and then + key
New: Double Dots -> Find the "Basic edited" box on the top left corner, change it to "Advanced"

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 <i>Tools you need</i>:
-* Choosing an instrument (voice – which may or may not automatically add the optional vocal tenor clef on the clef)
+* <i>Method 1</i>: Choose an instrument (here use "voice," which may or may not automatically add the optional vocal tenor clef on the clef) OR
-* If not, use “clefs” from the palettes. (click the original clef then double click the treble clef)
+* <i>Method 2</i>: If not, use “clefs” from the palettes. (click the original clef then double click the treble clef)
 [[File:Clef.png|none|225px]]
+<i>User comments</i>:
 * I prefer using ¼ for the time signature for the sake of spacing.
 * The time signature, stems, and the bar lines can be made invisible by selecting all -> staff/part properties -> advanced style properties.
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+[[File:Screen Shot 2020-07-08 at 11.23.18 PM.png|500px|right]]
 [[File:Screen Shot 2020-07-08 at 11.23.10 PM.png|400px]]
-* Review: Slurs and texts from the [[MuseScore|“Octaves, Slurs, Fingerings, and Text”]]
+* <i>Review items</i>: Slurs and texts from the [[MuseScore|“Octaves, Slurs, Fingerings, and Text”]]
 ===Example 2: Two-Voice Organum "Kyrie, Cunctipotens genitor" ===

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