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Musescore Examples: These exercises require [[MuseScore|basic knowledge of encoding]]. Each exercise includes a new tool or two!  The MuseScore "Play" function is also recommended.
 
  
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=Using MuseScore in practical academic studies=
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These examples supplement the initial exercises designed the [https://wiki.ccarh.org/wiki/MuseScore MuseScore] unit in Music 253/CS 275A at Stanford University, where our interest is in musical data translation. Given the unusual circumstances we face in the 2020-2021 academic year, Christina Kim has assembled these examples to show the program's possibilities in music theory, practice, and undergraduate studies generally.
  
 
=Vocal Music in MuseScore=
 
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==Early Vocal Music==  
 
==Early Vocal Music==  
  
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===Example 1: Chant, "Ubi caritas" ===
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===Example 1. Chant, "Ubi caritas" (anonymous)===
  
 
[[File:SVG Ubi Caritas-1.svg|777px]]
 
[[File:SVG Ubi Caritas-1.svg|777px]]
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* <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  
 
* <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  
 
* <i>Method 2</i>: 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)  
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[[File:Clef.png|none|225px]]
 
[[File:Clef.png|none|225px]]
  
 
<i>User comments</i>:
 
<i>User comments</i>:
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* I prefer using ¼ for the time signature for the sake of spacing.  
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* Using ¼ for the time signature produces better spacing.  
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* 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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* To produce "ummeasured" chant notation, make the time signature, stems, and the bar lines invisible by selecting <i>All -> staff/part properties -> advanced style properties</i>.  
  
 
[[File:Screen Shot 2020-07-08 at 11.23.18 PM.png|500px|right]]
 
[[File:Screen Shot 2020-07-08 at 11.23.18 PM.png|500px|right]]
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* <i>Review items</i>: 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”]]
  
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===Example 2. Two-voice organum: "Kyrie, Cunctipotens genitor" ===
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===Example 2: Two-voice organum: "Kyrie, Cunctipotens genitor" ===
 
  
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[[File:SVG Cunctipotens genitor-1.svg|650px]]
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[[File:SVG Cunctipotens genitor-1.svg|610px]]
 
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* Lyrics  
 
* Lyrics  
 
* Chant (<i>Hint</i>: Staff/Part Properties)
 
* Chant (<i>Hint</i>: Staff/Part Properties)
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===Example 3: Two-voice polyphony: Excerpt from the "Duo Agnus Dei II" of the ''Missa de Beata Virgine'' by Josquin des Prez ===
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===Example 3. Two-voice polyphony: Excerpt from the "Duo Agnus Dei II" of the ''Missa de Beata Virgine'' (Josquin des Prez) ===
  
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[[File:SVG Agnus Dei II from Missa De beata virgine (excerpt)-1.svg|none|700px]]
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[[File:SVG Agnus Dei II from Missa De beata virgine (excerpt)-1.svg|none|640px]]
  
  
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* Slurs
 
* Slurs
  
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===Example 4: Secular monophony: "Sumer is Icumen in" ===
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===Example 4. Secular monophony: "Sumer is Icumen in" (anonymous)===
  
 
[[File:SVG Sumer is icumen in-1-1.svg|none|640px]]
 
[[File:SVG Sumer is icumen in-1-1.svg|none|640px]]
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* Rests
 
* Rests
  
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===Example 5: Renaissance polyphony: "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Open Score) ===
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===Example 5. Renaissance polyphony: "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina), open-position score ===
  
 
[[File:SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis-1.svg|none|650px]]
 
[[File:SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis-1.svg|none|650px]]
  
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<i>New features</i>:
 
* Choosing Instruments: Choir – Soprano, Alto, and Baritone  
 
* Choosing Instruments: Choir – Soprano, Alto, and Baritone  
 
* Taking advantage of same rhythmic values
 
* Taking advantage of same rhythmic values
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===Example 6: Renaissance polyphony: "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Close Score) ===
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===Example 6.  Renaissance polyphony: "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina), closed-position score ===
  
  
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[[File:SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis Closed-1.svg|border|675px]]
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[[File:SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis Closed-1.svg|border|625px]]
  
 
<i>New features</i>:
 
<i>New features</i>:
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* Multiple layers. See [[MuseScore|“Voices/Layers”]])
 
* Multiple layers. See [[MuseScore|“Voices/Layers”]])
  
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==Baroque-Era Vocal Music in MuseScore==  
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==Baroque-era vocal music in MuseScore==  
  
  
  
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===Example 1: Figured bass in "Dido’s Lament" by Henry Purcell ===
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===Example 7. Figured bass in "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell) ===
  
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[[File:SVG Dido's Lament FB-1.svg|none|660px]]
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[[File:SVG Dido's Lament FB-1.svg|none|600px]]
  
 
<i>New feature</i>:  
 
<i>New feature</i>:  
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* Figured Bass – Command + G
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* Figured Bass – <i>Command+G</i>
  
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===Example 2: Roman-numeral analysis in "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell) ===
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===Example 8. Roman-numeral analysis figures for "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell) ===
  
  
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[[File:SVG Dido's Lament RNA-1.svg|none|660px]]
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[[File:SVG Dido's Lament RNA-1.svg|none|600px]]
  
 
<i>New feature</i>:
 
<i>New feature</i>:
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* Roman-numeral analysis symbols from the menu - Add -> Text -> Roman Numeral Analysis  
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* Roman-numeral analysis symbols from the menu - <i>Add -> Text -> Roman Numeral Analysis</i>
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[[File:RNAhelp.png|none|300px]]
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[[File:RNAhelp.png|none|280px]]
  
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===Example 3: Chord symbols added to "Dido’s Lament" by Henry Purcell ===
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===Example 9. Chord symbols added for "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell) ===
  
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[[File:SVG Dido's Lament CS-1.svg|none|660px]]
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[[File:SVG Dido's Lament CS-1.svg|none|600px]]
  
  
 
<i>New feature</i>:  
 
<i>New feature</i>:  
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* Chord symbol: Add -> Text -> Chord Symbol  
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* Chord symbol: <i>Add -> Text -> Chord Symbol</i>
 
<small>N.B. The font can be changed so that it recognizes the superscript by changing the appearance from Standard to Jazz in the Style (use Format from the menu).</small>  
 
<small>N.B. The font can be changed so that it recognizes the superscript by changing the appearance from Standard to Jazz in the Style (use Format from the menu).</small>  
  
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[[File:CSlocation.png|none|625px]]
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[[File:CSlocation.png|none|600px]]
  
 
=Instrumental music in MuseScore=
 
=Instrumental music in MuseScore=
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==Baroque-Era instrumental music==  
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==Baroque-era instrumental music==  
  
  
  
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===Example 1: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (J. S. Bach) ===
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===Example 10. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (J. S. Bach) ===
  
  
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<i>New feature</i>:
 
<i>New feature</i>:
 
* Subdivisions of one note (using layers)
 
* Subdivisions of one note (using layers)
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* Shared noteheads
  
 
<i>Features reviewed</i>:
 
<i>Features reviewed</i>:
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* Voices/Layers
 
* Voices/Layers
 
<br></br>
 
<br></br>
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<i>Other refinements</i>
 
<i>Other refinements</i>
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* Parentheses (showing accidentals from the palette)  
 
* Parentheses (showing accidentals from the palette)  
  
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[[File:Screen Shot 2020-08-04 at 9.00.27 PM.png|none|360px]]
 
[[File:Screen Shot 2020-08-04 at 9.00.27 PM.png|none|360px]]
  
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===Example 2: Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), first phrase ===
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===Example 11. Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), first phrase ===
  
  
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<i>New features</i>:
 
<i>New features</i>:
 
* Grace Notes, using palette  
 
* Grace Notes, using palette  
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* Ornaments: add using search for “Ornaments” in the palette box
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* Ornaments: add by searching for “Ornaments” in the palette box
  
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===Example 3: Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), last phrase ===
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===Example 12. Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), last phrase ===
  
  
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===Example 1: Symphony No. 41 in C Major ("Jupiter"), K. 551 (W. A. Mozart), arr. for two pianos] ===
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===Example 13. Symphony No. 41 in C Major ("Jupiter"), K. 551 (W. A. Mozart), arr. for two pianos] ===
  
  
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<i>New features</i>:
 
<i>New features</i>:
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* Add staccato: Shift+S  
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* Add staccato: <i>Shift+S</i>
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* Selecting instruments -> Piano & Piano  
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* Selecting instruments -> <i>Piano & Piano</i>
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* Chossing tempo: (1) choose from the palette, then (2) edit text by double-clicking  
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* Choosing tempo: (1) <i>select</i> from the palette, then (2) <i>edit</i> text by double-clicking  
  
 
<i>Features reviewed</i>:
 
<i>Features reviewed</i>:
 
* Fingerings  
 
* Fingerings  
  
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[[File:Tempo.png|none|250px]]
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[[File:Tempo.png|none|200px]]
  
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* New: System Text, choose Text from the Palette
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* System Text: Choose Text from the Palette
  
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[[File:SystemText.png|none|250px]]
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[[File:SystemText.png|none|200px]]
  
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* Triplets = Add -> Tuplets -> Triplet (or command/control + 3)  
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* Triplets = <i>Add -> Tuplets -> Triplet</i> (or <i>command/control + 3</i>)  
  
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[[File:Tuplets.png|none|250px]]
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[[File:Tuplets.png|none|200px]]
  
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===Example 2: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op.13 (“Pathétique”), second movement (Ludwig van Beethoven) ===
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===Example 14. Piano Sonata No. 8, Op.13 (“Pathétique”), second movement (Ludwig van Beethoven) ===
  
  
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[[File:SVG Piano Sonata No. 8, Op.13 Pathétique -1.svg|none|700px]]
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[[File:BeethovenPathetiqueSonata.png|500px|thumb|center]]
  
 
<i>New features</i>:
 
<i>New features</i>:
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* Temporary clef change: Drag the clef into the measure (Measure 1 in this case)
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* Temporary clef change: <i>Drag</i> the clef into the measure (Measure 1 in this case)
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* Modify system breaks: Format ->  Add/Remove System Breaks
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* Modify system breaks: Format ->  <i>Add/Remove System Breaks</i>
  
 
<i>Features reviewed</i>:
 
<i>Features reviewed</i>:
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* Tempo setting
 
* Tempo setting
  
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===Example 3: Melody from Symphony No. 9 (Ludwig van Beethoven) ===
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===Example 15. Melody from Symphony No. 9 (Ludwig van Beethoven) ===
  
  
 
[[File:SVG Beethoven 9th Melody-1.svg|none|600px]]
 
[[File:SVG Beethoven 9th Melody-1.svg|none|600px]]
  
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<i>New feature</i>:
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* How to create A, B, endings: <i>Use</i> "Repeat & Jumps" from the palette
  
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* Hint: "Repeat & Jumps" from the Palette
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===Example 16. Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1 (Fryderyk Chopin) ===
  
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===Example 4: Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1 (Fryderyk Chopin) ===
 
  
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[[File:SVG Nocturnes, Op. 9 No. 1-1.svg|none|600px]]
  
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[[File:SVG Nocturnes, Op. 9 No. 1-1.svg|border|600px]]
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<i>New feature</i>:
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* Expanded use of tuplets: For this example <i>adjust the numbers ratio</i> to apply to eighth notes.
  
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==20th-Century instrumental music==
  
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* Hint: Tuplets from before, adjust the numbers of ratio to EIGHTH NOTES.
 
  
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==20th-Century Instrumental Music in MuseScore==
 
  
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===Example 17. "The Peacock" from ''3 Hungarian Folksongs,'' <i>Csík</i> (Béla Bartók) ===
  
  
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===Example 1: "The Peacock" from''3 Hungarian Folksongs'' from Csík by Béla Bartók ===
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[[File:SVG 3hungarian-1.svg|none|620px]]
  
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<i>New features</i>:
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[[File:SVG 3hungarian-1.svg|border|700px]]
 
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* Review: Repeats & Jumps
 
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* Review: Texts (tempo, expression, staff text, tremolo)
 
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* Review: Tuplets
 
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* Review: Accidentals, Articulations
 
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* Review: Beams
 
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* Review: Dynamics as well as:  
 
 
* New: Crescendo / Decrescendo (Lines from the Palette)  
 
* New: Crescendo / Decrescendo (Lines from the Palette)  
 
* New: Time Signature (Palette)  
 
* New: Time Signature (Palette)  
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* New: Double Dots -> Find the "Basic edited" box on the top left corner, change it to "Advanced"  
 
* New: Double Dots -> Find the "Basic edited" box on the top left corner, change it to "Advanced"  
  
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[[File:Screen Shot 2020-08-04 at 4.18.27 PM.png|border|760px]]
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<i>Features reviewed</i>:
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* Repeats & Jumps
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* Texts (tempo, expression, staff text, tremolo)
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* Tuplets
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* Accidentals, Articulations
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* Beams
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* Dynamics and other modifications available as shown below.
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[[File:Screen Shot 2020-08-04 at 4.18.27 PM.png|none|760px]]
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=Exporting MuseScore files=
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MuseScore files can be saved or exported to *.xml (MusicXML), *.pdf (Portable Document Format), *.png (Portable Network Graphics), and *.svg (Scalable Vector Graphics).
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Most notation formats in current use reliably preserve pitch and rhythmic information but may shed dynamics, ornamentation marks, and lyrics. When we have tested these export formats for the examples above, we had predictable results: those were sometimes missing.

Latest revision as of 22:39, 21 September 2020


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Using MuseScore in practical academic studies

These examples supplement the initial exercises designed the MuseScore unit in Music 253/CS 275A at Stanford University, where our interest is in musical data translation. Given the unusual circumstances we face in the 2020-2021 academic year, Christina Kim has assembled these examples to show the program's possibilities in music theory, practice, and undergraduate studies generally.

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" (anonymous)

SVG Ubi Caritas-1.svg


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)


Clef.png

User comments:

  • Using ¼ for the time signature produces better spacing.
  • To produce "ummeasured" chant notation, make the time signature, stems, and the bar lines invisible by selecting All -> staff/part properties -> advanced style properties.
Screen Shot 2020-07-08 at 11.23.18 PM.png

Screen Shot 2020-07-08 at 11.23.10 PM.png

Example 2. Two-voice organum: "Kyrie, Cunctipotens genitor"

SVG Cunctipotens genitor-1.svg

New feature

  • Spacing (Press Enter)

Review features:

  • Notes
  • Lyrics
  • Chant (Hint: Staff/Part Properties)

Example 3. Two-voice polyphony: Excerpt from the "Duo Agnus Dei II" of the Missa de Beata Virgine (Josquin des Prez)

SVG Agnus Dei II from Missa De beata virgine (excerpt)-1.svg


Review features:

  • Notes
  • Clef changes
  • Voices/Layers (necessary for writing two parts on one staff)
  • Slurs

Example 4. Secular monophony: "Sumer is Icumen in" (anonymous)

SVG Sumer is icumen in-1-1.svg

New features:

  • Dotted notes & rests
  • Spacing – using “Enter” key

Review features:

  • Notes and Lyrics
  • Rests

Example 5. Renaissance polyphony: "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina), open-position score

SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis-1.svg

New features:

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

Example 6. Renaissance polyphony: "Jesu, Rex admirabilis" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina), closed-position score

SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis Closed-1.svg

New features:

  • Creating a Closed score

Review topic:

Baroque-era vocal music in MuseScore

Example 7. Figured bass in "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell)

SVG Dido's Lament FB-1.svg

New feature:

  • Figured Bass – Command+G

Example 8. Roman-numeral analysis figures for "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell)

SVG Dido's Lament RNA-1.svg

New feature:

  • Roman-numeral analysis symbols from the menu - Add -> Text -> Roman Numeral Analysis


RNAhelp.png


Example 9. Chord symbols added for "Dido’s Lament" (Henry Purcell)

SVG Dido's Lament CS-1.svg


New feature:

  • Chord symbol: Add -> Text -> Chord Symbol

N.B. The font can be changed so that it recognizes the superscript by changing the appearance from Standard to Jazz in the Style (use Format from the menu).

CSlocation.png

Instrumental music in MuseScore

Baroque-era instrumental music

Example 10. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (J. S. Bach)

SVG Brandenburg Concerto No. 3-1.svg


SVG Brandenburg Concerto No. 3-2.svg

New feature:

  • Subdivisions of one note (using layers)
  • Shared noteheads

Features reviewed:

  • Notes
  • Octaves
  • Chords
  • Voices/Layers



Other refinements

  • Parentheses (showing accidentals from the palette)
Accidentals.png
  • Beams (using palette)
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  • Size adjustment, using Format -> Page Settings -> Scaling (e.g. from 1.764mm to 2.364mm)
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Screen Shot 2020-08-04 at 9.00.27 PM.png

Example 11. Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), first phrase

SVG Minuet in G (beginning)-1.svg

New features:

  • Grace Notes, using palette
  • Ornaments: add by searching for “Ornaments” in the palette box

Example 12. Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), last phrase

SVG Minuet in G (end)-1.svg

Features reviewed:

  • Ornaments
  • Chords
  • Voices/layers

Classical/Romantic-era instrumental music

Example 13. Symphony No. 41 in C Major ("Jupiter"), K. 551 (W. A. Mozart), arr. for two pianos]

SVG Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 Jupiter Symphony -1.svg


SVG Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 Jupiter Symphony -2.svg


SVG Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 Jupiter Symphony -3.svg

New features:

  • Add staccato: Shift+S
  • Selecting instruments -> Piano & Piano
  • Choosing tempo: (1) select from the palette, then (2) edit text by double-clicking

Features reviewed:

  • Fingerings
Tempo.png
  • System Text: Choose Text from the Palette
SystemText.png
  • Triplets = Add -> Tuplets -> Triplet (or command/control + 3)
Tuplets.png

Example 14. Piano Sonata No. 8, Op.13 (“Pathétique”), second movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)

BeethovenPathetiqueSonata.png

New features:

  • Temporary clef change: Drag the clef into the measure (Measure 1 in this case)
  • Modify system breaks: Format -> Add/Remove System Breaks

Features reviewed:

  • Fingerings
  • Tempo setting

Example 15. Melody from Symphony No. 9 (Ludwig van Beethoven)

SVG Beethoven 9th Melody-1.svg

New feature:

  • How to create A, B, endings: Use "Repeat & Jumps" from the palette

Example 16. Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1 (Fryderyk Chopin)

SVG Nocturnes, Op. 9 No. 1-1.svg

New feature:

  • Expanded use of tuplets: For this example adjust the numbers ratio to apply to eighth notes.

20th-Century instrumental music

Example 17. "The Peacock" from 3 Hungarian Folksongs, Csík (Béla Bartók)

SVG 3hungarian-1.svg

New features:

  • 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"

Features reviewed:

  • Repeats & Jumps
  • Texts (tempo, expression, staff text, tremolo)
  • Tuplets
  • Accidentals, Articulations
  • Beams
  • Dynamics and other modifications available as shown below.
Screen Shot 2020-08-04 at 4.18.27 PM.png


Exporting MuseScore files

MuseScore files can be saved or exported to *.xml (MusicXML), *.pdf (Portable Document Format), *.png (Portable Network Graphics), and *.svg (Scalable Vector Graphics).

Most notation formats in current use reliably preserve pitch and rhythmic information but may shed dynamics, ornamentation marks, and lyrics. When we have tested these export formats for the examples above, we had predictable results: those were sometimes missing.

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