Musescore Supplement

Musescore Examples: These exercises require basic knowledge of encoding, then each exercise includes a new tool or two each!

Vocal Music in MuseScore

Early Vocal Music in MuseScore

Example 1: Chant "Ubi caritas"

Tools you need:

• Choosing an instrument (voice – which may or may not automatically add the optional vocal tenor clef on the clef)
• If not, use “clefs” from the palettes. (click the original clef then double click the treble clef)

• 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: 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”)