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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.


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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"

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)
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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.
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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 by 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"

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" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Open Score)

SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis-1.svg
  • 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)

SVG Jesu, Rex Admirabilis Closed-1.svg

New features:

  • Creating a Closed score

Review topic:

Baroque-Era Vocal Music in MuseScore

Example 1: Figured bass in "Dido’s Lament" by Henry Purcell

SVG Dido's Lament FB-1.svg

New feature:

  • Figured Bass – Command + G

Example 2: Roman-numeral analysis in "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
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Example 3: Chord symbols added to "Dido’s Lament" by 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).

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Instrumental music in MuseScore

Baroque-Era instrumental music

Example 1: 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)

Features reviewed:

  • Notes
  • Octaves
  • Chords
  • Voices/Layers



Other refinements

  • Parentheses (showing accidentals from the palette)
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  • 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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Example 2: Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), first phrase

SVG Minuet in G (beginning)-1.svg

New features:

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

Example 3: Minuet in G (Christian Petzold), second phrase

SVG Minuet in G (end)-1.svg

Features reviewed:

  • 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]

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

  • 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
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  • New: System Text, choose Text from the Palette
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  • Triplets = Add -> Tuplets -> Triplet (or command/control + 3)
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Example 2: Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13 (“Pathétique”) Second Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven

SVG Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13 Pathétique -1.svg


  • 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

SVG Beethoven 9th Melody-1.svg


  • Hint: "Repeat & Jumps" from the Palette

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

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


  • 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

SVG 3hungarian-1.svg

  • 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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