Instant MuseScore

Learn to create beautiful scores and quality sheet music with this popular, free music composition software

Overview

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
• Enhance your musical scores with articulations, text, and lyrics
• Engrave your music and extract parts skilfully
• Playback, print, and export your music to an audio file

In Detail

MuseScore is a free and Libre music notation program, suitable for everyone from music students to professionals. In recent years, MuseScore has established itself as one of the leading score-writers for those looking to take the quality of their sheet music to the next level. From large-scale orchestral works to short piano/vocal songs, MuseScore makes the process easy so you can focus on the music instead of the technology.

Instant MuseScore takes readers through the process of notating music in a simple and straightforward manner. Starting with the basics and adding tips to our toolbox as we go, we learn to utilize the most important features of MuseScore. Instant MuseScore will help you become familiar with the tools that you will need to make great music whether or not you have used music notation software before.

This book will introduce you to the key features of MuseScore, and shows you how to typeset very complicated scores while steering clear of some common trouble spots.

You will start by understanding the most notable features that will help you to enter music into MuseScore. Using these as a base, we will explore additional techniques necessary for more complex projects, and learn how to give your score a professional touch. Towards the end of the book, you will be confident enough to create quality sheet music and natural-looking scores with an unbeatable software package.

What you will learn from this book

• Enter notes and rhythms into MuseScore
• Insert articulations, dynamics, and markings
• Modify the key signature, time signature, and tempo
• Transpose passages and deal with the transposing instrument
• Extract parts for individual musicians
• Format your music cleanly to give it a professional touch
• Print your music and save it as an audio file
• Add several verses of lyrics to your score for chorus or solo voice
• Write passages using chord-symbol notation

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. Instant MuseScore is written in an easy-to follow format, packed with illustrations that will help you get started with this music composition software.

Who this book is written for

This book is for musicians who would like to learn how to notate music digitally with MuseScore. Readers should already have some knowledge about musical terminology; however, no prior experience with music notation software is necessary.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Instant MuseScore