MuseScore 3 handbook - OSUOSL

1 handbook Downloaded from on Jun 22 2020. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike GETTING STARTED 18. learning MuseScore 18. Tours 18. Getting Started score 18. Video tutorials 19. Other tutorials 19. Videos 19. GET SUPPORT 19. handbook 19. Context help 19. Forums 19. How To's 19. Post a question 19. Report a bug 19. INSTALLATION 20. Installation 20. Initial preferences 20. INSTALL ON WINDOWS 23. Install 23. Start MuseScore 26. Advanced users: Silent or unattended install 26. Uninstall 26. Troubleshooting 26. External links 26. INSTALL ON MACOS 26. Install 26. Uninstall 27. Install with Apple Remote Desktop 27. INSTALL ON LINUX 27. AppImage 27. Step 1 - Download 28. Step 2 - Give execute permission 28. Step 3 - Run it! 28. Installing the AppImage (optional) 28. Using command line options 28. Distribution Packages 29. Debian 29.

2 Fedora 29. KDE neon (bionic) 30. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, 30. External links 31. INSTALL ON CHROMEBOOK 31. Desktop program 31. LANGUAGE, TRANSLATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS 31. Change language 31. Resource Manager 32. Install/uninstall extension 32. Update translations 33. See also 33. External links 33. CHECKING FOR UPDATES 33. Automated update check 33. Check for update 33. See also 33. BASICS 34. CREATE A NEW SCORE 34. Start Center 34. Create new score 34. Enter score information 34. Choose template file 35. Choose instruments (or voice parts) 36. Add instruments 36. Add Staff / Add Linked Staff 36. Change order of instruments 37. Delete an instrument 37. Choose key signature and tempo 37. Choose time signature, pickup measure, and number of measures 38. Adjustments to score after creation 38. Add / delete / adjust measures 38. Add/edit text 39.

3 Change instrument set-up 39. Hide a staff 39. 2. Adjust layout and formatting 39. Templates 39. System templates folder 39. User templates folder 39. See also 39. External links 40. NOTE INPUT 40. Basic note entry 40. Step 1. Select a starting position 40. Step 2. Enter Note Input mode 40. Step 3. Select a duration 40. Step 4. Enter the note or rest 40. Select a note/rest duration 41. Additional durations 41. Input devices 41. Computer keyboard 41. Enter notes /rests 41. Move notes up/down 42. Add accidentals 42. Chords 42. Insert notes 42. Delete notes 42. Keyboard shortcuts 42. Mouse 43. MIDI keyboard 43. Virtual Piano Keyboard 43. Note input modes 44. Coloring of notes outside an instrument's range 44. Small notes /small noteheads 44. Change notes or rests already entered 44. Change duration 44. Change pitch 45. Change voice 45. Change rest to note and vice versa 45.

4 Note properties 45. See also 45. External links 45. EDIT MODE 46. Enter edit mode 46. MuseScore versions and above 46. MuseScore versions prior to 46. Exit edit mode 46. Text 46. Lines 46. notes 46. Offset notes 46. Adjust note stem length 46. Keyboard shortcuts 47. See also 47. PALETTES 47. Single Palette Mode 47. Open/close palette 48. Apply symbols from a palette 48. Customise palettes 48. Palette menu 48. Behavior of applied text and lines 49. See also 49. WORKSPACES 49. Switch between workspaces 50. Docking/undocking 50. Create a new workspace 50. Edit a workspace 50. Save custom workspace 50. See also 50. INSPECTOR 51. Displaying the Inspector 51. What the Inspector does 51. "Reset to style default" and "Set to style" buttons 51. Inspector categories 51. Element 51. Element Group 52. Segment 52. Chord 52. Note 52. Select 52. Beam 52.

5 Clef 53. Articulation 53. fretboard diagram 53. Line 53. Text Line Details 53. Properties dialogs 53. See also 53. 3. MEASURE OPERATIONS 54. Select 54. Single measure 54. Range of measures 54. Insert 54. Insert an empty measure into the score 54. Insert multiple measures 54. Append 54. Append an empty measure to the end of a score 54. Append multiple measures to the end of a score 54. Remove 54. Remove a single measure 54. Remove a range of measures 54. Remove empty trailing measures 54. Delete measure contents 55. Properties 55. Staves 55. Measure duration 55. Other 56. Exclude from measure count 56. Break multi-measure rests 56. Measure number mode 56. Layout stretch 56. Add to measure number 56. Play Count 56. Numbering 56. Split and join 56. Join measures 56. Split a measure 57. External links 57. VOICES 57. How voices are displayed 57.

6 When to use voices 57. How to enter notes in different voices 57. Deleting and hiding rests 58. Restoring deleted rests 58. Exchange voices of notes 58. Move notes to another voice (without swapping) 58. See also 58. External links 58. COPY AND PASTE 58. Summary of commands 59. notes 59. Copy or cut 59. Paste 59. Swap with Clipboard 59. Copy pitch of a single note only 59. Other elements 59. Copy or cut 60. Paste 60. Quick repeat 60. Duplicate 60. Paste half/double duration (version and above) 60. Selection filter 60. See also 61. External links 61. SELECTION MODES 61. Select a single object 61. Select a single note 61. Select a chord 61. Select a single measure 61. Select an overlapping element 61. Select a continuous range of objects 61. 1. Shift selection 61. 2. Shift + click selection 61. Select a range of measures 62. 3. Drag selection 62.

7 4. Select All 62. 5. Select section 62. Select a list of objects 62. Select all similar 62. What selections are useful for 63. See also 63. CONCERT PITCH 63. See also 63. External links 64. UNDO AND REDO 64. VIEWING AND NAVIGATION 64. View menu 64. Show sidebars/panels 64. Zoom in/out 64. Toolbars 65. Show/hide toolbars 65. 4. Customize toolbar area 65. Workspaces 66. Show Status bar 66. Split display 66. Visibility options 66. Mark irregular measures 66. Full screen 66. Page/Continuous View 66. Page View 66. Continuous View 67. Single Page View 67. Side panels 67. Navigation 67. Commands 67. Navigator 67. Timeline 67. Find 68. See also 68. OPEN/SAVE/EXPORT/PRINT 68. Open 68. Save 68. Export 69. Print 69. See also 69. SHARE SCORES ONLINE 69. Create an account 69. Share a score directly from MuseScore 69. Upload a score on 71. Edit a score on 71.

8 Switch to the direct method of updating an online score 71. External links 71. NOTATION 71. BARLINES 71. Change barline type 72. Insert barline 72. Split a measure 72. Custom barlines 72. Connect barlines 72. See also 73. CLEFS 73. Add a clef 73. Add/change clef at the beginning of a measure 73. Add/change a mid-measure clef 73. Remove a clef 74. Courtesy clefs 74. Hide clefs 74. Display clef only in the first measure (for all staves) 74. Display clef only in the first measure (for a particular staff) 74. Hide all clefs in a particular staff 74. KEY SIGNATURES 74. Add a new key signature 75. Add new key signature to all staves 75. Add new key signature to one staff only 75. Replace an existing key signature 75. Replace key signature for all staves 75. Replace key signature for one staff only 75. Remove a key signature 75. Naturals on key signature changes 75.

9 Key signature changes and multi-measure rests 76. Courtesy key signatures 76. Custom key signatures 76. ACCIDENTALS 77. Add accidental 77. Change enharmonic spelling 78. Respell pitches 78. See also 78. External links 78. TIME SIGNATURES 78. Add or replace a time signature 78. Delete a time signature 78. Create a time signature 78. Time signature properties 79. Change default beaming 79. Additive (composite) meters 79. Local time signatures 80. Resize time signature 80. Pickup measures and cadenzas 80. 5. Time signature changes and breaks 80. See also 80. External links 80. ARPEGGIOS AND GLISSANDI 80. Add symbol 80. Adjust dimensions 81. Custom symbols 81. Arpeggios 81. Glissandi (slides) 81. Adjust start and end points of a glissando 81. Wind instrument articulations 82. Slide in/out 82. External links 82. ARTICULATIONS AND ORNAMENTS 82.

10 Articulations 82. Ornaments 82. Add articulation/ornament 83. Add accidental to an ornament 83. Add fermata to a barline 83. Keyboard shortcuts 83. Adjust position 83. Articulation and ornament properties 83. See also 83. External links 84. BENDS 84. Apply a bend 84. Edit bend 84. Text and line properties 84. Bend shape and width 84. Edit graphical display 84. Adjust height 85. Adjust position 85. Custom bends 85. External links 85. BEAMS 85. Adjust automatic note beaming 85. Change beaming of individual notes 85. Beam symbols and their effects 86. Adjust beam angle 86. Adjust beam height 86. Make beam horizontal 86. Adjust feathered beams 87. Local relayout 87. Flip note beam 87. Reset Beam Mode 87. See also 87. External links 87. BRACKETS 88. Add 88. Delete 88. Change 88. Edit 88. Style 88. BREATHS AND PAUSES 88. Add symbol 88. Adjust pause length 89.