Musescore vs. Finale PrintMusic vs. Sibelius First, and Scanning Abilities

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There are definitely ways of entering music in MuseScore which speed things up.  I’ve just copied in a four page piece, transposed it up a fourth for lap harp, and put in a few changes, in a fairly short time.  You use letters and numbers for entering notes, and since music is based on repetitive figures, you can do a lot of copying and pasting, including pasting a figure and then moving the pitch up or down a bit and perhaps changing a note or two.  Although it threw a hissyfit when I copied a section which kept changing between 3/4 and 4/4 without putting the correct time signature changes into the blank measures before pasting into them, so I won’t do that again.  It’s an Andres piece, so involves various less common techniques, different note heads and so forth, but to be honest I haven’t written them all out in detail as I know it well enough not to need “sons xylo” or “sons pinces” written over every single phrase it applies to.  I still haven’t worked out how to put accented letters into the text, though.

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Although I would love to know how to put in lever changes in MuseScore so that they look like the way Anne-Marie O’Farrell does it.  Has anyone figured that out yet?

 

Edit: I think I may be onto something with that.  You need to have Voice 4 available, which it usually is.  Use Voice 4, make sure it’s a black undotted notehead (e.g. a crotchet or quaver), put it in place, and delete the rests.  Make sure you have the Inspector panel visible, then select Voice 4 only and you can edit them as a group.  The first thing you want to do is tick “stemless”.  I am currently experimenting with different colours vs. differently shaped noteheads.  I’ll get back to you later, but here is the one I’m working on at the moment.

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