'Blank' staff paper (no instrument specified in left margin)
Hello,
I'd like to be able to create a new score either without having to specify an instrument at all, or at least without the instrument name being repeated before every staff in the left margin.
Basically I want 'blank' staff paper (I'd even like to know if it'd be possible to remove the indentation of the first staff on the first page). I'm relatively new to musescore, happy to have finally found a productive, free, composition/notation software application, and I would really appreciate the help.
Thank you in advance!
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Just change the instrument name to be blank - right click a staff, select staff properties, clear the names.
In reply to Just change the instrument by Marc Sabatella
So simple!
Thank you.
Here's a template I made. On mine, there is one measure on the second page, which works perfectly. I print the first page only, and it's a sheet of blank staff paper. No clefs, no bar lines, just staves.
In reply to Template by newsome
Now that's blank!
Very helpful; thank you!
In reply to Template by newsome
How did you eliminate the rests? ???
In reply to How did you eliminate the by jotape1960
You can't really eliminate the rests, but you can make them invisible. If you open that score in MuseScore and check Show Invisible from the View menu, you'll see that there actually are rests there.
Is there a way to make this last measure span the entire page?
In reply to Is there a way to make this by belinda.thom
Yes. Style > General > Page > Last system threshold > 0%
In reply to Yes. Style > General > Page > by [DELETED] 5
that did the trick! thanks!
In reply to Is there a way to make this by belinda.thom
And also to add a clef to the front of each line?
In reply to And also to add a clef to the by belinda.thom
? That's the normal state of affairs. The whole point of the "blank staff paper" was to not have this. If you want clefs, just create a score normally.
In reply to ? That's the normal state of by Marc Sabatella
i want clefs but no bar lines, etc. so that i can draw in (by hand with a pencil) during lessons on the fly or use the document for students to practice notating notes upon. purely for pedagogical purposes.
In reply to i want clefs but no bar by belinda.thom
Ah, OK. In that case, right click the staff, staff properties, and choose clefs but make sure barlines and time signature are turned off. Or, if starting with the provided score, turn back on display of invisible elements, right click a clef, Select / All similar elements, then press "V" to make visible again.
In reply to Ah, OK. In that case, right by Marc Sabatella
OK ... so attaching my current score example and a screen shot. When I click on staff properties this stuff already appears to be selected. Note: I got this example by borrowing from the one attached earlier in this thread. I don't really understand what it does or how it was created. But it seems to have a "Flute" instrument, etc, but doesn't show any clefs, key signatures, bars, rests, etc.
Thanks,
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In reply to OK ... so attaching my by belinda.thom
Ah. It looks the one newsome created actually does have clefs, barlines, and time signatures—they're just invisible. Go to the View menu and check "Show Invisible" to see that they're really there. You can make the clefs visible by secondary-clicking one, choosing Select -> All Similar Elements, and pressing V.
In reply to Ah. It looks the one newsome by Isaac Weiss
that did the trick; thanks.
In reply to Ah. It looks the one newsome by Isaac Weiss
So how did newsome make these things invisible to being with? I'm having trouble finding the right inspector or whatever and trying to understand a bit more about how this score was created.
In reply to Ah. It looks the one newsome by Isaac Weiss
So how did newsome make these things invisible to being with? I'm having trouble finding the right inspector or whatever and trying to understand a bit more about how this score was created.
In reply to So how did newsome make these by belinda.thom
You make things invisible the same way you make them visible again - either press "V" or toggle the "Visible" option in the Inspector.
In reply to So how did newsome make these by belinda.thom
The Inspector (https://musescore.org/en/node/38491#categories) is a new feature in MuseScore 2. Given the date on the comments, the original score is from 2011, and was created with a version of MuseScore that didn't have the Inspector. Back then, visibility was controlled by a context menu option. Nowadays its controlled by the checkbox in the Inspector. These pictures show how something would be made invisible in 1.3 and in 2.0.
In reply to The Inspector by Isaac Weiss
Wow, a long dormant thread has come back to life!
Yes Zack, that's exactly what I did. I right-clicked on certain properties and set them invisible in the context menu. I'm not sure if this blank sheet was made in version 1.3 or even earlier (maybe 0.9.6 or 0.9.5), but it's good to see that it still works four years later in 2.0.
As an aside, I figured out how to open the inspector and uncheck the "Visible" box to set things invisible in 2.0, but I didn't know about just hitting "V" until I read it in this thread. I consider myself a MuseScore master, but I learn new things that it will do all the time.
In reply to Wow, a long dormant thread by newsome
Well, it could be better for 2.0. ;-) There is the fact of the last measure at the bottom of the page (though the "Last system fill threshold" style option is not new in MuseScore 2), and manually making clefs, barlines, and key signatures invisible is less clean than simply turning them off in Staff Properties. But thank you for sharing it in the first place so long ago. It's clearly been useful to people.