copying and pasting just lyrics
How do I copy and past just the lyrics from the soprano part to the tenor part? The video assumes I want to copy the lyrics and the melody.
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Lyrics are one of the weak points of MuseScore. The only copy and paste functionality is to copy from an external text file and paste into lyrics in MuseScore. You can also copy and paste melody plus lyrics, but if you subsequently change any of the durations, it blows the lyrics away. One way to generate different vocal parts with the same lyrics is to write one of them, copy and paste it to the others, and then move the pitches only with the mouse. Anything else blows out the lyrics.
-- J.S.
Has an issue been filed for this?
I've attached a sample if it hasn't:
1. Open attached score.
2. Drag-select the lyrics of 'Lyrics'.
3. Copy.
4. Select the first note of 'No Lyrics'.
5. Paste.
Desired result: Lyrics paste onto notes.
Actual result: Nothing is pasted.
For examples without the same notes, I'm unsure if this would work.
Using MuseScore 1.1 and 2.0 Nightly Build (5025) - Mac 10.6.8.
In reply to Has an issue been filed for by chen lung
Pretty easy this would be if I understood how you 'drag-select' the lyrics. Selecting with a pointer is not possible and with select first-shift select last only the last word is selected.
How ?
In reply to Pretty easy this would be if by rogganet
Drag-select may have been the best way to select lyrics 5+ years ago when the above was posted (!), but luckil,y there are better ways now.
First, drag-select requires use of shift. Shift and drag will draw a rectangle and select what's in it. But it's often pretty awkward to get just what you want.
The better way to select a set of lyrics is to first select the range itself normally - eg, click one note,m shift+click another to select the whole range - then right click a lyric and use Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection.
There are other ways as well, but this is the easiest I think.
In reply to Drag-select may have been the by Marc Sabatella
OK I can do this much. I select a bunch of bars as you said, I get a blue box around EVERYTHING. Then I "right" click one lyric and say Select all similar in Range. Good. Now only the lyrics are blue. That's what I want. Lyrics. Nothing else. Now what I want to do is drag all the lyrics down a bit all at once. Everything I've tried has resulted in either going back where I was or selecting only the one lyric and wasting all my selection work. After I've selected it, HOW CAN I DRAG IT ALL DOWN TOGETHER?
In reply to OK I can do this much. I… by Tixrus
YOU CAN'T DRAG MORE THAN ONE AT A TIME. To move them all at once, use the inspector. Everything selected will have the offset you enter into the x and y values.
In reply to OK I can do this much. I… by Tixrus
This thread about an older version of MuseScore was about copy and paste, not moving things.
Normally you should not need to be adjusting lyrics manually - they should already be well aligned and avoiding other elements by the amounts given in your style settings. So if you want a different amount of clearance, better to change the style settings than to waste time manually adjusting things (which actually won't work anyhow because of the automatic alignment).
If you need further assistance, please start a new thread and attach the score you are having trouble with, so we can understand and assist better.
In reply to This thread about an older… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, the original question was about copying the lyrics from one song and pasting them into another. I wondered for a long time why anyone would ever want to do that, or if there's even a case in which it might work. At last, I found an example, attached....... ;-)
In reply to Yes, the original question… by John Sprung
To be clear, copying lyrics from one score and pasting to another works perfectly well, exactly the same as copying from one section to another within the same score. Just select the lyrics you want to copy, Ctrl+C, click the note you want to paste, Ctrl+V. As long as the rhythms match, you're good. This has been the case sinc the release of 2.0 back in 2015. Easiest way to select lyrics is usually to select a range (click one measure, shift+click another), then right-click a syllable, Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection - again, this has not changed since 2015.
In reply to To be clear, copying lyrics… by Marc Sabatella
Well, then, I guess the April Fool's joke didn't work all that well....
The example score was supposed to be the Star Spangled Banner lyrics fitted to Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine..... ;-)
-- J.S.
In reply to Well, then, I guess the… by John Sprung
Went right over my head :-) I was wondering about that melody, but didn't really think through what it was.
In reply to Drag-select may have been the by Marc Sabatella
That's great!
In reply to Pretty easy this would be if by rogganet
My own ignorance is have found...
Drag select apparently requires Ctrl+Shift to use the mouse.
It is then a line by line thing, but still a hell of a lot simpler than typing the whole stuff 3-8 times....
THX!
In reply to My own ignorance is have by rogganet
See my response above. The method I described is *far* simpler.
In reply to See my response above. The by Marc Sabatella
So :
' right click a lyric and use Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection'
I never knew any operation could be performed on part of a selection. Need to have a look,
but that indeed seems a great improvement.
The one advantage of doing it line by line, which this method of course would also be fine for, is that voices generally don't sing exactly the same lyrics. Selecting the entire voice to copy to another would only work if the rythm and the words are exactly the same?
In reply to So : ' right click a lyric by rogganet
The rhythms don't have to be *exactly* the same, but the assignment of syllables to notes does have to be. So for example, the source might have two half notes and the destination might have a dotted half and a quarter, and it will still work.
So yes, when copying and pasting lyrics, you will generally need to do it in smaller batches rather than a whole piece at once, if there are places where the content of the voices is different. Line by line is one way, but in many cases you'll be able to copy more than a line at a time without problems, so the range selection method is especially good. Also see the "More" option in the Select menu, which gives you a dialog allowing you to select by staff, by system, by voice, by verse, etc.
What I have done to work around this is:
1. Create a new "instrument" for the part you want to add lyrics to, in this case the tenor.
2. Copy the notes from the old tenor part into the new one.
3. Copy the soprano part into the original tenor part. This will copy both notes and lyrics.
4. Copy the new tenor part back to the original tenor part. This will overwrite the notes back to what they should be, but more importantly, it will leave the lyrics there.
5. Delete the instrument you created in step 1.
I find this much less painful than re-entering a bunch of notes or lyrics.
- John
In reply to There is a workaround by jford143
Hmm, how about making this a plugin?
In reply to Hmm, how about making this a by Jojo-Schmitz
Copying notes is not really an option with the plugin framework. But what a clever solution to the basic problem of copying lyrics!
In reply to Copying notes is not really by Marc Sabatella
that's a pity, really