sForzato won't work?
Hey guys. I have been a Musescore user for over 3 years and for some reason sForzato won't work. Is there a reason for this?
Other than manually importing dynamics and rendering them invisible, is there a way around this?
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You mean it worked the past 3 years and all of a sudden stopped working?
Hmm, don't think so: MuseScore up to 1.3 doesn't have an Sforzato in its Dynamics Palette.
2.0 will have it.
Ah, you mean the sfozato articulation. See http://musescore.org/en/node/19026#comment-100961
In reply to You mean it worked the past 3 by Jojo-Schmitz
MuseScore 1.3 does have a sforzato in the dynamic palette. Press L to display it.
In reply to MuseScore 1.3 does have a by [DELETED] 5
Oh, so I use MuseScore sind almost 5 years and haven't come accross this yet.
Lern something new every day :-) ...
And this triggered Shoichi (and me) to add this to the handbook...
Articles Palette of dynamic (L) are not active. Must adjust their values manually (right click on and set to the desired value.)
In reply to Articles Palette of dynamic by Miré
You mean they don't affect playback, velocity, like the one from the 'normal' palette?
For me they doo, pppppp sets velocity to 1, while the 'regulra' ppp sets it to 16, pppp to 10, ppppp to 5, ffff-ffffff sets it to 127, while the 'regular' ppp sets it to 126. For all notes following, up to the next dynamics.
sf, sfz ... indeed don't change anything though, they are supposed to change only a single note and this is not (yet) implemented in MuseScore
In reply to You mean they don't affect playback? by Jojo-Schmitz
Sforzato still doesn't change anything in playback? Is there a way to change the dynamics in a score so only one note plays louder? I've tinkered with it, but the dynamics include everything in that note value above and below. The melody or sforzato doesn't play louder....
In reply to Sforzato still doesn't change by judeeylander
Velocity is set to 0. Must adjust their values manually in inspector (F8).
![Nuances Sf.png]( "Nuances Sf.png")
In reply to Velocity is set to 0. Must by [DELETED] 16875981
I'm using MuseScore 2.1.0. It doesn't show the same Inspector as yours. And F8 brings up something about screens I don't understand....
In reply to I'm using MuseScore 2.1.0. It by judeeylander
You are on windows, so the inspector window that was open was the one Shoichi was talking about. Both he and I thought you were referring to the sfz dynamic.
Sforzato marks do sound louder on my computer. Upload the actual file so we can see what's going on.
In reply to You are on windows, so the by mike320
Here is my score. I can't hear the louder sforzatos, except for the last ones in the score. Maybe because there are no other notes playing?
In reply to Here is my score. I can't by judeeylander
Hi all, @judeeylander, Manual adjustment of the 'Sforzato' (>). From Inspector set the velocity of the notes concerned.
In reply to Hi all, @judeeylander, Manual by Shoichi
Thank you, Shoichi! Something new again. I got it. :)
Different note velocity settings for different dynamics. Plus only change velocity settings on melody notes, not whole chords, in first line.
Wonderful! Thanks again!
In reply to Here is my score. I can't by judeeylander
I disagree about the sforzatos not being heard. While there is no huge difference between those and normal notes, there is a slight emphasis on the marked notes.
I'm guessing that you entered this song from scratch (since your previous picture has only part of the song). In the music xml that underlies the MuseScore score there is a setting for sforzato among other articulations that tells how much to emphasize that note. In your score this is set at 120%. As expected, it is more noticeable when the volume is ff rather than mf or p.
In reply to I disagree about the by mike320
I am on the music team of Distributed Proofreaders. We put public domain books online through Project Gutenberg. All my music is entered from scratch. I am recreating clear scores and sound files for ebooks.
I adjusted the velocity on marked notes to where I thought the sound was most appropriate. I am not familar with the underlying music xml. Where do I find it in MuseScore?
In reply to I am on the music team of by judeeylander
An mscz file is actually a zip file that contains a file called name.mscx where name is the name of the mscz file. You can open the mscx file in any xml editor, the are plenty of free ones online. I did a search in the file for sforzato and the velocity is set at 120 (120% of velocity) and the time stretch is 100 (100% of the length of the note). You can change the velocity if you like and open the mscz file in MuseScore and it will be adjusted accordingly. Note that it will affect all sforzatos in the file. If any are too strong you can adjust the velocity of individual notes down. This might be preferable to adjusting individual notes up. It depends on how many affected notes there are. When you are done, you can save the file and it will once again revert to a mscz file.
If you find you constantly want to change every score, you can change the instruments.xml file the same way and use that file for creating new scores rather than the default instruments.xml. Each instrument in instruments.xml can have its own velocity for each articulation. Look through the file and you will see the format for adding them.
Another option is to change the sforzato on a piano (or any other) score and save it as a template. All scores made from that template will follow its settings. This is the route I would take if I do a lot of the same instruments.
In reply to An mscz file is actually a by mike320
Thanks, Mike. New learning curve for me. I'll spend some time today exploring xml, at least to gain familiarity with xml and what it can do.
This comes from Distributed Proofreaders Music Guidelines. I've never explored it because MuseScore is so awesome and easy to use! <3
MusicXML (.xml) is fast becoming the primary Internet standard for music notation code. It is readable and/or writable by nearly 200 music programs, enabling music notation to be widely shared — which is ideal for PG e-books.
A MusicXML file contains all the musical and text elements in a music piece. The code can be viewed in any text editor and most browsers, and there are plug-ins allowing browsers to play/display MusicXML files as music. (Theoretically, a MusicXML file can also be created from scratch in a text editor, but it would be a laborious process.)
MusicXML
MusicXML (.xml) is fast becoming the primary Internet standard for music notation code. It is readable and/or writable by nearly 200 music programs, enabling music notation to be widely shared — which is ideal for PG e-books.
A MusicXML file contains all the musical and text elements in a music piece. The code can be viewed in any text editor and most browsers, and there are plug-ins allowing browsers to play/display MusicXML files as music. (Theoretically, a MusicXML file can also be created from scratch in a text editor, but it would be a laborious process.)
You can find more information on MusicXML here and here.
For a sample e-book with links to MusicXML files, see Principles of Orchestration.
In reply to Thanks, Mike. New learning by judeeylander
This is a little confusing. To try to clear it up somewhat: the official "MusicXML" is supported by MuseScore as a third-party format, but MuseScore's own format (which Mike was referring to) is based on a *different* XML system.
In reply to This is a little confusing. by Isaac Weiss
Which XML system is MuseScore based on? That's the one I want to become familiar with....
In reply to Which XML system is MuseScore by judeeylander
Its own, and it's not documented, unfortunately. But you may be able to figure it out for yourself by studying an example, which you can extract from an MSCZ file as Mike described above , or create by saving as MSCX instead of MSCZ.
In reply to Its own, and it's not by Isaac Weiss
Ummmmm.... Now it's REALLY over my head! LOL! I'll tinker with the one mentioned in Distributed Proofreaders to get an idea of how XMLs kinda work. Then I'm back to using MuseScore for the next score. And the one after that. And the one after that....
You are ALL so HELPFUL!! Many thanks for all your labors!
In reply to Ummmmm.... Now it's REALLY by judeeylander
You're extremely welcome! And thank you for your many insightful questions. As you continue to gain more familiarity with the program, please don't hesitate to let us know about limitations you come up against—your perspective working for Gutenberg may push MuseScore in new directions that require improvements.