Apply Style Settings to Multiple Files

• Oct 14, 2021 - 20:29

Hello Everyone,
I have a large work that is completed and am making final edits.
It is four movements and each movement is its own file/document. I would like to keep them all separate, but to all have the same Style and Page Settings.

I've considered making a template and copy/pasting, but there are meter changes and other things that get messed up when doing that. Some movements have different instrumentation (mostly in percussion and doubled woodwinds), and with so much music it's more work that way than manually going in and changing all of the settings for each movement.

I made the mistake of going through the piece and microscopically aligning hairpins, dynamics, text, slurs, etc. which will change again after applying new scaling and layout settings.

  • Is there a way to apply Style and Page Settings to multiple files all at once?

What's the best workflow for this in the future so I can learn less from mistakes and have to redo so many things? I know I've been doing things in the wrong order.

Thanks!

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• Oct 14, 2021 - 20:53

Are you using a style sheet? See the Handbook section Load / Save style:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/layout-and-formatting#save-and-load…

With one movement or one piece: set all the desired style and positioning of dynamics, tempo and other instructions, using Format > Style... > Page / Text Styles / Dynamics / Hairpin etc. etc.

Then you can save a style sheet with Format > Save Style, and later apply that same style sheet to any subsequent movement or piece with Format > Load Style. But you do have to apply the style sheet individually to each score - unless someone else can suggest a clever command-line solution for running the style sheet against a list of MSCZ files?

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