Barbershop arranging in Musescore

• Jul 18, 2024 - 10:23

I am new to MuseScore and want to create Barbershop arrangements. I've read about Barbershop set up, Barbershop Harmonizer and Baarbershop checker tools, but the articles are quite old and the instructions for downloading and installing seem to refer to a much earlier version. Are these tools still available/working in the current version of MS, and if so how do I access them? Many thanks


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In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Yes, sorry Jojo, a bad description on my part. I read about the templates and tried to follow the instructions in Musescore 4, but when I choose the Choral 'family' in the new score 'Choose instruments' dialogue box there is no option for Barbershop as this article suggests there should be. https://musescore.org/en/node/294874 I'm guessing the article refers to MuseScore 3, but wonder if it can still be achieved in 4 somehow

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Thanks Jojo, that's appearing in the plug-ins now and I've activated it and it appears on the score. I need to work out how it works, but I guess there'll be a user guide somewhere.

Thanks so much for your help. The world needs more people like you who are prepared to use their expertise to help others. Thank you.

In reply to by Colin.Rote

I made a variant of the plugin (dropless.qml) which shows the chords in regular inversions. This may be more suited to your needs.

Proceed a follows:
Copy a lead sheet (melody + chord symbols) into the soprano staff of a SATB score (see SATB.mscz)
Run the plugin (dropless.qml)) (see SATB2)
Select the soprano score and run Tools>Explode (see SATB3). I lowered all voices by an octave to avoid (most) out of range notes

N.B. If you run mydrop2.qml you have to select the soprano score yourself before running the plugin.
SATB.mscz
SATB2.mscz
SATB3.mscz
dropless.qml

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