Educational Features
I'm new to Musecore, and not a teacher myself but being a student of music i find that if i could right notes with my saffs that would help me study and make flash cards for myself
Making it possible to have a text base system so teachers could use this to make tests for there students. i beleve it would get alot more use since this would be one more software that schools would not have to buy and update for their instructors.
I could make a bunch of examples but I'm sure you all know what a question and answer looks like.
And since i did mention flash cards make a special template were you have staff on one side and text on the other side. And with school picking up, this would be a great feature to have to help me study and get use to the software itself.
But i will be spreading the word at my school about this program.
Sorry if this was brought up before.
Comments
Coud you elaborate on your first request about question and answer ?
Regarding flash card, here is a example : http://musescore.com/score/3649 with "question" on one side and "answer" on the other (Use left/right arrow keys, MuseScore file, PDF etc... on the left side).
Here is another example for staff and text : http://musescore.com/score/23363
I'm not familiar at all with flash cards. They are not used in my home country. Is there a special page format?
I would love to work with a student or a teacher to create more education related resources for MuseScore. So if you can make a bunch of example, go ahead !
In reply to Coud you elaborate on your by [DELETED] 5
I suggest you use a program like Mnemosyne or Anki for the flashcards and take screenshots from Musescore for the Graphics. These programs (both free) allow images to be placed on the Question side.
I supose that the word "notes" was a lil mis understood. i can see why. but iwhat i meant was if i could make a scale and the wright next to it what it was called and ehat notes it was. But thinking about it some more I balive it would be better served as a plugin to a program such as open office. witch is a text based program. so i can take notes in my music thory class.
I would love to help you get the GUI set up. But since im not a programer i would only beable to tell you if it works or not.
In reply to Words with the music score by Mr.Skittles
Do you know you can enter text anywhere ? with frame or just by selecting a note and Ctrl + T.
In reply to Do you know you can enter by [DELETED] 5
Also, you can use Lyrics to write in the note names below each note easily. That combined with Staff Text, System Text, Rehearsal Marks, and text within frames (for example) and you can create some pretty text-rich "scores". You'd only need to resort to OpenOffice if you're actually writing a textbook or something.
In reply to Also, you can use Lyrics to by Marc Sabatella
Exactly, my point about educational resource was more something like short exercices but I must say I have no idea how music notation & software is currently use in education.
For example, in Spain, they are using MuseScore to create rythmic cell or to create an exercice ("put the notes in the staff").
In my music class i use staff paper to wright my notes done. Some words a vocab and some are the notation. I am just wanting a opportunity to use Musescor to do this thing on my computer.
And an instituter would use it the same way to give a question about a triad or what ever.
I know this is mostly for writing scores but it seems to be a thing to have better then every one eals. and if you had a plug in for open office or word or key note to help spread the word about this program.
Cus what I am talking about is a more text based application of Muse core. and this way you could make flash cards with a lil ingenuity with your word posing program and a flash card making program to make your own flash cards.
I dont know how eals to explain it other then posting pictures. witch i will if you want.
In reply to With my education by Mr.Skittles
The idea of wanting to freely mix text and notation is clear enough to me. What's less obvious is how one would envision it actually working - at least, how MuseScore and OpenOffice could actually be integrated.
FWIW, in my educational writing these days, I am not using MuseScore for my musical examples, precisely because it is too painful to continually switch between OpenOffice and MuseScore and to create the graphics and paste them in. Even more painful if I later wish to edit an example, as I need to figure out which MuseScore file corresponds to which example. I'd much rather create my examples directly within OpenOffice.
So instead, I am using ABC - a text-based music language I learned last year to give me a way of communicating music notation with a blind student - to notate my musical examples. Below, for instance, is a passage I just wrote a little while ago.
It took only a couple of weeks to get comfortable enough with ABC that I could type it faster than I can enter music in MuseScore, and I never have to switch programs. There is an excellent free program called abcm2ps that can translate ABC into music notation, and I wrote some macros to invoke that from within OpenOffice. So I can create my examples in text and turn them into notation (and back) very easily.
While I can still see some advantages to getting MuseScore integrated with OpenOffice - if I could only figure out wht that even would mean, really - I still suspect that for sheer speed, it would never compare to simply typing ABC when you want to notate something. I realize that for most people this will sound like I just recommended eating live spiders, but I swear, ABC really is quite simple once you get the hang of it.
Here is what the snippet I just wrote looks like:
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The actual spelling of any given note in a given piece of music will depend on context. In general, if a note with an accidental resolves up by half step, we will usually spell it with a raised scale degree, and if it resolves down by half step, we will usually spell it with a lowered scale degree:
X:1
M:4/4
K:Eb
B"^resolves up"=ABd- d"^resolves down"_d c2 ||
w:~5 #4 ~5 7 * b7 ~6
There are some situations where the relationship of the note in question to the current chord is more important than whether the note resolves up or down in deciding how to spell the note. For instance, in the following example, the second note is spelled F# instead of Gb even though it is descending, because F# is the correct spelling in a D7 chord:
X:1
M:4/4
K:C
"C" G4 "D7" ^F4 | "G7" =F8 ||
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And here is what it looks like a couple of clicks later: