Can someone share examples of contemporary classical scores made with musescore?
Hi,
I've been trying to see examples of contemporary classical scores made with musescore, but was unable to do so...
I use both Finale and Sibelius (equally) for my needs, but I'm a huge fan and supporter of the open source community (I did my PhD thesis on open office, and I'm using inkscape and blender for my needs). But I'd like a few examples of what can be done with musescore (in extreme form), if possible.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thank you all.
Nikolas
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Not so extreme, and not contemporary music but I pushed the boundaries of MuseScore in a couple of occasion for transcriptions. See my set on musescore.com : http://musescore.com/nicolas/sets/pushing-the-limits
What are you looking for specifically? MuseScore's first goal is conventional notation, there is a lot to explore for contemporary music, but if you can handle Inkscape, you can import any SVG.
In reply to Not so extreme, and not by [DELETED] 5
Nicolas,
Your examples do provide some insights on a few things... (for example I noticed that you can change notehead shapes).
Other stuff would be cross-staffing, deleting staves in the middle of a page, alter the size of staves and notes, and create various lines, thick, straight, wavy, or other... To give some examples.
With both sibelius and finale, these are rather tedious and can take hours (especially if we're talking about 96 page orchestral scores).
Forgive the tiny bit spamy nature of the links, but... for example:
http://www.musica-ferrum.com/shop_files/images/slyorig_b00de3fa33ec0d74…
or
http://www.musica-ferrum.com/shop_files/images/slyorig_1c9c27eb9dc70187…
Oh... and how does musescore handle image importing? Finale AND Sibelius pretty much suck at that (since they are not using vector graphics, where as inkscape does... That's why I jumped the wagon with inkscape (and looking at scribus as well... ;))
Thanks for all your help and your swift reply! :)
In reply to Nicolas, Your examples do by EMF_
You can drag and drop PNG and SVG (so vector) to a score. Next version will let you add them in the palette.
Cross staff beaming is supported. See Cross staff beaming . There is however one known bug in certain configuration.
There is a line tool but no wavy style for lines, except arpeggio and glissando.
You can have two sizes of staves in the same piece, small and normal. Small can define as a percentage and so can be big as well (150%). But you can't change a staff from normal to small. You can hide any measure of any staff. You can hide empty staves too.
In your example, the start of the score would be hard to do since you can't hide staff line at a given point but just for measures, except this, it should be ok.
Of course :) it's open source, contributions are welcome!