Tempo Format Change
I liked it better when tempo was with words instead of "note that takes the beat" = x BPM
I mean yes, some modern pieces are in that form as far as tempo but most pieces say something like Allegro or Adagio or Prestissimo or something like that. I also liked how in Musescore 1.3 there were several languages besides Italian for tempo. Like in German, Allegro would be MaBig(don't know how to type German letters so this is the closest I can get on an English keyboard)
Is there a way you could get that old, multilanguage, tempo selection back instead of having the tempo in the Musescore 2 form( "note" = x BPM)?
If not, is there a way I can get it to look as though I used Musescore 1.3 for the tempo(So for example I set the tempo to 120 BPM and in the text box it says Allegro)?
Or maybe you could program it so that certain BPM automatically get the corresponding word and the user selects what language they want the tempo in(So for example if the user sets the tempo to 140-160 BPM, make it automatically put in the corresponding word in the user's preferred language for tempo(so in my case Molto Allegro)) or something along those lines?
Here is an example of Musescore 2 Tempo:
And here is an example of Musescore 1.3 type Tempo(not from Musescore 1.3 mind you):
Comments
There appears to be a bit of confusion here, and possibly the program's UI can be improved to fix that.
Strictly speaking, [quarter note] = 120 is a metronome mark and Allegro is a tempo. This is actually an important distinction, because a tempo is descriptive of a range of playing speeds, while a metronome mark is prescriptive of a very specific playing speed.
It might be better to change the title of the current 'Tempo' palette to 'Metronome Mark', and to add a new palette entitled 'Tempo Text' which would contain a number of the standard tempi marks, such as Allegro, Moderato, Largo, and so forth.
As for your request to show tempo in other languages than Italian, perhaps an item could be added to the 'Preferences' dialogue to enable the user to choose which language the 'Tempo Text' palette shows.
ETA: You can set the underlying speed of any tempo text by using the inspector, BTW. There are at least wo ways to do this in 2.0.x:
(1) Drag a metronome mark from the Tempo palette onto the score, then type CTL+A to select it all and then backspace to erase it. Now enter the tempo text you want, and click in a blank part of the score to exit text entry mode. Single-click on the text to select it, then set the speed using the Inspector (F8).
(2) Insert a Tempo Text using the keyboard shortcut Alt+T, then use the same procedure as above.
You can create your own custom tempo markings and set your own speeds the drag them to a custom palette for later use. If I am doing a long piece I sometimes also create rit., rall., a tempo., Tempo I or whatever.
I would support the idea of tempo marks and also think it would be good if you could set the speed for marks for the current piece - i.e. a tempo. rit. rall., più meno mosso etc.
In current nightly builds, a number of such textual tempos have been added to the default Tempo palette in the Advanced workspace. However, at this point they don't work properly for time signatures not based on a quarter note beat.
For the reocrd, though, it's not really true that "most music" uses the Italian/German terms. Change that to "most *classical* music, if written before 1900" and it's definitely true, but starts being less and less true to the as we progress toward today or consider genres of music other than classical.
Meanwhile, yes, for now, you can put custom tempo markings on the palette if you miss them, and a future version of MuseScore will add them for you as well.