help needed: how to include a (not exactly notated) "melody line"?
Hello!
I am putting an orchestral composition into musescore and found in a few measures of the harp section just "lines", that give the rough melody line but not exactly the individual notes. How can I include that into musescore?
See uploaded picture (which is not the example in my score, but shows what I mean)
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tobias
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Comments
Draw a picture and scan it, or use a graphics program to draw it and export to PNG or SVG, then drag & drop the image into MsueScore.
There are four 'quasi-random squiggle' symbols available in the Symbols section of the Master Palette (type Z to open that).
In reply to There are four 'quasi-random by Recorder485
and invisible and mute notes of the second voice?
In reply to and invisible and mute notes by Shoichi
Thanks for your comments, but that really looks like there is no proper solution to this. I am a bit puzzled that there is no option to just draw a freehand line.
OK, I will see which compromise I could use.
Thanks,
Tobias
In reply to Thanks for your comments, but by violinconcerto
This sort of notation is far from standard and has a limited number of use-cases. The ability to create a graphic in an outside drawing program and then paste it into an mscz file as an image makes it possible for those composers/transcribers who need such a free-form line to show it in their scores.
Below is a very quick-and-dirty approximation of the sample you posted earlier. It took me about 2 minutes to create that using a screen-shot of a blank staff from MuseScore and drawing the line on it using MS Paint.
I'm certain that you can produce a better job than that, even using a basic program like Paint, if you take a bit more care and time to do it than I did for this quickie.
In reply to This sort of notation is far by Recorder485
Thanks for this "quickie"! Looks good and I think I will try that one.
Best,
Tobias
In reply to This sort of notation is far by Recorder485
Well done.
In reply to Well done. by xavierjazz
Thanks, but I disagree. ;o) That quickie was tossed off in a few seconds in one 'take', and it is pretty raw. I would not publish it as it stands.
However, to do a decent job of that is far from difficult. It would require working at 400% to 800%, setting the png resolution to its highest dpi level, and taking the time to get the lines smooth. All I wanted to show with that example was that it is possible to do this; hence I didn't bother with the refinements.
The tricky part of this will be merging the finished png image seamlessly into a score. I haven't experimented at that level yet, but I suspect that someone experienced in using Photoshop could match the background colour to the canvas used in MuseScore, and resize the image to exactly the height of the staff in the actual score. From there, it would just be a matter of positioning it carefully enough, which should be possible since MuseScore can zoom up to 1600%. An offset error of 0.10mm at that zoom level would be invisible to the naked eye at 100%.
In reply to Thanks, but I disagree. ;o) by Recorder485
I know you could have done better, but I'm impressed with the knowledge and impulse to contribute.
Well done and thanks.