Two songs in one sheet
Hi,
My son just started to learn how to play piano and I use Musescore to make nursery/child songs in printable sheets.
I'd like to add 2 or more short songs onto one page/sheet but I couldn't figure out how.
Is it possible at all?
Regards
Laszlo
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You can join already written scores with the album manager: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/albums
For short parts/songs it's also possible using system- and page breaks (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers) and inserting a vertical frame for a new title and so on (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/frames#vertical) in the actual score.
In reply to You can join already written… by kuwitt
Thanks for the hint, however when I click on "Join Scores" (after following the instructions) it gives an error message saying "Error while creating score from album".
Also if I try to print the album it still puts the two little song into two separate sheets.
Any idea?
In reply to Thanks for the hint, however… by Gingerale75
Not without having a closer look at the scores.
In reply to Thanks for the hint, however… by Gingerale75
Each score, you want to join, must have the same number of instruments in the same order. If you're using different instruments in different scores, you've to add them in all scores in the same order and using the option "hide empty staves" in style->general...
If it doesn't work for you maybe attache the sores for further help.
In reply to Each score, you want to join… by kuwitt
It is too inconvenient to make a book of scores with multiple songs if all songs must have all instruments in the same order (although unused measures can be hidden). It is because, whenever a new song is to be added to the existing song(s), "continuous view" mode must be used first. The mode makes all invisible measures visible and then either you enter notes or manually make the necessary staves visible. When all staves/measures for all instruments appear, this is too cumbersome when there would be many staves/measures that are not at all needed in the song edited. Also, logically this does not make a good sense with most cases that I have experienced. Of course, this is not a problem, e.,g., when all songs are of piano pieces or of some ensamble or orchestrations where it is natural when all instruments/measures staves are shown.
When a musical piece is ended with a bold double bar line, indicating a clear end, it is most natural for MuseScore to allow different number of instruments for the next song. If the piece is ended with non-bold double bar line, I suppose that it may indicate that the same number of instruments are used with the same order, but I am not certain whether such is a requirement from some technical reasons, e.g., MusicXML definition.
In reply to It is too inconvenient to… by yoichi123
The album feature is being redesigned and implemented for MuseScore 4, these limitations should no longer exist.
In reply to The album feature is being… by Marc Sabatella
That's great!
You can use albums but it might be overkill. Why not just put the two songs in the same score directly? Enter the first, add a section break to last measure, append a vertical frame, add a new title to it, append more measures, and enter the new song.
In reply to You can use albums but it… by Marc Sabatella
Does the use of section breaks and vertical frames like this also allow for the export feature (as of v3.6) to automatically be able (via "score from parts" option, or something similar) to export multiple mp3's as separate tracks? For example I have a set of 21 variations all in one score -- it was one improvisation -- and it would be quite a bit of extra work to manually cut out and create separate musescore score files for each variation.
In reply to Does the use of section… by [DELETED] 31044458
No
In reply to No by Jojo-Schmitz
Ok that's OK -- absolutely great product overall!! Thanks for the response
Thank you for all the hints, both ways worked. :)