Plainchant tutorial
With some regularity, there are user posts on this forum with requests on engraving Gregorian plainchant, and other forms of unmeasured chant (although they're frequently not worded that way, exactly). I propose that a tutorial be assembled to which these requests can be directed; and, with guidance, I would be happy to write one.
The salient information--stemless note heads, lines lacking time-signatures, typing lyrics with more than one word under a note, etc.--is all available in the handbook, it just needs to be collected into one tutorial.
Note: although both are "early music" issues, unmeasured chant is very different from measured, but unmetered music which is covered in the articles on "note values extend across bar-lines" and "Mensurstrich."
Thoughts, anyone?
Comments
Yes, I see requests like this multiple times (though not as frequently as for 'Voices').
In any event, you might consider creating a 'How To'.
For example, like this:
https://musescore.org/en/node/309537
How To's are readily found under 'Support' at the top of the Forum page.
In reply to Yes, I see requests like… by Jm6stringer
Thanks! I may need a How To on how to write a "How To":-)
I meant to add that I did find one tutorial--available in English and Spanish--on notating Gregorian chant, specifically on MuseScore! However, it addresses only one of the several (modern) notation schemes; I would like to include others. It's not published on this site, but on the liturgical music blog Musica Sacra:
https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/17988/tutorial-gregorian…
In reply to Thanks! I may need a How To… by wfazekas1
Just under the blue bar at the top of the webpage, click Support / How To's and then click Add new how to at the top of the list.
This opens a page similar to the Add new content or Reply page. It has more fields to fill in though.
Good luck!!!
In reply to Just under the blue bar at… by TheHutch
Thanks! I've been tentatively outline a tutorial, but with two common styles of representing chant in modern notation*, and lots of ways to create unmeasured phrases (joining measures, deleting/hiding barlines, using "measure properties" to extend measure lengths, etc., etc.), this is proving more complex than I had initially thought, at least if I want to be thorough. Also, I'm not particularly proficient with screen-shots, hyperlinks, and the like, which would be handy in addition to text
*1) punctum represented by an eighth-note, neumes reflected through beaming--the style preferred by modern-notation publications by Solesmes.
2) punctum represented by stemless black notehead, neumes reflected through slurs--the style preferred in a lot of musicological publications, and in the (Episcopal) 1982 Hymnal.