Table of Contents

Getting started

• Installation
• Create new score
• Language settings and translation updates
• Checking for updates

Basics

• Create new score (→Getting started)
• Note input
• Concert pitch
• Copy and paste
• Edit mode
• Measure operations
• Palette
• Preferences
• Save/Export/Print
• Selection modes
• Undo and redo
• View modes
• File format
• Share scores online

Notation

• Note input (→Basics)
• Palette (→Basics)
• Accidental
• Arpeggio and glissando
• Bar line
• Beam
• Bracket
• Breath and pause
• Clef
• Drum notation
• Grace note
• Hairpin
• Key signature
• Lines
• Measure rest
• Repeat
• Slur
• Tie
• Time signature
• Transposition
• Tremolo
• Tuplet
• Voices
• Volta (1st and 2nd time endings)

Sound and playback

• MIDI import
• Mid-staff instrument change
• Play mode
• Soundfont
• Swing
• Tempo
• Dynamics
• Change and adjust sound

Text

• Grid-based movement of symbols and staff text
• Rehearsal marks
• Text editing
• Text style
• Chord symbols
• Fingering
• Lyrics
• Tempo (→Sound and playback)

Formatting

• Layout and formatting (overview)
• Breaks and spacers
• Frame
• Image
• Image capture

Advanced topics

• Accessibility
• Album
• Cross staff beaming
• Custom palette
• Early music features
• Figured bass
• Fretboard diagram
• Inspector and object properties
• Master palette
• Part extraction
• Plugins
• Replace pitches without changing rhythms
• Score information
• Staff type properties
• Tablature
• Tools
• Nonexistant node nid: 39841

New features in MuseScore 2.0

• What's New in MuseScore 2
• MuseScore 2.0 Release Notes

• Changes for MuseScore 2.0.

  • Album (→Advanced topics)
  • View modes: Continuous view and Navigator (→Basics)
  • Copy and paste: Selection filter (→Basics)
  • Custom palette (→Advanced topics)
  • Early music features (→Advanced topics)
  • Figured bass (→Advanced topics)
  • Grid-based movement of symbols and staff text (→Text)
  • Image capture (→Formatting)
  • Inspector and object properties (→Advanced topics)
  • Measure operations: Split and join (→Basics)
  • MIDI import (→Sound and playback)
  • Mid-staff instrument change (→Sound and playback)
  • Part extraction (new options available) (→Advanced Topic)
• Rehearsal marks: Automatic next rehearsal mark and Search for a rehearsal mark (→Text)
  • Save/Export (→Basics) - Staff type properties (→Advanced topics)
  • Swing (→Sound and playback)
  • Tablature (→Advanced topics)
  • Nonexistant node nid: 39841 (→Advanced topics)
  • Master palette (→Advanced topics)
  • Layout and formatting (some options have changed, and there is a new "apply to all parts" feature) (→Formatting)
  • Breaks and spacers, section break (→Formatting)
  • Selection modes, select all similar new options (same subtype) (→Basics)
  • Create a new score, start center (→Basics)
  • Languages settings and translation Updates (→Basics)
  • Helping and improve translation (→Support)
  • Accidentals, respell pitches (→Notation)
  • Replace pitches without changing rhythms (→Advanced topics)
  • Tools (→Advanced topics)
  • Meta tags (→Advanced topics)
  • Upgrading from MuseScore 1.x

Support

• Helping and improve translation
• How to ask for support or file reports
• Revert to factory settings
• Known incompatibilities

Appendix

• Keyboard shortcuts
• Known limitations of MuseScore 2.x
• Command line options
• Glossary
• Handbook for MuseScore 1.x