Milestones
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Basic notation
- #9336: rests should adjust position for multiple voices
- Ties
- Beams
- #3459: Beaming of sixteenth and eighth note sequences in 4/4
- #7765: Beam should reach center line for notes beyond one ledger line
- #13035: Beam direction for two notes
- #13036: Beam direction for three or more notes
- #23377: Beam collides with grace note
- Beams should be horizontal for groups of repeated intervals (bug report and test file to be written)
- Beams should be horizontal when there are several repeated pitches (bug report and test file to be written)
- #4867: Rests in measures should be grouped according to time signature
- #7510: Up/Down arrows skip diatonic notes for some key signatures
- #3325: Seconds between voices overlap
- #9174: Seconds in voice 2 flip to wrong side of stem
- #1464: Faulty vertical alignment of accidentals at chords
- #21438: Ties need to break at key and time signatures
- #16098: Rests between beamed notes don't relocate
- #21232: Distances before the first note
- #21994: Adjacent multi-voice notes on the incorrect side of stem
- #15434: Incorrect positioning of augmentation dots
- #20390: Tremolo through stem collide with ledger lines
- #22642: Horizontal positioning of accidental incorrect if in chord with adjacent notes
- #18184: Adjacent notes appear on the same side of stem when adding another
- #21606: Slur does not lead to pitch resolving the ornament
- #17889: Removing top instrument removes group bracket
- Glissando
- #3811: Glissando incorrectly presented over line break
- #17352: Glissando incorrectly positioned in cross staff notes
- #19155: Apply glissando to multiple notes in chord
- #3919: Line can't be extended to the last note
- #22826: Courtesy key and time signatures incorrectly positioned at line break
- #21131: Ledger lines for mix of small- and full-sized notes on same stem sized incorrectly
- #22687: Concert Pitch switching does not preserve key spelling if the transposition crosses between sharp and flat keys
Customization
MuseScore allows for customization to manually fix most of the basic notation problems listed below. However, the following problems occur so often that better defaults would save significant amounts of time.
Necessary
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These are bugs in which workarounds are either not desirable, or impossible.
Ensemble
The previous version of MuseScore made significant strides towards preparing MuseScore for use on ensemble scores such as orchestra or band. Below are some remaining hurdles.
- #3587: Non-lossy transposition is necessary for composers who wish to switch back and forth between concert pitch and written pitch. Implementation details here
- #4617: System text on hidden staves should show on next available staff
- #4487: Part should be transposed pitch regardless of full score
- #4979: Instrument names with flats do not resize with score (0.9.5 regression)
- Header or footer text for multi-page scores (see also //musescore.org/en/node/6197 )
- #9456: Automatically add horizontal frame before first system of parts
- #12367: Volta brackets should export to all parts
- Hiding staves
- Parts
- #4975: Parts should have multi-measure rests by default
- Part dialog should be automatically filled out the first time it is opened (with all the instrument parts)
Linked parts so that you don't have to re-create parts each time you make a change to the score
- Ability to switch instruments mid-way through a staff. See http://musescore.org/node/3834 [Partially implemented: Sound changes possible but does not support staff or transpositions changes yet]
- Newly added instruments should have the correct key signature. (See #5961: Wrong key signature for new instruments)
- #22625: Thin square bracket for orchestra scores
Necessary
Helpful
Lyrics
The following hurdles make MuseScore impractical or difficult for creating professional-quality scores with lyrics.
- #4149: Left align lyrics for melismas and tied notes
- #17190: Non-last lyric syllables on slurred/tied notes are centered rather than left aligned
- #3961: Melisma line over system break
- #22696: Lyrics don't overlap stave elements
- #24856: Ignore "parenthesized expressions" that precede lyric syllables