O MuseScore permite que você entre com a notação musical a partir de quaisquer dos seguintes equipamentos de entrada: teclado do computador, mouse, teclado MIDI, ou um teclado de piano virtual. O modo de entrada padrão é o passo-a-passo, no qual as notas ou pausas são inseridas uma por vez. Entretanto, outros modos de entrada estão também disponíveis.
Depois de sair do Assistente para configuração de nova partitura, sua nova partitura consistirá de uma serie de compassos preenchidos com pausas:
Na medida em que você insere notas, as pausas de compasso são substituídas pelas pausas apropriadas para completar o restante do compasso:
Notas de diferentes durações em um mesmo tempo são inseridas em diferentes Voices:
Esta seção apresenta as técnicas básicas de entrada de notas e pausas no modo passo-a-passo a partir de um teclado de computador. É também recomentado que você veja o tutorial, "Getting Started: An introduction to note entry in MuseScore". Ele está disponível em Start Center.
Selecione um ponto de partida para a entrada de notas clicando em uma nota ou pausa, ou selecionando um compasso, com o mouse. Se você não selecionar um ponto de partida, o cursor automaticamente irá para o início da partitura quando vocẽ selecionar o modo Entrada de Notas ("Passo 2" abaixo).
Para selecionar o modo Entrada de Notas , utilize uma das seguintes opções:
Para sair do modo Entrada de Notas , utilize uma das seguintes opções:
Still in Note Input mode, select a note duration using either of the following:
Note: If you need to enter a tuplet, see Tuplet.
This method of entry also works if you are not in Note Input mode—as long as you have a note/rest selected, or the score is newly-created (in which case note entry will default to the beginning).
Note: Note input in MuseScore overwrites existing notes or rests in a measure. If you need to insert notes you can make room for them by moving a section of the score using the copy and paste command. You can also insert new measures at any point (see Measure operations: Insert).
Music notation can be entered using a computer keyboard, mouse, MIDI keyboard or the Virtual Piano Keyboard.
This section expands on "Basic note entry" (see above) and covers the full range of commands available for entering notes/rests from the computer keyboard.
The shortcuts for selecting note duration are as follows:
You can enter a note by typing the corresponding letter on your keyboard. Thus, typing C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C gives you:
Note: When you enter a note using the keyboard, MuseScore places it closest to the previous note entered (above or below).
To enter a rest, type "0" (zero). Thus, typing C D 0 E results in:
Note: The duration selected in the toolbar applies to both notes and rests.
If you want to enter a dotted note, press . (period/full stop) after selecting the duration.
For example, typing 5 . C 4 D E F G A gives you:
Note: You will need to use more than one voice if the staff part is polyphonic.
To move a note up or down by a semitone:
To move a note up or down diatonically:
To move a note up or down by one octave:
When a note is moved up or down with an arrow key (see above), any accidental required is automatically generated by the program. Accidentals can also be added manually—see Accidentals.
If you want to add a chord note above your previous entry:
Thus, typing C, D, Shift + F, Shift + A, E, F results in:
To add a note at a specific interval above or below one or more notes:
Note: To create chords with notes of different durations, you will need to use more than one Voice.
Here is a list of useful editing shortcuts available in Note Input mode:
It's easy to enter notes with the mouse, but it is not the fastest way to enter lots of notes.
Note: If you hover the cursor over the score in Note Input Mode it will show you a preview of the note or rest you are about to add.
You can also insert pitches using a MIDI keyboard.
note input mode
The pitch should be added to your score.
Note: The MIDI keyboard enters one note or chord at a time. This mode of note input (often called "step-time entry") is fast and reliable. Beginning with version 2.1 MuseScore introduced a limited real time entry mode, in which the musican plays a passage and MuseScore tries to produce the notation.
If you have multiple MIDI devices connected to your computer, you may need to inform MuseScore which is the MIDI keyboard. Go to Edit→Preferences... (Mac: MuseScore→Preferences...). In the preferences dialog, click on the I/O tab and select your device under the section labeled "PortAudio".
You can also input notes using the on-screen piano keyboard.
The method of note entry is similar to that for a midi keyboard:
In addition to the existing Step-time and Repitch modes, three more input modes have been added in MuseScore 2.1 (see links below). All can be accessed by clicking the small arrow next to the "N" button on the left of the Note Input toolbar.
Depending on the skill of the musician, certain notes are considered beyond the range of a particular instrument. For informational purposes, MuseScore optionally colors notes red if they are outside the range of a "professional" player, and olive green/dark yellow if outside the range of an "early amateur." The colors appear on the computer screen, but not on printed copies.
To enable/disable note coloration and to set "professional" and "amateur" ranges, see Usable pitch range (Staff properties: all staves).
Note
section is used to only change the size of the individual notehead; the one in the Chord
section will change the note head, stem, beam, and flag sizes all together.By default, the small size is 70% of the normal size. You can change that setting in Style → General→Sizes.
To change the length of a single note or rest:
Increasing the duration will overwrite the notes or rests that follow it; decreasing the duration will add rests between it and the notes or rests following.
For example, to change three sixteenth rests into a single dotted eighth rest:
As the duration increases, it overwrites the other two sixteenth rests following it.
To change the pitch of a single note:
To change the enharmonic spelling of a note, select it and use the J command. For more information, see Accidentals.
To change the pitches of a passage of music by a constant interval, you can use Transposition.
To change the pitches of a passage of music to a different melody, while keeping the rhythm unchanged, use Re-pitch mode.
If your score contains a lot of misspelled accidentals, you might try the Respell Pitches command (see Accidentals: Respell pitches).
To change a rest to a note of the same duration:
To change a note to a rest of the same duration: