The new project wizard steps you through creation of a new project you can start from scratch or you can use a template. To begin an empty project, select File | New. The demo piece is a good example of what's possible with MuseScore, but the best way to learn it is to use it, so let's start a fresh project. If you want to open to an empty project, change that behavior in Edit | Preferences. When you launch MuseScore, it loads an example piece by default. If you can't find one, look for the other. On Linux, it's available from your repository (or for us Slackware users).Īfter installation, MuseScore may be listed as mscore, depending on how you have your desktop configured ( mscore is the name of the executable, but many desktops list it by its description text, MuseScore, in application menus). MuseScore is a cross-platform application, so you can download and install it on any computer. As with everything else, this boils down to practice, but even to the uninitiated, MuseScore is intuitive, while also maintaining the complexity required for a professional, readable, musical score. MuseScore is a tool you hope will become so familiar to you that it fades into the background, stays well out of your way, and possibly, on occasion, makes your life easier. MuseScore is to music notation what a word processor is to, say, articles about open source it's the tool that you want to take for granted. Therefore, in an a continuation of an unofficial musical notation series, I present to you MuseScore, the open source WYSIWYG sheet music creation suite. Last month, D Ruth Bavousett wrote about creating sheet music with the Lilypond "music engraving program," and it got me thinking about MuseScore-which she also mentioned in the article, but in passing-and what a powerful tool it is for musical notation.
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