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MuseScore in Minutes: Layouts & Parts

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    By default, MuseScore arranges your sheet
    music to optimise available space
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    and also to avoid collisions.
    However, from time to time,
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    you may still want to make
    manual adjustments of your own.
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    All the functions that affect layout
    can be found in the "Layout" palette.
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    The most important of these are
    the break functions.
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    In this example, I want this measure to
    move down to the next system.
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    To do this, I can click on the barline
    where I want the break to occur
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    and then select this "System break" element.
    This places a system break icon on the score,
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    which you can simply delete if you want to
    return the score to how it was before.
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    The "Section break" is an element
    that can be used to specify
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    where you’d like a new section to occur.
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    This new section will return the
    measure numbers back to one.
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    It's worth mentioning that if you'd like to
    set a final barline at the end of this section,
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    you can do so by clicking on the line
    and then choosing the "Final barline" option
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    in the "Properties" panel. You can also do
    this using the "Barlines" palette.
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    Lastly, you can use the "Page break"
    element to move all measures
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    beyond the point it’s inserted
    to the next page.
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    If you want to toggle off the visibility of these
    "System", "Section" and "Page break" icons,
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    you can do this by selecting the "Formatting"
    setting in the "Properties" panel.
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    And don't worry,
    whether or not you do this,
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    these icons will never be visible
    in your exported or printed sheet music.
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    Sometimes, you may wish to alter
    the space between staves.
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    To do this, there are three different
    "Spacer" arrows in the "Layout" palette.
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    Once applied, you can click
    and drag these arrows
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    to finely adjust the vertical
    space between staves.
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    Now we’re going to look at working with
    Parts. If you have more than one instrument
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    or voice in your score and want to create
    individual parts for each of them,
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    the first place to start is by clicking on this
    "Parts" button at the top of the score window.
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    This triggers a dialog that shows all the
    available parts in your score.
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    Now if you want to open more
    than one part at a time,
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    simply hold Shift to select
    a range of instruments,
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    or Control (or Command on a Mac) to
    select a number of individual instruments.
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    Then click "Open Selected". If you want to
    open all available parts at the same time,
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    all you have to do is click "Open all".
    And you can see that they’re now all visible
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    as tabs above the score.
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    The "Parts" dialog is tightly integrated
    with the new "Instruments" panel.
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    This integration makes it easy for you
    to create and customise parts
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    with any combination of
    instruments from your score.
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    Say you want to make the violin 2
    part visible in this violin 1 part.
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    First, let’s select the violin 1 part
    so it’s visible in the score window.
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    Obviously all we can see at the
    moment is the violin 1 stave.
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    So next, we’ll go over
    to the "Instruments" panel,
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    where we can see all of the
    other instruments in this score.
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    Notice, however, that they’re all
    currently showing as “not visible”.
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    To make any of these instruments visible in
    this part, simply click on this visibility icon.
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    Now our Violin 2 stave is
    showing in this part for Violin 1.
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    We can rearrange these instruments, by clicking
    and dragging them in the "Instruments panel",
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    so they appear in whatever order
    we want in this particular part.
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    The best thing about this is that this in
    no way affects how the main score looks.
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    Sometimes you’ll want to create
    individual parts from a score
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    where different instruments
    or voices share a single stave.
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    For example, to create a separate part for
    each of the two voices on this flute staff,
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    open the "Parts" dialog and
    click "Create new part".
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    We’ll double-click on this
    new part to rename it “Flute 2”.
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    Now hold control (or command on a Mac)
    to select both of these parts,
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    and click “Open selected”.
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    This new “Flute 2” part is currently empty,
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    while our original Flute part contains
    both voices from the main score.
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    What we want to do is hide the second
    voice in our original Flute part,
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    and reveal it in the “Flute 2” part.
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    So let’s start by going
    over to the Instruments panel.
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    Click on this icon for the available part,
    and select this settings button
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    then uncheck the box next to voice 2.
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    Now we can only see voice 1 in this part.
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    Next, we’ll go over to the “Flute 2” part,
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    and reveal the flute instrument
    in the "Instruments" panel.
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    We’ll again go over to this settings button,
    and this time, uncheck the “voice 1” box.
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    Now we can see voice 2
    in our part for “Flute 2”.
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    The last thing we might want to do is
    export these parts as individual PDFs.
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    Go to File > Export.
    This triggers the “Export” dialog,
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    where you can see all of the
    available parts in your score.
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    You can use the checkboxes to select
    only those parts you wish to export,
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    or you can select them all at once by
    clicking this "Select all" button.
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    We’ll leave the “Format” settings
    as they are which, by default,
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    will export each part as a
    separate file in the PDF format.
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    When you’re ready, click “Export”
    to choose where you want to save your files
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    and you're ready to go!
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    The "Instruments" panel
    is new to MuseScore 4,
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    and while it already allows you to really
    customise your score and parts,
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    we look forward to developing
    it in future releases
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    to make it even more
    powerful and useful.
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MuseScore in Minutes: Layouts & Parts
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