Mastering MuseScore: Make beautiful sheet music with MuseScore 2 Paperback – May 25, 2015

by Marc Sabatella

MASTERING MUSESCORE is the definitive guide to MuseScore 2, the free and open source music notation program for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This book starts with the basics, walking you through the notation of a very simple song. Next it explores the process of note entry and editing in depth, covering everything from notes and rests to tuplets and grace notes to cross staff notation and feathered beaming. The book then explains how to create and edit each of the many different types of markings supported by MuseScore, including time signatures, repeats, tablature, chord symbols, slash notation, and much more. The book covers score and part organization and page layout, as well as the playback, graphics, import, and export features, and it explains the many customizations the program offers. Hundreds of examples and illustrations are included to make it easy to follow along. MASTERING MUSESCORE is all you need to become in an expert in using MuseScore, the most powerful free music notation software in the world.

410 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2015

Reviews

[Bruce Darling]

Never finished, bought Finale instead.

[Martin St-Germain · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must for anyone who is interested in mastering MuseScore. I am really apreciating reading the digital version, it is great when you are searching with a key word. I love it!

[Simone Dagli Orti · Rating 5 out of 5]

La pietra miliare per chi vuole, anche solo iniziare, a fare notazione col software open-source MuseScore. L'inglese con cui è scritto è semplice e comprensibile a tutti. Un libro da leggere e rileggere.