Annotation Tutorial

• Getting started
  • Introduction
  • Preparing this tutorial
    • Get the files
    • Get the latest version of MuseScore 3
      • Downloading MuseScore
      • Already have it installed?
  • Placing the annotation cursor
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Moving the annotation cursor
  • Background knowledge and tricks
    • MSCZ vs. MSCX
    • Navigating in MuseScore
    • Editing annotations
    • Copying several annotations
    • Visibility
  • Start annotation tutorial
• The first label
  • Global key
  • Local key
• The first phrase
  • Tempo marking
  • Phrase annotations
  • Cadence Labels
  • Chord syntax
• Level of detail
  • Solution 1: Coarse-grained
  • Solution 2: Fine-grained
  • Solution 3: Indicating replaced chord tones
• Changing the local key
  • The syntax
  • Try it out!
  • Change of key or tonicization?
• Contrapuntal patterns
  • Introduction
    • A more difficult case
  • Solution 1
  • Solution 2
  • Solution 3
    • 7-6 suspensions versus seventh chords
    • Analytic conventions
• Some more features
  • Melodies in the bass
  • Bass arpeggios
  • Advanced use of applied chord notation
  • Organ Points
  • Unisono passages
  • Advanced use of chord tone replacement
    • General principles
    • Replacement of a chord tone’s octave doubling
    • Ninth chords
    • Replacement of the root by its lower neighbour
  • End of the tutorial
    • Missing sections