
Ctrl-Shift left-button drag allow you to move stuff in the display if it is cluttered.Shift-right-button click edits things attached to the object at the cursor.ĭouble click left-button describes the object clicked on.Shift Key and Scroll Wheel pans the score left/right.ĭouble-click brings up the Object Inspector on the current object, from there you can launch the Object Editor.Scroll Wheel pans up/down to bring staffs out of view into the window. Left-button click moves the cursor to the object indicated by the blue circle.
#Denemo vs musescore windows#
Note that under the Input menu is an option to turn on more mouse-friendly buttons, this is the default for Windows users. Here are a few of the mouse shortcuts that are commonly used in Denemo (keyboards may vary, for control, shift, alt etc modifiers). On the main keyboard +/- make the next inserted note sharper/flatter.
Multiply ( * on the numeric keypad) ties/unties the note at the cursor.ĭivide ( / on the numeric keypad) sets/usets the note at the cursor as a grace note.Īdd/Subtract ( +/- on the numeric keypad) sharpens/flattens the note at the cursor.
TAB alternately inserts a start or stop triplet marker. Esc switches between various views of the music which can allow more music on the screen at once. Shift-/ inserts a cautionary accidental. 7 starts a slur, 8 extends it, while 9 reduces it. Or position the cursor and use Insert to add a note, Ctrl-Insert to remove it. removes a dot, on the numeric keypad Decimal (.) cycles through dotted, double-dotted, no-dot. The corresponding Numeric Keypad keys can be used instead. With the shift key held (or the CapsLock on) 0-6 edits the duration of the note at the cursor. They insert a duration at the cursor, which you then give a pitch to with a note name. Numbers 0-6 are used to refer to the note durations Whole Note \SpecialChar ldots 64th Note. Letters A-G (either CapsLock or Shift) tapped twice insert a note at the cursor.
Letters a-g edit the note at the cursor to be A-G, if the cursor is in the appending position then notes are added. Here are a few of the keyboard shortcuts that are commonly used in Denemo.
a good guide especially for non-native speakers of English. All staffs with the same part name (or with none) are typeset together by the Print Part ↓ command. Part is used with a special sense in Denemo: each staff has a part name associated with it (printed at top left of the staff, with a green background for editing it). So the Markup to System spacing is the spacing between the last title and the first staff. Generally when you need to specify a distance in Denemo this is the unit used. Staff Spaces a unit of measurement: the distance between adjacent lines in a staff. In Denemo this may even include syntax for snippets of music, note-names fret diagrams etc., so that these can appear in the text. titles – that can have additional characters to indicate bold or italic, repositioning etc. If the notes are of different durations then they have to be placed in separate voices, they can’t be a chord, though they may appear so (by sharing stems) in the typeset.Ī system ↓is what might be called a “line” of the music on the page, that is all the music (over several staffs) that sounds together starting at the left-hand margin and ending at the right margin. Voices are normally displayed on separate staffs in the Denemo Display to make them easy to edit the LilyPond typesetter has the task of placing them on the same staff.Ī chord ↓ is one or more notes of the same duration making a single musical object. The term voice ↓ is used in two senses: as a line of music moving independently on a staff, and (as in Voice 1, Voice 2), a voice that has its stems in one direction, with corresponding changes to the placing of ties, slurs, ornaments etc). A Denemo staff may also be typeset as a line of Chord Symbols ↓, Fret Diagrams ↓, or a line of dynamics markings above or below some other staff. Besides the terms well-known to musicians, music notation has some specialized names and Denemo uses some terms with specific meanings which you should know:Ī movement ↓ is a continous stretch of music (all the measures following on from each other) such as a song in a songbook, or a movement in a symphony.Ī score ↓ is one or more movements usually interspersed with titles.Ī staff ↓ has the usual meaning, but note that it may contain several lines of music (voices).