About MuseScript:

Word/Excel Editing Semantics: Selection, selection extension, cutting, and pasting follow Microsoft semantics. Musical Notes analogous to characters in Word. Measures, MeasureBlocks, Staves, and StaffBlocks analogous to cells in Excel. Try click-drag over a range of notes to select them. To select a voice just double-click any notehead. To select a measure just double-click anywhere in the measure except on a notehead. Auto Formatting: Entire song is kept formatted at all times. As music is entered or whenever the window size changes, auto formatting happens automatically. Automatic Transcription: Open any recording in wave file format and automatically convert it into sheet music. Currently, only monophonic recordings can be transcribed accurately. The wave view and playback controls, including playing at 1/3 speed without changing the pitch, are still a great assist even for polyphonic music.

Ease of Use Design:

• Word/Excel Editing Semantics: Selection, selection extension, cutting, and pasting follow Microsoft semantics. Musical Notes analogous to characters in Word. Measures, MeasureBlocks, Staves, and StaffBlocks analogous to cells in Excel. Try click-drag over a range of notes to select them. To select a voice just double-click any notehead. To select a measure just double-click anywhere in the measure except on a notehead.
• Auto Formatting: Entire song is kept formatted at all times. As music is entered or whenever the window size changes, auto formatting happens automatically.
• Automatic Transcription: Open any recording in wave file format and automatically convert it into sheet music. Currently, only monophonic recordings can be transcribed accurately. The wave view and playback controls, including playing at 1/3 speed without changing the pitch, are still a great assist even for polyphonic music.

Lyric Support:

Music Publishing:

Music Transcription:

Demo Songs:

The man subdirectory contains several demo songs, some of which highlight particular features of MuseScript and some of which are included because I liked them enough to play several hundred times during the development of MuseScript.

• changeoftime: Flexibility of Time Signature change, automatic voice and chord uncramping.
• bethena: A Joplin classic that I love. Also, this song which is over 3 minutes in length, only requires 41 Kbytes of disc space and highlights the efficiency of the MuseScript storage format.
• morning prayer: A simple yet elegant Tchaikovsky piece that I had to analyze in my first music theory class and one of the very few piano pieces that can play from memory.
• rhapsody-in-blue: A few introductory bars to this Gershwin classic. Along with Gershwin jazz at its best, it demonstrates MuseScript’s ability to uncramp chords and complex overlapping voices.
• slidinby: A few bars from this Billy Cobham tune. I've always liked his innovative licks. I used this one to debug using special notehead symbols for a Trapset.
• underthebridge: A few introductory bars from this early Chili Peppers hit. My guitar playing son asked me to help him learn the somewhat complicated rhythm.
• rudi2: A simple percussion rudiments example to highlight flams and drags.
• automuseX: A simple but cool example of AutoMuse. Let it play for days if you want and you’ll never hear any repetition. Do not try to follow the Playback Caret in AutoMuse mode, however. (To enable AutoMuse use Settings/AutoMuse/On.)
• 50ways: A Steve Gadd classic (transcribed from the Paul Simon recording) that highlights the simplicity of creating very cool drum beats.
• Solo-Nov12-03: Good percussion example showing drum mappings for a Trapset. Also, this is a good example for creating continuous, but non-repetitive music using AutoMuse. If your sound card has good drum samples, be sure to use them instead of the Microsoft Software Synth. (To enable AutoMuse use Settings/AutoMuse/On.)

AutoScript:

• Word/Excel Editing Semantics: Selection, selection extension, cutting, and pasting follow Microsoft semantics. Musical Notes analogous to characters in Word. Measures, MeasureBlocks, Staves, and StaffBlocks analogous to cells in Excel. Try click-drag over a range of notes to select them. To select a voice just double-click any notehead. To select a measure just double-click anywhere in the measure except on a notehead.
• Auto Formatting: Entire song is kept formatted at all times. As music is entered or whenever the window size changes, auto formatting happens automatically.
• Automatic Transcription: Open any recording in wave file format and automatically convert it into sheet music. Currently, only monophonic recordings can be transcribed accurately. The wave view and playback controls, including playing at 1/3 speed without changing the pitch, are still a great assist even for polyphonic music.