SCORE Functional User Guide

This user guide comprises a series of short tutorials on methods for using SCORE v.4 to address some basic and potentially confusing examples of musical representation.

Rather than concentrate on SCORE syntax, which is already excellently documented by Craig Sapp in his SCORE 4.0 Music Data Entry Reference Manual, these tutorials will focus on step-by-step walkthroughs of data entry and modification scenarios.

Multiple Voices on a Single Staff

Enter voice #1 in the normal fashion, continuing through the note name entry, rhythm, beam, marks and slurs stages.

When prompted to start the next system, when the default Staff # is incremented to the next staff (if we're on the 2nd staff, it would now say "Staff = 3" at the top left of the screen), set the Staff # to 2, meaning we'll keep entering data on staff 2.

Enter your data normally, through each of the 5 stages. Hit ESC after all data entry is complete to return to the prompt at the top of the screen.

Now, you want to edit data on Staff 2, so use the ST command, giving it as parameters the system on which you would like to start and the number of the note on that line which you would like to edit (e.g. "ST2 1", which will move the edit arrow to the first note)

To move through each note, hit the ENTER key until the arrow is positioned next to the note you want to edit (NOTE: the order of notes begins with the first note of the first voice you entered, so to edit the first note of the second voice on a staff, you need to keep hitting enter until you move through all the notes of the first voice and the arrow has now moved back to the start of the line).

Now, when the note you'd like to edit is selected, we want to flip the stem using Parameter 5 with a value: "5 10" for example will flip a stem from pointing down to pointing up (see "Flipping Stem-Direction" below).

Flipping Stem-Direction

"ST1 1" - ST[staff number] [item number]

Parameter 5: Stem Direction
"5 0" - no stem
"5 10" - sets stem direction UP
"5 20" - sets stem direction DOWN

Each range of 10 values (0-9, 10-19, 20-29) displays a variety of accidentals with the appropriate note direction. For exact spacing of accidentals, use fractional values (e.g. "5 13.3").

For more detail on Note/Code 1 Parameters: http://www.ccarh.org/courses/253/handout/scorecode/1/code1.pdf

Quick guide to SCORE object codes:

	Code 1		Notes
	Code 2		Rests
	Code 3		Clefs
	Code 4		Lines
	Code 5		Slurs
	Code 6		Beams
	Code 7		tr, 8va, ped. lines
	Code 8		Staves
	Code 9		Symbol library
	Code 10	Numbers
	Code 11	User-defined symbols
	Code 12	Geometric shapes, including guitar tablature
	Code 13	Reserved
	Code 14	Bar lines
	Code 15	Added PostScript code
	Code 16	Text and lyrics
	Code 17	Key signatures
	Code 18	Meter numbers

Don Anthony's Tips

	Split Staff Beaming - Specify stem direction at input stage
	"type ex02comp.txt"
		S+ - put the note on the staff above, followed by note to be placed
		S0 - back to original staff
	"g" - get
	"z.65 - set zoom to 65%
	
	choose bracket with mouse 
	bracket is a SLUR in SCORE
	Parameter 9 - "9 -2
	more negative makes wider space in center of bracket
	
	type ifex04.txt
	if (p1=1 or p1=6) and p2=2 then p4=p4+100
	
	p1=1 - note
	p1=6 - beam
	p2 - staff
	p3 - horizontal position
	
	p4 - vertical height
	
	st2 6 - edit mode, go to BEAM
	
	ad2 - adjust beams to notes on Staff 2
	
	st2 6 - 8 15 (adds the number "15" to the beam)
	
	set parameter 7, on code 6, from 22, to 21 for a single beam
	

	Gregorian Chant Example
	Dir *.txt - show all text files in directory
	
	Code 9
	
	marks:
	
	dummy notes - stem up, top staff, which we will delete eventually
	N1062 1'2/N1071 3/N1063 5'6/...
	
	
	9 1 0 8 1078
	
	code, staff, horizontal position, vertical position, library number
	
	"m" - move mode
		use mouse, click here to draw, draw box around 3 items, Box OK (move all things selected)
		draw smaller box, Box OK, and it will fit the first box into the 2nd
		
	Shorten Barline
		code 14, p 10,11 (Bar extensions)
		10 4.5 - move bottom of barline up (from 3)
		11 8 - move top of barline down to 8

	Enter Text (lyric text)
		t  1 (staff) 0 (always put, Horizontal) -5 (vertical parameter) 1 (how close or far apart) .65 (text size, same as staff)
		"t 1 0 -5 1 .65"
		Choose Font
		_00P0!!pu!!lum/h<		


	
	Brackets
	
		always belong to bottom staff
		st 1 14
		
		parameter 5 - bar type
		"5 9" - square left bracket
		"F3" - copy
		
		regular brackets, staff 3-4
		
		"2 3 4 2 5 8"

		4 2 - cover 2 staves
		5 8 - curly brace

		F3
		
		3 -1.5 (set horizontal placer)
		
		2 3 (associate with staff 5)