These are (mostly Musescore) engravings of pieces originally written in another format (i.e. non-digitally or in a digital format that isn’t Musescore or Lilypond).
Any scores that are in Musescore format here are not expected to sound good or even sound accurate in any way when played using Musescore’s playback feature. Nor are any of the Musescore scores expected to make good use of Musescore-specific metadata (that is, data not reflected in the score itself, e.g. pitch ranges for instruments).
Musescore’s layout/engraving system works well enough for some things, but is unfortunately far inferior to a dedicated engraving program like Lilypond. Because of this, rendering Musescore scores to a visual format (SVG, PDF, &c.) is expected to produce reasonable and fully readable results, but don’t expect them to look like the most beautiful sheets that you’ve ever seen. One way to get better results — if you don’t care about unpitched percussion parts, or have a way of working around them (like setting them yourself in Lilypond) — is the following:
- Use Musescore to export the score as MusicXML (uncompressed of course).
- Use Lilypond’s built-in
musicxml2lycommand to automatically convert the MusicXML to Lilypond format. - Use Lilypond to render to the desired visual format (after possibly making your own tweaks to the Lilypond file).
Naturally, this is a bit lossy, so not every bit of detail will transfer over, most notably unpitched percussion parts (which will be destroyed).
All contents of this repository (including this document, but not including the LICENSE text itself) are licensed to anyone under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 4.0 (or any higher version, at your option).
