MuseScore Studio Handbook
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  • MuseScore Studio Handbook
  • About the handbook
  • Introduction
    • Download and installation
    • Create your first score
    • Upgrading to MuseScore Studio 4 from earlier versions
  • Navigation
    • Accessibility
    • The user interface
    • Navigating your score
    • Timeline
    • Braille
  • Basics
    • Setting up your score
    • Entering notes and rests
    • Working with multiple voices
    • Input by duration mode
    • Alternative note input methods
    • Adding and removing measures
    • Selecting elements
    • Editing notes and rests
    • Copy and paste
    • Using the palettes
    • Properties panel
    • Adjusting elements directly
    • Parts
    • Default keyboard shortcuts
  • Notation
    • Instruments, staves, and systems
      • Instruments and system markings
      • Showing staves only where needed
      • Implode and explode
      • Mid-score instrument changes
      • Staff type change
      • Staff/Part properties
      • Brackets
    • Rhythm, meter, and measures
    • Pitch
    • Expressive markings
    • Repeats
  • Idiomatic notation
    • Keyboard
    • Guitar
    • Harp
    • Percussion
  • Alternative notation
    • Mensural notation and Mensurstrich
    • Slash notation
    • Custom staff types
  • Text
    • Entering and editing text
    • Formatting text
    • Staff Text, System Text and Expression Text
    • Tempo markings
    • Lyrics
    • Fingering
    • Chord symbols
    • Figured bass
    • Rehearsal marks
    • Header and footer
    • Text blocks
  • Formatting
    • Page layout concepts
    • Positioning of elements
    • Score size and spacing
    • Systems and horizontal spacing
    • Pages and vertical spacing
    • Using frames for additional content
    • Working with images
    • Using sections for multiple movements or songs
  • File management
    • Opening and saving scores
    • File export
    • Working with MusicXML files
    • Backup and recovered files
    • Project properties
    • Publish to MuseScore.com
    • Share on Audio.com
  • Sound and playback
    • Playback controls
    • Mixer
    • SoundFonts
    • Installing MuseSounds
    • Sound flags
    • Swing playback
    • Working with MIDI
    • Working with VST and VSTi
  • Customization
    • Language
    • Appearance
    • Toolbars and windows
    • Templates and styles
    • Palettes
    • Workspaces
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Preferences
    • Plugins
  • Support
    • Getting help
    • Revert to factory settings
    • Troubleshooting
  • Appendix
    • Command line usage
    • All keyboard shortcuts
    • Changes for MDL percussion
    • Upgrade from MuseScore 3.x
    • Glossary
    • Music fonts
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Instruments, staves, and systems

Instruments and system markingsShowing staves only where neededImplode and explodeMid-score instrument changesStaff type changeStaff/Part propertiesBrackets
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