Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Recent Posts
12
General Discussion / Alternative notes per lyrics.
Last post by bjhall1950 -
Is there a way in NoteWorthy to change the note head size for individual notes?

I have seen this in engravings from publishers and would like to incorporate it in some songs I have written.

In the attached image, you can see that the alternative notes (smaller note heads) would only be played on the 2nd and third stanzas of the song. The first image shows what NotWorthy looks like, and the second image is what the original score looks like at the same place.

Your help or suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

BJ
13
General Discussion / Re: Scriptorium Update
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
Folks
The Scriptorium has been updated with works submitted by :

Maurizio Spagni   Antiche danze e arie per liuto, suite 1   (Respighi)
Maurizio Spagni   Antiche danze e arie per liuto, suite 2   (Respighi)   
Maurizio Spagni   Antiche danze e arie per liuto, suite 3   (Respighi)   
Richard Woodroffe   Klage D415   (Schubert)

If you would like to be notified every time the Scriptorium is updated, please send an e-mail  requesting Scriptorium Update    notification to nwcscriptorium "at" gmail "dot" com

https://nwc-scriptorium.org/whatsnew.html


Stay safe 

Richard
14
General Discussion / Re: Differing configurations/spacings in a single piece of music
Last post by Bart -
Thank you, Opagust.
The boundary offset option is also very useful for songs with a refrain and several verses.

In the past I always moved the lyrics of the verses and of the refrain into separate staves with hidden rests (but with option to always show lyrics), and layering on a staff with music. With the collapse options, I could then to achieve the same result, but by playing with the boundary offset it is even easier.

Your solution for score that starts with a refrain and four verses goes as follows:
Put the lyrics for the refrain in the lowest lyric line and reduce the boundary (which defaults to 26) to 12.
In this case you cannot set the lyrics off for the refrain, since it is needed for at least one line, so the underscore trick is needed where for the lines where you don't want to pop up the refrain. If the refrain were at the end, no underscores would be needed.

Bart
15
General Discussion / Re: Differing configurations/spacings in a single piece of music
Last post by Opagust -
You can try the following:

First: Select the entire intro, press <Alt><Enter> to get the Notation Properties pop-up, go to the 'Notes' tab and select 'Never' under 'Lyric Syllable'. Then you can remove the extra spaces before the lyrics.

Second: At the start of the staff: 'Insert/Boundary Change...' and select 'Set new boundary offset' and lower the 'Lower' value.

Third: at the end of the intro: 'Insert/Boundary Change...', 'Reset Default'.

Finally: Go to 'Print Preview' to see the result and adjust until a good enough result.
16
General Discussion / Differing configurations/spacings in a single piece of music
Last post by Solong -
Possibly asked before but I can't find it! I have a 5 verse song with the verses under the staff - no problem, but I also have a long intro which ends up widely spaced since the Lyric configuration applies to everything. For years I've been putting numerous spaces before the start of the lyrics to get them in the right place but, of course, the staves in the intro remain very widely spaced.
So: is there a better way of doing this? Is it possible to only apply the Lyrics and Lyric configuration to the piece of music they apply to and thus have the long intro print without huge spaces?
18
User Tools / Re: NWCCONVERTOR
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
I have to add that Gust's converter is also far more up to date than the Niversoft one.
For goodness sake - Gust's one even accounts for the many plugins that have been written by users , not by NWC themselves.

A superb conversion program both into and out of NWC.

It seems that there may not be further updates of the NWC program (it doesn't seem like it does it  - about 9 or 10 years since the last one I think)- such a pity- however, had there been more upgrades, one of the ones that I would have wanted would have been to include Gust's converter into the native NWC program.

So sad that we have had no upgrades for years.

R,
19
Object Plugins / Re: Acciaccatura.ms (version 1.4)
Last post by David Palmquist -
Just getting back into notation - downloaded a PDF of marching band parts for Porter's Catalina Band, which was written around 120 years ago.  When my band played it in the 1960s, I was fairly new to my instrument, and my part terrified me.  I recently found the PDF online, and my current bandmistress has agreed to try it for our summer outdoor concerts.

The original version has outdated instrumentation such as Db piccolo, Eb Horns, etc.  but I found a somewhat updated version in  Musescore.  He didn't do all the parts, but it's a breeze to download the MusicXML version, translate to NWCText with Niversoft, and work in NWC2.  Beauty.

The only problem is the articulations didn't carry through, so it will take a couple of hours to change them all.  No worries.

My reason to write is to thank Mike for his Acciaccatura object.  Works like a dream and it's going to save my eyesight, bigtime.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

20
General Discussion / Re: Scriptorium Update
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
Folks
The Scriptorium has been updated with works submitted by :

Maurizio Spagni   Gitana - caprice pour la harpe, op. 21   (Hasselmans)
Maurizio Spagni   Guitare - pièce charactéristique, op. 45    (Hasselmans)
Richard Woodroffe   Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt "Sehnsucht" D310   (Schubert)


If you would like to be notified every time the Scriptorium is updated, please send an e-mail  requesting Scriptorium Update    notification to nwcscriptorium "at" gmail "dot" com

https://nwc-scriptorium.org/whatsnew.html

Stay safe 

Richard