06-29-2023, 07:59 PM
Hi Frode,
just to add to the ideas by McAroni and Geoff: I think there are 3 ways of achieving what you want:
The probably cleanest way would be in my eyes to cut up the music into the separate movements and arias and make all of them separate "Songs" in MuseScore. Then add them up in the right order in a setlist. That would have the benefit that you can keep all your markings and in case of a change of ordering that would be very easy in the end. But it takes a bit of work to create the different songs. I would recommend using the "Snippet" function (you find it when you open a song in the lower left corner, press the downward arrow and then there is the function "create snippet") for that rather than what Geoff said to reimport the score using a csv file, because with the snippet function you keep all your annotations.
The second way is what McAroni said: to put all the pdfs in one song, and referencing the pdf multiple times with different page ranges. In this case you have to be cautious to not lose your annotations! It might be the fastest way, but it has the downside that you can't easily take some of the things out of the context of your newly created "Song" if you perhaps perform a different order or selection the next time. You can also then use link points as Geoff said to jump from one page to another. Using link points is sometimes easier than erasing out a certain page range from the pdf and gives you more flexibility to add it back in - again without losing any annotations.
A third way that might be a compromise between doing it cleanly and fast would be to import every pdf differently and using SmartButtons instead of link points to jump inbetween. You find them in the lower right corner after opening a song - it's the 4th icon from the left. There is a Smart Button called "Load Song" where you can chose the other song and a certain page that is opened by clicking on the SmartButton. So you could navigate through everything using those.
As to your question of having empty sheets: You can do this in the first and third suggestion pretty easily by creating a new song as placeholder that only has a single empty page. In the second suggestion you can insert an empty page into your Song but only inbetween the pdfs with page ranges.
Malte
just to add to the ideas by McAroni and Geoff: I think there are 3 ways of achieving what you want:
The probably cleanest way would be in my eyes to cut up the music into the separate movements and arias and make all of them separate "Songs" in MuseScore. Then add them up in the right order in a setlist. That would have the benefit that you can keep all your markings and in case of a change of ordering that would be very easy in the end. But it takes a bit of work to create the different songs. I would recommend using the "Snippet" function (you find it when you open a song in the lower left corner, press the downward arrow and then there is the function "create snippet") for that rather than what Geoff said to reimport the score using a csv file, because with the snippet function you keep all your annotations.
The second way is what McAroni said: to put all the pdfs in one song, and referencing the pdf multiple times with different page ranges. In this case you have to be cautious to not lose your annotations! It might be the fastest way, but it has the downside that you can't easily take some of the things out of the context of your newly created "Song" if you perhaps perform a different order or selection the next time. You can also then use link points as Geoff said to jump from one page to another. Using link points is sometimes easier than erasing out a certain page range from the pdf and gives you more flexibility to add it back in - again without losing any annotations.
A third way that might be a compromise between doing it cleanly and fast would be to import every pdf differently and using SmartButtons instead of link points to jump inbetween. You find them in the lower right corner after opening a song - it's the 4th icon from the left. There is a Smart Button called "Load Song" where you can chose the other song and a certain page that is opened by clicking on the SmartButton. So you could navigate through everything using those.
As to your question of having empty sheets: You can do this in the first and third suggestion pretty easily by creating a new song as placeholder that only has a single empty page. In the second suggestion you can insert an empty page into your Song but only inbetween the pdfs with page ranges.
Malte