JMSL Score

Right click on a staff to enter a note

JMSL Score is a music notation package that ships with JMSL. Besides being an editor which lets you enter and arrange music in common music notation, it has an API for algorithmically adding notes to a score, and modifying existing material in a score. JScore is not a separate entity from JMSL; it is a fully integrated part of it. Thus, you can write a program that creates a score alorithmically and modifies a score dynamically in realtime (for example, Didkovsky's "Zero Waste for sight reading pianist" transcribed a live piano performance). There is also an API for building your own musical transformations and making these available directly in the JMSL Score menu (these operate on whatever is in the copy buffer).

This applet opens a Score window which can be edited and heard with an orchestra of JMSL/JSyn instruments. You must have the JSyn v140 plugin or higher!!! (released Aug 22, 2000) Earlier versions of JSyn will not work.

Internet Explorer users may have to resize score window when it first opens.

Useful keyboard shortcuts (that do not have menu equivalents). You must click anywhere on the score canvas itself to activate these.

Keystroke Windows	Keystroke Mac OSX	result
PAGE UP	PAGE UP	moves score graphics up by one staff
PAGE DOWN	PAGE DOWN	moves score graphics down by one staff
HOME	HOME	resets score graphics position
LEFT/RIGHT ARROW	LEFT/RIGHT ARROW	resize measure
SHIFT LEFT/RIGHT ARROW	SHIFT LEFT/RIGHT ARROW	resize measure faster
UP/DOWN ARROW	UP/DOWN ARROW	change space below selected staff
SHIFT UP/DOWN ARROW	SHIFT UP/DOWN ARROW	change space above selected staff
SPACE	SPACE	Stop playback
CTRL SPACE	CTRL SPACE	Play Section
CTRL SHIFT SPACE	CTRL SHIFT SPACE	Play all from beginning
CTRL F11	APPLEKEY SHIFT F11	mark current measure as section start
CTRL F12	APPLEKEY SHIFT F12	mark current measure as section start
DELETE KEY	DELETE KEY	deletes selected notes
click on first note, shift-click on last	click on first note, shift-click on last	Extended selection of notes

Features include:

Deploy your composition to www with a convenient supporting class. Users hear your piece exactly as you designed it if you use JSyn (ie no MIDI mapping issues)!
Open file format: Save/Load instruments, orchestras, and pieces in XML format.*
Export to San Andreas Press's SCORE Music Publishing System for professional printing.*
MusicXML export, for import into Finale with Dolet Plugin for Finale by Recordare, and other software that supports MusicXML *
Tightly coupled JSyn support with features like
1. the JMSL Instrument mixer which sets amp/pan values for each instrument.
2. Realtime instrument editing while Score is playing
3. Note-by-note control of JSyn synthesis
4. Import any JSyn SynthNote as a plugin and play it in a score
5. Various flavors of sample playing instruments ("one shot", transposing, sustaining)
6. Signal processing JSyn instruments and patch bay
7. Record to WAV file *
dots, double dots, ties, beams, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 tuplets, durations from whole note to 128th note.
fast vector graphics - score redraws quickly when zooming in and out.
Multiple score support; open more than one score and copy/paste between them.
Define up to 26 "sections", named A..Z for instant recall.
Measure repeats with user-settable repeat count
insert/delete/resize/realign measures
Set any instrument to any staff on any measure.
Unary Copy Buffer transforms: API for operating on notes in the Copy buffer. Examples include retrograde and scramble. Paste the results back into the score. Can deploy as plugin.
Binary Copy Buffer transforms: API for operating on notes in the 2 Aux Copy buffers. Examples include zipper interleave (alternating notes). Paste the results back into the score. Can deploy as plugin.
Score Operators: API to perform arbitrary operations on a score Can deploy as plugin.
Note Properties Transforms: API to perform operations on notes in place. Can deploy as plugin.
Various flavors of Paste such as Freeflow Paste (freeflow pours notes into a single staff, as one continuous stream).
Any integer time signature
Flashing notes (optional)
Looping playback (optional)
#/b accidental spelling preferences

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This applet uses pure Java JSyn (no plug-in required)
(C) 2000 Nick Didkovsky and Phil Burk, All Rights Reserved
JMSL is based upon HMSL (C) Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom.
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