MuseScore MusicXML project

This project aims to develop MuseScore Studio further into a feature complete MusicXML editor.

Overview of PRs and new features

You can get a full overview of all connected pull requests that have been opened to upstream MuseScore Studio. You will find more branches in active development on my fork.

[!NOTE] I'm also contributing to the MEI support of MuseScore Studio.

List of features, improvements, and fixes

For 3.x [New features from MusicXML 3.1]

• add support for Gould arrow quarter tone accidentals https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6263
• add support for all fermata symbols https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6560

For 4.x

• add support for turn with slash
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/17300 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27412
• extended export of key accidentals (e.g. Persian) https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/18540
• add extended support for colors
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/19132 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20952 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21433 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25893 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26006 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26773 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27384 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27571 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29577
• export for all supported SMuFL noteheads https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/19506
• add support for system dividers and appearance https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/19696
• add import of fermatas on bar lines https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20213
• add support for sostenuto pedal https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20219
• fix export of invisible spanners https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20225
• extended export of technical elements https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20252
• export all available types of trills https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20285
• support for group-symbol color and group-barline
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20952 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26006
• add possibility to export scores in concert pitch https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21075
• support for chord symbol color, visibility and placement https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21362
• export accidentals on ornaments https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21364
• add support for changes between swing and straight rhythms
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21536 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27040
• add support for invisible lyrics https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21561
• export beams starting or ending on rests https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21602
• fixed invalid MusicXML with empty figured bass https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21772
• add support for harp pedals
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/21828 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28169
• add support for staff sizes https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/22154
• add support for part-name-display https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/22322
• improve import of invisible notes https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/22943
• properly export Nashville numbers and Roman numerals https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/24174
• export tempo as system text https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25312
• export all instrument changes
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/24932 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25615 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29540
• extend support of notations https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25869
• add full support for Harmon mute symbols https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25888
• add support for notehead-text element
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25916 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26911
• import ornaments as ornament objects https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25870
• add full support for holes element https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25932
• add full support for hand bells https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/25934
• add support for single number time signatures https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26111
• add support for line styles of slides https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26559
• add support for staff line details
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26472 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26856
• export Bezier points for slurs https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26568
• add positioning attributes to breath marks, fingerings and articulations https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26723
• extend metadata support https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26770 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28333
• add guitar golpe and brass half-muted indications to import https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26771
• align import and export of natural harmonics glyph https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26801
• add support for guitar tap https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26855 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29003
• full support for hook endings on dashed lines
  https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/19455 https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26876
• export correct bpm for "a tempo" and "tempo primo" https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26927
• import feathered beams https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/26990
• add support for accidental size https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27387
• add support for invisible notations https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27422
• add import of shake element https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27426
• add export of invisible tempo changes https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27538
• add support for layout of rehearsal marks https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27679
• add limited support of part name color and visibility https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27843
• extend semantic encoding of technical symbols https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/27919
• improve tempo import from Dorico https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28052
• allow export of text time signatures https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28156
• export tremolo bar symbols https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28170
• add support for hairpin style https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28221
• improve tab and percussion clef handling https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28231
• add support for hammer-on and pull-off https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28251
• add support for time signatures across staves https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/28334
• import string-mute element https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29263
• improve logic for visibitlity of lyrics https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29277
• add export of polychords https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29362
• add support for text articulations https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/29447

List of newly supported elements

Here is a list of those elements for which support has now been added.

• <accidental-mark>
• <appearance>
• <concert-score>
• <encoder>
• <first>
• <golpe>
• <group-barline>
• <group-time>
• <hammer-on>
• <handbell>
• <harmon-closed>
• <harmon-mute>
• <harp-pedals>
• <hole>
• <hole-closed>
• <instrument-change>
• <left-divider>
• <line-detail>
• <line-width>
• <measure-distance>
• <measure-layout>
• <miscellaneous>
• <miscellaneous-field>
• <music-font>
• <mute>
• <note-size>
• <notehead-text>
• <numeral>
• <numeral-root>
• <numeral-alter>
• <part-name-display>
• <part-abbreviation-display>
• <play>
• <pull-of>
• <right-divider>
• <second>
• <source>
• <staff-size>
• <staff-type>
• <straight>
• <string-mute>
• <swing>
• <swing-type>
• <system-dividers>
• <tap>
• <with-bar>