These instructions assume that you have downloaded the relevant musicology fonts and installed them in Windows on your computer. These fonts are designed to be incorporated into the text flow of your standard (verbal) text files. If you need to import actual notation (music examples) into your text document, click here.

Example 1. MS Reference 1: sharp, flat and natural.

Let’s say you want to write the following two sentences.

1. The Fugue in C minor and the Prelude in B minor are among my favourites in Bach's Wohltemperiertes Klavier, book 1.

2. The third note in bar 2 should be b, not b!

Using the font MS Reference 1, the operation is very simple because pressing # produces , $ produces , and 8 produces . First type into Word

1. The fugue in C# minor and the prelude in B$ minor are among my favourites in Bach's Wohltemperiertes Klavier, book 1.

2. The third note in bar 2 should be b8, not b$!

Then highlight in turn each #, $ and 8 you want to turn into , and , like this:

In Word, select Format > Font.
Then highlight MS Reference 1.

Press OK.

It should look something like what you see next.

Example 2: Using MS Reference 2

This font works the same way in Word as MS Reference 1. It is useful for single-character time signatures. All you need to know is the following equivalents:

For complete key to font MS Reference 2, click here.

Example 3: Using Opus Text

On page 347 of Ten Little Title Tunes I literally wrote: “The Virginian’s museme 5a is in u, has two quaver upbeats (iq | e q.)”…

That makes very little sense unless you use the Opus Text font to format i, q and e; and MS Reference 2 to format the single u. Using the same technique as for MS Reference 1 but applying the fonts just mentioned appropriately, the words make more sense as:
”.

On page 336 I wrote, once again literally:

Having highlighthed ijjjq, I selected (in Word) Format > Font and selected the format Opus Text. That operation produced:

For complete key to the very useful Opus Text font, click here.

Example 4: Using MusiSync

This font works can be used in Word in the same way as MS Reference 1. It provides a wide range of rhythmic patterns and note values, for example (keyboard input left, results right):

For complete key to this vertalie MusiSync font, click here.