Divisi arrows in Musescore 4
Hi,
I've searched on google and within these forums and I can't find mention of it, so sorry if this is covered somewhere else. If it is, please tell me how to do it!
Otherwise, it'd be great to have divisi arrows. Let's say your soprano part splits in two for a few bars, with two very different parts. Rather than writing these on the same staff (messy!) you'd split them into two staves. But you'd have the second one hidden until the divisi passage.
It's custom on the system before the split occurs to show arrows indicating the split. Here's Dorico's documentation covering the feature (https://steinberg.help/dorico/v3/en/dorico/topics/notation_reference/no…)
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The are at the same place as in Mu3: in the symbols palette of the master palette
But yes, having them as real feature rather than a workaround would be great.
In reply to But yes, having them as real… by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo, I notice that the divisi arrows are outside the page margins, see picture.
Should they be inside? This can be forced by adding a horizontal frame but could MS do it automatically?
In reply to Jojo, I notice that the… by obeirnepr
Would be nice, at least as an option
But still, best request this on GitHub
In reply to Would be nice, at least as… by Jojo-Schmitz
Will do, I just posted another question where I noticed that adding a frame lost the courtesy accidentals.
In reply to Will do, I just posted… by probeirne
Yes, that's a separate issue and a bug
In reply to Yes, that's a separate issue… by Jojo-Schmitz
I've never seen such notation. Is this what you're looking for?
In reply to I've never seen such… by TheHutch
yes, without the too big indent
Fee free to request this at https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues
You're absolutely right, I hadn't realised the master palette was a thing in MS4!
I'm not sure I will raise a request - at the minute unless I'm missing something there's not a way to create a temporary staff split that is part of one instrument. Instead I'm creating two instruments that are the same instrument and then hiding one of them when the part is not divisi. That's fine, but I'm also fine just inserting the symbol now I know where it is. I don't see how the programme could do anything more intelligently given the lack of knowledge it has about the divisi part.
In reply to You're absolutely right, I… by technically_not
I'm not really following that, but you can certainly add a second staff to the existing instrument just as easily as you can add a second instrument. And then the same would apply in terms of how to hide it when empty.
In reply to You're absolutely right, I… by technically_not
The program doesn't need to know, if we'd had the abilits to tell it.
Having to restort to the master palette and to vertically dispace them and making sure that they happen at a system- or page break (or a frame) and doing so in main score and parts is pretty cumbersome a workaround (and one I've used several times in my scores)