Changing key without changing the notes
Hi,
I made a mistake in copying a score.I have copied all notes of the original as they look on paper.
By mistake I put the piece in the key D Major but it's actually in E Major.
I know how to change the key of the piece, but when I do this some notes which I wrote in the score (which looked fine 'on paper') will get an accidental sign (like the D).
What I want it to become is that the score itself doesn't change, but only the key signature.
Is this possible in MuseScore ?
Comments
Transpose, http://musescore.org/en/handbook/transposition
In reply to Transpose, by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the quick reply, but I don't want to transpose anything in fact. I want it to stay as it is now, at least the way the notes look in the score.
I only want to change the key signature.
If the notes are in the same place as they are on the paper but you entered them with the wrong key signature in place then you have not entered the same notes because when you enter a "note" in MuseScore this gets converted to a pitch and this is determined in part by the position of the note and in part by the existing key signature. In 1.3 you may just have to accept it and change the notes. In 2.0 you can experiment with diatonic transposition upwards and then "normal" transposition downwards.
In reply to If the notes are in the same by underquark
I know the notes are note 'the same'. I know that when I would play the score in MuseScore it wouldn't sound right.
What I meant is that if I would print this score and change the key signature on the paper, people would play it correctly.
I don't think a transposition would do the trick in this case.
I assume my mistake cannot be changed with in one go so I started to do it manually by changing the accidentals manually over the whole score.
Thanks anyway.
If I understand you correctly, it sounds like your title is misleading - you *do* want the notes changed. Right now, you have, for example the note G nautral in the key of D major, and you want it changed to G# when you change the key, so it won't need an accidental. I think that is what you are agreeing on above.
There is no direct command for correcting this, but in 2.0 builds at least, if your music is relative simple - not many accidentals - you could after changing the key hit Shift+Up then Shift+Down. That transposes *diatonically*. End result will be all notes back to their original lines and spaces, no accidentals. Of course, this kills any accidentals that you *intended* to be there as well, which is why I say it's only going to be effective for simple mostly-diatonic diatonic music.
In reply to If I understand you by Marc Sabatella
For anyone with a similar problem and using a recent MS 2.0 build:
Example 1
1] The key has been incorrectly set as D Major
2] The notes have been copied from a piece in E Major and the on-screen notes are in the same place as on the paper, so you change the key signature to four sharps.
3] Select all and Up-Arrow twice.
4] Select all and Transpose - Diatonically - Down by a Second with the "Keep degree interval" box checked.
Example 2
1] The key has been incorrectly set as C Major (i.e. you forgot to set any sharps).
2] The notes have been copied from a piece in E Major and the on-screen notes are in the same place as on the paper including - in this case - a B flat, for which you have entered an accidental, so you now add a key signature with four sharps.
3] Select all and Up-Arrow four times (C -> C# -> D -> D# -> E).
4] Select all and Transpose - Diatonically - Down by a Third with the "Keep degree interval" box checked.
5] A final tweak by Up-Arrow followed by Down-Arrow corrects the B flat accidental.
Also, for anyone with a similar or many other - queries, it is often helpful to attach a copy of the score.