Piano Reduction
I am writing an a cappella piece for SATB and am wanting to put a piano reduction of the parts in the score for rehearsal purposes. Is this a feature that MuseScore offers?
Thanks for any help you can offer!
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you mean you want to have the 4 voices of SATB on the 2 staves or a piano?
See http://musescore.org/en/node/12345, then right-click the staves, staff properties, change instrument, piano
Or if you entered the music originally as four separate staves, then you could combine them into groups of twos by moving the alto & bass parts to voice 2 (edit / voice / exchange vocie 1-2) then copy the contents of the soprano part onto alto and tenor onto bass.
In reply to Or if you entered the music by Marc Sabatella
Ok, that worked (and it's quite easy and fast once I understand the process.)
However, when I changed the bass line to V2, MuseScore inserted a whole V1 of rests. I understand why, but, now that I've copied it to the reduction I'd like to reverse that process - so that the bass line in the vocal section (now V2) becomes V1 again and the rests go away. Edit Voice gives all the choices to "raise" the voice number - but how to lower it?
Thanks
(Oh and in the message system, trying to enclose keystrokes in the angle brackets makes it go away. Finally figured that out too.)
And went back and noticed that you use parethesis, not angle brackets. Duh.
In reply to Ok, that worked (and it's by Roger Priddle
Same way you "raised" it. "Exchange" is just that - a trade. So what was in voice 1 becomes voice 2 and vice versa. Your rests will now be in voice 2, and then you can delete them (eg, right click on, select / all similar, delete).
In reply to Same way you "raised" it. by Marc Sabatella
Right - thanks. I actually figured that out while you were replying. The other thing I figured out - I thought I was using Shift Scroll to move down the score horizontally - was that if you miss the Shift key and hit Ctrl instead, Scroll changes the size. Never knew that either. don't know if it words that way in other Windows apps, but it's very useful in MuseScore.
You might want to include in the manual the note to not extend the selection too far. I read the Voice Exchange as meaning V1 would become V2... therefore, I could be casual about my selection since it would all just end up V2. Never occurred to me that it could exchange both ways - that V2 would become V1. Ugh - I have some cleanup to do.
In reply to Right - thanks. I actually by Roger Priddle
The ctrl+scroll thing works on nearly every program ever made for windows, mac, and all three Linux based OSes
In reply to Same way you "raised" it. by Marc Sabatella
OK - finally read carefully, esp. the "right click on" (grin). "Select all similar on same staff" (brilliant BTW to be able to specify only that staff!)
Used that to select all the v1 rests that I don't want and they are all selected. So far so good.
Tried to delete them. Tried "Del" key, tried "cut" - seem to be still there. Notes are V2, Rests are V1.
Went to lyrics that were copied into piano reduction - select 1st word, rt. click, select all similar. Delete. Gone.
Yipee.
Not sure why I can't delete the rests I don't want... but I love playing with this! And bugging you...!
More info. when all rests are selected, the only thing Del or cut seems to do is Deselect the rests. Don't know if that's useful.
In reply to OK - finally read carefully, by Roger Priddle
As I mentioned previously, you have to first move exchange the voices to put the notes back onto voice 1, and the rests into voice 2. *Then* you can delete the rests, in voice 2. Voice 1 has to always be complete - MuseScore will not let you delete its contents.
In reply to As I mentioned previously, by Marc Sabatella
Ah - many thanks - I didn't catch that point.
Voice 1 has to be complete in every staff always then.
That's why it filled with rests, I guess.
Yup - worked like a dream