Additional small stave
Is there any way of doing this in Musescore?
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You get a small stave via stave properties
OK thanks, I'm aware of small stave in stave properties, but perhaps I didn't explain myself properly. I want to add just a few bars of additional small stave to show alternative notation for the few bars covered, as shown in the picture. I can't find a way to do this in Musescore.
In reply to OK thanks, I'm aware of small by Peter B
That too is possible with a combination of a horizontal frame and hide empty staves
OK thanks for that, but I'm still not quite there.
The 'hide empty staves' function hides only complete empty staves, so if the additional small stave has, say, 6 bars on one line only 4 of which have notes in them, then the two empty bars on that line will not be hidden and will show as empty bars. Also, a horizontal frame spans both the additional small stave and the original large stave, so I'm afraid I don't understand how a horizontal frame can be used here. I should therefore be most grateful if you could explain the use of a horizontal frame in this context.
Thanks
In reply to OK thanks for that, but I'm by Peter B
upload what you have so far and I'll try to show you.
Edit: another possibility: make these empty bars invisble
OK thanks for your help, I've uploaded an example based on the picture.
When arranging for my sax quartet I sometimes notate alternative passages to suit the abilities of different players. In the attached example the original solo passage is on the large stave, and the simpler alternative solo passage is on the small stave.
What I would like to be able to do is have the small stave start where it starts with no bars before it, and end where it ends with no bars after it. Is this possible?
(I forgot to put the key signature on the small stave in the example, but that's not important here)
In reply to OK thanks for your help, I've by Peter B
The term for what you're doing is "ossia". If you do a search of these forums on that term, you should turn up a few relevant threads discussing workarounds for the fact that MuseScore does not yet support these directly. I think you're on the right track here; it's a matter of playing with measure properties to make the empty measures invisible
In reply to The term for what you're by Marc Sabatella
I'm not sure it is an ossia.
In reply to I'm not sure it is an ossia. by chen lung
Yes it is an ossia
In reply to Yes it is an ossia by ChurchOrganist
As per wikipedia it looks like one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossia
In reply to As per wikipedia it looks like one by Jojo-Schmitz
Perhaps I'm wrong.
The pictures I've seen indicate a smaller box that isn't part of a system of instruments, etc (unlike this ). However, I now see that is says 'alternative solo', so I suppose it is an Ossia.
In reply to OK thanks for your help, I've by Peter B
The hoizontal frame/hide empty staves doesn't work too well here (example1), works better when the additional stave is the bottom one, hiding bars might be the better option (example), although still not perfect (that initial overlong barline)
In reply to The hoizontal frame/hide by Jojo-Schmitz
For me, hiding bars is better option, and you can quit that initial barline, there's an option on Style --> General Style... Barlines
OK thanks both for your help - much appreciated.
Thanks very much for these two perfectly aceptable solutions.
I like the first one best as well, but could you please expalin how you have done it. I've been playing around for hours with hide stave and hide bars, but I can't achieve your example 2 result and there must be other hide functions that I am not accessing.
Sorry to be pain, but could you please take me through example 1 it step by step.
Thanks in advance.
In reply to Thanks very much for these by Peter B
select a bar, right-click, bar properties, then untic 'visible' for the save you want to hide.
You have to do this bar by bar, unfortunatly
Excellent, got that now, thanks very much indeed.