Hide empty bars
I am writing a piece for SATB and piano, the first few bars are only piano and I want to hide the bars from the voices until they start. I tried editing the style, by ticking the "hide empty bars" box but then it hides ALL the empty bars in the score. I want to save space at the start of the score because in some pieces they are too long, and that's 2-3 pages lost for no reason, plus, it's not useful for the pianist. How can I hide only the first choral bars and save space?
Thank you
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This is an example of the scores I'm trying to edit.
There's no such Thing as 'hide empty bars", do you mean "hide empts staves?
If so; this hides staves that are empty in a system, so won't do much in continuous view.
But even then it only shortens your score from 22 to 21 pages, so doesn't really buy much.
Using 'decrease stretch' can shrink it down to 16 pages.
In reply to There's no such Thing as by Jojo-Schmitz
Empty bars - empty staves, same thing. My problem is, I want to hide the empty ones at the start to make it easier for the pianist, who in my case, won't have anyone to turn her pages. The rest I can decrease stretch and be cool with it. What I want to do is to have only the piano score on the first page.
In reply to Empty bars - empty staves, by Nadia Hor
In this way?
But you could use Parts: File/Parts... https://musescore.org/en/handbook/part-extraction
In reply to In this way? But you could by Shoichi
Very close to that. The problem is, it hides the empty staves, but once the voices start, I don't want it to. I want hidden only the first few bars where there are no voices and just piano. In the rest of the score I want both. I don't want the empty soprano bars to disappear and then reappear when they have notes. I want hidden only the first part where it's just the piano.
In reply to Very close to that. The by Nadia Hor
OK, MuseScore can only do the opposite, hide empty staves, except in 1st System.
Unless you lcae some notes in thsoe otherwise empty stages amd make them invisible and silten, that is.
But again: if doesn't buy you saved pages turns
In reply to OK, MuseScore can only do the by Jojo-Schmitz
That's where I'll have to get crafty and cut the pieces and stick them on a piece of paper, edit the colours and have it printed like that. Thanks for the help anyway, much appreciated.
In reply to Empty bars - empty staves, by Nadia Hor
No, an empty staff (UK) or stave (US) consists of one or more empty bars (UK) or measures (US).
But yes, you can switch on 'hide empty staves', just for this particulat score it doesn't buy you mich, it saves 1 of 22 page turns, no more. Reducing stretch saves 6 of these 22 page turns.
Using 'hide empty staves' on top, doesn't gain anything.
In reply to No, an empty staff (UK) or by Jojo-Schmitz
Singular in US is "staff" as well.
In reply to Singular in US is "staff" as by Isaac Weiss
Staff is singular, staves is the plural. Same as scarf-scarves.
In reply to Singular in US is "staff" as by Isaac Weiss
I mixed it up. in British English it is stave, staves, in American English it is staff, staves
In reply to No, an empty staff (UK) or by Jojo-Schmitz
What I wanted to say was not to stick to the details, you understood what I meant anyway.
In reply to What I wanted to say was not by Nadia Hor
Well, you can hide a single bar/measure too
What about a multi-measure rest?
In reply to What about a multi-measure by underquark
They'd collaps a series of empty measures in a system not a single staff. Won't help here.