Preserving Cosmetic Changes Made to Full Score When Extracting Parts
I am a band teacher and I regularly make exercises for my students. I'll pose my question as a scenario:
I want to make an exercise for all instrument called "Scale Study"
It will have 10 instruments in the score
Each instrument needs to see 1 line of a Bb scale and 1 line of an Eb scale when they receive their individual parts
I insert a "Break" in the score after the Bb scale in the Flute part
This shows me what I want to see in the score (all parts have a break)
When I extract each individual part only the Flute part has the break. I must go into each part and apply the "Break" after the Bb scale in the other 9 parts.
Is there a way to apply the Break (or any other cosmetic [Volta] changes) to all the parts at once? It would save me a lot of time!
Thanks
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Comments
I think it's linked parts you need - that will be available in 2.0 (coming later this year).
In reply to I think it's linked parts you by chen lung
Although even then, I suspect what he is describing is a bit outside the normal scope of how such a system would work. Ordinarily - meaning in regular music, not exercise sheets - line breaks used for scores don't make sense for parts and vice versa. So I wouldn't necessarily expect the linked parts facility to provide a mechanism to make line breaks set in the score affect the parts. I'm not saying it would be a bad idea to have such a facility; just observing that in most cases, that's kind of the opposite of what one would want.
In reply to Although even then, I suspect by Marc Sabatella
Interesting point you make. I never thought of it in that light because I don't care about how the scores looks, just how the parts look. Now I know why I have gotten so frustrated with Musescore at times; its primary goal is SCORE reading not PART reading (which is the exact opposite purpose I use it for); or perhaps I should say that its 1st priority is the score not the parts (which makes sense).
I guess I will continue to adjust the parts like I have in the past and hope a special feature can be developed in the future to save me some time.
In reply to Interesting point you make. by quicksilver88
It's not that MuseScore doesn't care how parts look - it is that in "usual" case (again, ordinary music as opposed to exercise sheets) there would be no reason in the world to assume that all parts should have their line breaks in the same places. In fact, that would be practically unheard of and completely unworkable most of the time. Consider, what if one part has nothing but whole notes, and the other has a steady stream of sixteenths? You might be able to fit 12 measures per line in the first part but only 3 in the second part. And the score would likely be printed in landscape orientation and at a smaller scaling factor, so it might end up fitting 8 measures per line. Totally different requirements for where the line breaks would be.
The way I could imagine things working is that line breaks added in the score would by default affect only the score, but there would be some sort of special flag you could set - or, just a different type of line break - that would force it to also apply to parts. I am unclear on how the linked parts facility 2.0 plans to deal with with differences in formatting between score and parts, but look forward to playing it more now that things seem to be relatively stable. At first glance playing with the currently nightly build, I didn't see any way to add a break that would affect the linked parts, but nor did I see a way to do *any* formatting changes (eg, dragging dynamics around) that would affect both score and parts.
In reply to It's not that MuseScore by Marc Sabatella
I agree, a different type of line break would be great!