score layout
I'm trying to write a piece where a solo voice starts and then a 4-part choir enters after a while. I've set up the score for a single voice. How can I append several measures of 2-staffs for the choir?
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Press "i".
Add a piano staff.
Then "Hide empty staves".
In reply to Press "i". Add a piano by xavierjazz
Thanks. But where do I find "Hide empty staves"?
In reply to Thanks. But where do I find by aroth
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#style-edit-gene…
In reply to https://musescore.org/en/hand by kuwitt
Style>General
A bit down the page.
In reply to Style>General A bit down the by xavierjazz
Got it. Thanks.
In reply to Got it. Thanks. by aroth
In my case, I found that reading through the manual a few times really helped. Perhaps you have and missed it.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook
Best regards,
In general, it is better practise to score choral works with each voice on its own staff. That way you can extract individual parts for the singers after you're done. If you combine multiple voices on single staves, such as soprano + mezzo on staff 1, and tenor + bass on staff 2, you won't be able to do that unless you later 'explode' the voices to separate staves (in which case you might as well have done it that way to begin with). Remember that multi-voice notation is inherently more complex to write and to read than is single-voice.
There is no labour-savings in writing multiple parts on single staves; quite the contrary. The most common reason for doing so is when publishing very large works scored for full symphony orchestra and chorus with soloists. In those cases, the vertical space saved by combining parts can make the difference between getting an entire system on a standard page or having to print on ledger (or larger) sheets.