Pitch range select
Is there a way to select all notes in a staff by pitch range, for instance, Highlight all notes in this staff from F3 to F4?
This would be useful in evaluating a part's tessitura.
If it can't be done currently, maybe it should be a feature.
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You can't and I agree it should be a feature.
In reply to You can't and I agree it… by mike320
Glad to see this issue resurface.
The recommendation and request for "pitch range" selection in MuseScore appeared a few times in a recent discussion on Scordatura.
scorster
In reply to The request for a The… by scorster
Not an issue yes (as fat as the issue tracker is concerned)...
In reply to Not an issue yes (as fat as… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks jojo. I just posted the request here.
Not sure if I got all the issue tracker settings right. I'll read up on that soon.
Scorster
In reply to Thanks jojo. I just posted… by scorster
Or #312925: Recommendation and request for "pitch range" selection in MuseScore ;-)
Perhaps this may be of some value:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/early-music-features-0#ambitus
In reply to Perhaps this may be of some… by Jm6stringer
Thanks for the reply. I knew about the ambitus but not about changing it with the Inspector. Trying it out though doesn't seem to do what I was thinking of. What would be really useful would be to be able to highlight all notes in a given staff from one pitch to another, and this doesn't seem to be something you can do with the inspector.
The nearest I can get to what I want is to select the whole staff and look at the piano keyboard, but that doesn't tell you the "focal point" around which most of the notes are organized, which is what's needed to analyze tessitura.
In reply to Thanks for the reply. I… by jcorelis
What you could try to soften your pain in the meantime is to open up the staff properties of the staff to analyse and change the amateur range for it. If you have the color notes outside range preference enabled you'll at least get some on-staff visible feedback
In reply to What you could try to soften… by jeetee
That's clever!
The two colors (amateur/professional) can be utilized as in:
"Here's my comfortable (singing) range... and I can tolerate reaching no more than a third higher, and definitely not going lower at all."
In reply to That's clever! The two… by Jm6stringer
This won't print though
In reply to This won't print though by Jojo-Schmitz
Won't matter when display tablets replace paper, and MuseScore is used universally....
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In reply to Won't matter when display… by Jm6stringer
If that tablet is running Windows, macOS or Linux and the MuseScore program, as the mobile app for Android and iOS won't show it either, nor do the exported PDFs (which is what I use on my (Android) tablet(s))
In reply to If that tables is running… by Jojo-Schmitz
Whaat...?
Today' s tablets can not run full featured OSes? With full featured (desktop version) programs?
I don't mean Kindle, or (dedicated) pdf readers, or mobile apps which require low octane versions due to the low caliber of hardware.
I guess the wait will be longer...
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In reply to Whaat...? Today' s tablets… by Jm6stringer
As mentioned, depends on the tablet. WIndows tablets run Windows programs, yes. But iOS tablets run only iOS programs, and Android tablets run only Android programs. ChromeOS tablets run only ChromeOS programs, but that also includes Android and Linux, so that's actually pretty flexible. Linux also can be installed on any Windows tablet. Not sure there are any tablets that run macOS - yet...