Cannot get divisi choral parts

• May 12, 2021 - 20:55

I had previously, with Version 3, been able to divide my Altos and so on, with two lines and note tails behaving. Now, by the trick of making a new note entry, can create only 'chords' - not independent lines. Once line I managed it, by clicking the 1234 parts option/tool; but it isn't consistently working; 90% of the time it is not allowing the Choir Sections to be written for divisi. How can this be resolved?

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Comments

For independent lines you need to use voices. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices

Note, here the term "voice" just means an independent line. It has nothing particularly to do with sopranos, altos, tenors or basses. Any piece of music can have a number of voices - independent lines - even piano music and with no singers in sight.

Also note that every stave has up to 4 voices and each one should have at least voice 1. A common mistake is to use voice 1 and 2 on stave 1 and then voices 3 and 4 on stave 2 etc. Use voice 1 and 2 on stave 1 and voice 1 and 2 on stave 2 etc.

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