up/down buttons in "staff part properties" wrong
The up/down buttons in staff part properties need to be reversed (or text changed).
The "up" button moves notes down in pitch, and vice-versa.
am using ver 3.6.2.548021
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I don't think you can move notes from "staff/part properties".
In reply to I don't think you can move… by bobjp
I think he' s referring to:
In reply to I think he' s referring to: … by Shoichi
Yes. But it is the difference between these settings and those achieved by
"transpose perfect octave" up/down in the "transpose drop down" that I am referring to.
I expect up/down to behave the same in both panels/panes/places, etc.
In reply to I don't think you can move… by bobjp
Try it. I can. BUT the real Q is does one mean
1) move up/down the display of the notes, or
2) move up/down the pitch of the notes.
If you are, in fact, referring to the buttons in the 'Transposition' area of Part Properties, consider this example:
![Transposition.png]( "Transposition.png")
The transposition is one octave down, so it sounds lower than written.
If one has notes already notated and uses Staff/Part Properties to transpose down, the notes will move up (in order to maintain the same sounding pitches as those already entered).
Compare this to transposing with Tools -> Transpose... which, when transposing, e.g., by interval, will actually move the notes and also change their pitches. So, transposing 'down' a perfect octave will move the displayed notes 'down' and play them as written -- now an octave lower.
In reply to If you are, in fact,… by Jm6stringer
So the Staff/Part Properties transpose settings are more akin to defining where middle C appears on
the staff?
In reply to So the Staff/Part Properties… by dpenny
In written pitch... (not concert pitch)
Middle C (C4) will appear on the staff in the same place for all instruments.
For a pianist, when played, it will sound as C4. (Non transposing)
For a guitarist, it will sound as C3. (octave lower)
For Bb clarinet, it will sound as B3. (major second lower)
The setting in question controls how much higher or lower a note sounds compared to how it is written. It is assumed - as is the case probably 90% of the time people would use these controls - that you entered the pitch at the correct sounding pitch, but now you want to change the written pitch (like to change from Bb to A clarinet). So any change here affects only the written pitch. If the old transposition was 0, and you change it to "1 octave down", you are telling MuseScore to change the written pitch to be as appropriate for an instrument that sounds an octave below written. Meaning, it will transpose the written pitch up indeed.
This is all consistent normal way transpositions are specified. For example, a Bb clarinet is called that because is sounds a major second lower than written (pitches in transposing instrument names are normally intended to represent how a written "C" sounds on that instrument).