Splitting organ part into instruments
Hi brains trust,
I've just notated an organ part with 2 staves of two voices each - 1, 2, 3 and 4. Now I'd like to copy each voice individually across parts for various transposing instruments (trumpet, trombone etc). I tried selecting a voice and then copy-and-pasting to an instrument's stave, but nothing happened when I pasted. How do I do this?
Thanks!
Comments
Hard to say what might have gone wrong just from that description - best to attach your score and give precise steps to reproduce the problem. Then we can understand and assist better. As it is, my best guess is that you made a "list" selection (eg, Select / More / Same voice) rather than a range selection (with blue box around it, using the View / Selection Filter to limit by voice. But FWIW, also look into the Tools / Explode command (see Handbook under Tools for more info).
In reply to Hard to say what might have… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc. Explode did the trick.
"Two staves of two voices each - 1, 2, 3 and 4".
I think you have made the common mistake of not using voice 1 in one of your staves. Each stave can have up to four voices, but they should be used in numerical order starting from 1 for each stave. Voice 3 is available in the rare case that you have 3 rhythmically independent parts on a stave and voice 4 for the very rare case that you have 4 rhythmically independent parts.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices for a description of how voices should be used.