Two instruments with a single name and bracket.
I would like to set up my brass quintet score as shown in the screenshot. The two trumpets are joined with a bracket and a single name describes them. However, they are two separate players with separate parts. Is this possible?
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I would fake it.
Open stave/part properties (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/staff-part-properties) delete both short and long second trumpet's names and change the first trumpet's long name to
"
Trumpets in Bb" with four line breaks (enter key).
To add a bracket: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/brackets#adding-brackets
Hello! In the palette Brackets you will find the square bracket.
Creating the bracket is not the issue. (I found that right away.) The issue is, basically, the ability to add a section name. In this case, the "section" is two trumpets. My ultimate goal is to be able easily to recreate the score order of Le Sacre du Printemps. (See screenshot.) This has always been my test of whether I want to invest time into learning a music notation program: can it reproduce Le Sacre du Printemps. I am a Finale refugee, so less picky than before, but back in the day I stayed on Finale because Sibelius at that time could not do it. :lol.
If I had to drill into the exact feature that MuseScore does not seem to have, it is section names on brackets. The problem with creating them as instruments is that then it appears to be tedious to extract the separate parts. If there is a way to hide a single staff in an instrument, I haven't found it. But even then it would be an inelegant solution.
As I said I would fake it with line breaks (pointed by red arrows) and deleting another instrument's names.
In reply to As I said I would fake it… by PhysNoval
That's also my solution ...
In reply to That's also my solution ... by HildeK
English is not my native language.
I'm too young for the Rite of Spring but I have managed to create something vaguely similar to it.
Important notes:
1) Change Format/Page_Settings/Scaling/Stave_Space to 0.049 inches or something because that's what conductor scores tend to have.
2) That fermata above the slur looks awkward but I don't know how to fix it.
3) Stave/Part_properties//Hide_when_empty = "Always" for every staff of every instrument (see no. 5). That might take a while to do.
4) "Cutaway" should be unchecked.
5) To be able to place a name on a bracket you should create an instrument and populate it with staves https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/working-instruments#add-staff
5) Duplicate a part https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/parts#renaming-duplicating-and-dele… or create a new one by pressing the "Create new part" button.
5.1) Arrange the visibility of the staves in those parts to your liking (red arrows).
P.S. Oh. I have replied to a wrong comment. I see no way to delete and repost it. So be it.
Well... No offence, HildeK.