Mutliple movements?
The biggest feature I'm missing in MuseScore is the possibility to include (or at least simulate) multiple movements in the same score.
As far as I am concerned, this is largely a typographic issue: the bulk of the layout can be achieved with the existing building blocks (breaks, spacers, frames, etc.).
The really missing point are the naturals added (to 'turn off' the old key) to the new key signature when it is different from a movement to the following one. An option to turn them off would be welcome!
Thanks,
M.
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#4370: Disable courtesy key/time signatures for individual instance
In reply to You can subscribe to the by David Bolton
for instruments that can read from different clefs, there should be no courtesy clef at the end of a movement. Just setting it invisible can still throw the spacing off.
In reply to And Clefs by MDMilford
Thanks for mentioning this I hadn't thought about it. I added a note in the issue tracker.
Thanks for the replies, but I was referring to something more specific
David's post is the right topic, but there is still a (small?) point left uncovered:
Assume I have a movement in G major (Dur? maggiore? uff!) and the following one in G minor. If I concatenate them (adjusting the layout with breaks, spacers, etc.), in the key of the first system of the second movement, in addition to the flats of G minor, I get an F natural to 'turn off' G major. This is correct within a movement, but looks strange at the beginning of a new movement.
I'll add the point to David's issue.
Thanks,
M.
There has been some discussion already about adjusting the way key signatures are handled from one movement to another. Perhaps there could just be a "Movement Break" option, similar to the page break and section break and spacer, though a movement break would override the courtesy key signature at the end of the line and would restate the time signature if not changed.This would be valuable to serious composers and copyists, as well as to beginning instrumental music teachers like myself who often print several short "ditties" on a single page.
In reply to Movements: time signature by royschaeffer
is now available in the last versions (at least through svn or nightlybuild)
and it seems (to me) that any of the properties of "movement break" is given by the section break, isn't it?
see http://musescore.org/en/node/7176
In reply to section break by robert leleu
Thanks for the direction, Robert. It looks to me (typical end-user) as though the section break is still in the "nightly" stages. Once it becomes part of the regular release, the needs will have been met. I look forward it.
Interestingly enough, I found a work-around. Today I printed a single sheet for my beginning violinists. It contains three short (8 to 10 measure) melodies from seasonal songs. Format would be similar to sections or movements. All three are in 4/4 time. I opened the palette and dragged a "C" time signature to the second section, then a 4/4 to the last section, then a 4/4 to the second section where I had just placed the "C". Now the all show the 4/4 time signature, as preferred.
In reply to Section/Movement Break: work-around by royschaeffer
A nice workaround is to add an invisible measure before each movement and put this measure in different time sig and keysig than the next one.
In reply to A nice workaround is to add by [DELETED] 5
Brilliant! I'll try that one next. I also just read that I can right-click on the key signature and make it invisible. Tried it it worked fine.