Hiding empty measures
I am working with a 3-part choir and piano score. The piano begins with LH only but when I hide the 20+ empty opening measures of the vocal parts (Format -> style -> score -> hide empty staves within systems), musescore also hides the piano treble clef staff. How can I show the entire piano staff and hide only the empty vocal staves?
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See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/staff-part-properties#common-staff-…
and look for the 'Hide when empty' section for 'Instrument' - where the staff is hidden only if all staves for that instrument are empty.
Depending on the specifics, it might instead be reasonable to not use hide empty staves globally at all, but instead set "Hide when empty" to "Always" just for the vocal staves.
In reply to Depending on the specifics,… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, this seemed to work better for me. The only issue I had was that then the full part title does not appear when the vocal part begins. i.e. the staff will be titled "I" instead of "Part I". Is there a way to edit the title of only one staff? I know how to edit the full & short titles but that didn't seem to fix this.
In reply to Yes, this seemed to work… by Marci Rose
Good point. I think what you’d need to do is mark the name invisible on that system then fake it with a staff text. Maybe someone else has a better idea?