Notation Questions

• Mar 9, 2016 - 20:53

First off, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I've only been using the program for a few days.

I know in Noteflight you can select several notes at once and click/drag them to another pitch. The notes will adapt to whatever key the piece is in automatically.
But when I try to do this in MuseScore, the relative pitches stay the same, and several notes have accidentals. I've tried using the Transpose feature, but it still doesn't seem to do what I want (e.g., when I move notes up a step, a C#/D sequence would change to D#/E (or Eb/Fb) instead of D/E).
So my first question is this: Is there a way to change the pitch of a series of notes at once while keeping them in the same key (i.e. changing the relative pitches between consecutive notes)?

My second question has to do with the copy/paste feature: Is there a way to copy a series of notes from one voice on one staff to a different voice on a different staff?

Thanks in advance for any information you can give.


Comments

1) In addition to the "transpose diatonically" option within the dialog, you can also use Alt+Shift+Up/Down directly on a selection to transpose it by step diatonic. Or up/down to transpsoe by half step. Dragging shouldn't ever be needed, although I guess it does work.

2) In addition to the Selection Filter - which helps control what gets copied - see the Exchange commands Edit / Voices to move content between voices. You can use the selection filter to copy voice 2 to another staff, but it will end up still in voice 2, until you use exchange to move it to voice 1.

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