Full measure rest
I’m re-entering music for male voices TTBB as per attached.
At one point (bars 2 to 6) the second bass voice is silent so I want to enter full measure rests for voice 2, but how?
I have a full measure rest in bar 1, a rest hanging from a line and centred in the measure. The on-line manual says “To create a full measure rest, select a measure and press Del.”
So, I go to measure 2, Type “N” (for note entry), Select 2 from the voice menu, which gives me a green cursor on the first beat of measure 2. I press “Del” and the last note of bar 2 (the G of the FIRST voice changes to a crotchet rest and the green cursor says where it is on the first beat of measure 2. )
I don’t understand why that should happen, can anyone enlighten me?
And how do I enter a full measure rest into the second voice?
PS I know I can enter a dotted minim rest in each measure as I have in measure 3, but it looks ugly and I’d rather have the centred full measure rest which would replicate the copy from which I’m working (produced by Sibelius, I believe).
How do I do it? Is it even possible?
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To create a full measure rest, it's not by pressing Del, but: Ctrl + Shift + Del (re-read the manual maybe)
So, first enter the dotted minim rest in each bar (Voice 2) you want, ie bars 2 to 6, after selecting the dotted minin value and pressing "O" five times.
This: Full_Measure_rest A.mscz
Then, select the whole measures 2 to 6, and press one time: Ctrl + Shift + Del
Result: Full_Measure_rest B.mscz
EDIT: you may avoid the first step (dotted minim rest in each bar), and replace by: select the second bar -> Voice 2 -> Ctrl + Shift + Del, and then doing the same thing, for others bars by navigating with right arrow.
In terms of time, the two ways are quasi similar.
This issue was fixed in MuseScore 2.0.3:
https://musescore.org/en/node/25731
and:
https://musescore.org/en/node/25763
So be sure you are using the latest version.
Regards.
To accomplish what you want:
1. Select the offending dotted half rest in m.2 (NOT in note-entry mode)
2. Press 'Delete'. This will delete that rest and Voice 2 from that measure.
3. Select the two first measures
4. In the main menu, click on Edit>Voices>Exchange Voice 1-2. This will create a new instance of Voice 2 and put all the material in Voice 1 into it.
5. Finally, exchange the voices again and you should see this: