Vocal Line and Lyrics
Would be nice if there was a way/easier way (if I haven't discoved how yet) to put SA and TB voices onto treble and bass staves, not have to separate each voice all the time. A little frustrating as a choral arranger. Also to be able to beable to invert lyrics over the neccessary notes when you do need to split a line would be nice, instead of having to drag workds above...I can never get straight lines out of them!!!
Many thanks
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Could explain more about what you mean? If the SA parts have different rhythms, using separate voices is the only possible way to do it, whether using MuseScore or pencil and paper. If they share the same rhythm, then you don't need separate voices; you can instead enter them as chords (multiple notes note on same stem) if you prefer. What is it exactly you are trying to do?
In reply to Could explain more about what by Marc Sabatella
I think what he means is that when you are working on paper in close score, you tend to work vertically putting in the notes for the parts, rather than horizontally adding a part at a time, which is the workflow that MuseScore follows. (In order to indicate which voice should sing which part, S & T use notes with tails up, and A & B use notes with tails down.)
Consequently you are constantly having to switch voices, which is a big faff in the current MuseScore UI.
Coming from Finale I had already adapted my workflow to suit the horizontal workflow, but to someone coming fresh to it from PnP it would be a big hurdle to overcome.
I have yet to work out how this could be overcome, unless a keypress in addition to entering the note switched entry to Voice 2, however as the UI stands the available key combinations of Shift, CTRL and ALT are all assigned to other actions.
One solution is to work in open score whilst composing then merge the parts into closed score when the piece is complete, but if you are using key note entry you then have the problem of switching parts - something that has already been mentioned here.
In reply to I think what he means is that by ChurchOrganist
I'm not sure such a key modifier would make sense. if you did hit some special key along with your note to tell it what voice to go to, how would it know where in the measure to go? That's normally the function of the cursor, but the cursor would be showing its position in the current voice, and that might not even be a legal place to enter a note in another voice.
And in any case, that would mean hitting the special key for every single note you enter in vocie 2. As opposed to the way it actually works - which is just like Finale and every other program I have seen or used - in which you only need to switch once a measure, or less.
Which is to say, while constantly switching voices note by note might make sense when working by hand, it seems a much more cumbersome and error-prone model for a computer program, which is probably why no computer programs I know work this way.
In reply to I'm not sure such a key by Marc Sabatella
It would work in mouse entry, in fact I have done it this way - enter the melody and bass then fill in the A & T parts vertically swiching from voice to voice - but I don't do this very often now as I have changed my workflow to suit Finale/MuseScore.