possible celesta error

• Nov 23, 2012 - 08:42
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore
  • I'm perplexed by Musescore's automatic transposing of celesta parts down two octaves. I could certainly be wrong here, but I've always written celesta parts to be transposed one octave. Just now I checked some of the major orchestral sites, and they seem to agree that the celesta transposes a single octave. For example, look at the Vienna Symphony's celesta page (http://www.vsl.co.at/en/70/3196/3204/3207/5751.vsl).
  • One of the problems with transposing a celesta down two octaves is that you are likely to end up with notes far below the bass clef, which are hard to read -- not to mention that it's unclear just how one is to enter a celesta part when it's posting notes so far in the basement.

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• Nov 23, 2012 - 08:59

I will take care of this during the current overhaul of Instruments.xml

It is one of a number of anomalies and discrepancies within the file, which is the main configuration file for all the instruments in MuseScore.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention

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• Nov 26, 2012 - 15:24
Status (old) active ⇒ patch (code needs review)

The definition has now been amended and will go up with the pull request when the file has been completely edited.

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• Mar 21, 2013 - 19:12

Just tested the celesta and it looks wrong. It's on two treble clefs, the range is too small and there is no transposition.
The range should be C3-F8 (48-113?) according to this page and the transposition is wrong because the instruments.xml mentions clef 15va, the right name is 15ma. So celesta should be one of 

                 <Instrument id="celesta">
			<longName>Celesta</longName>
			<shortName>Cel.</shortName>
			<description>Celesta</description>
			<staves>2</staves>
			<clef>G15ma</clef>
			<bracket>1</bracket>
			<bracketSpan>2</bracketSpan>
			<barlineSpan>2</barlineSpan>
			<clef staff="2">F15ma</clef>
			<aPitchRange>48-113</aPitchRange>
			<pPitchRange>48-113</pPitchRange>
			<Channel>
				<program value="8"/>
			</Channel>
		</Instrument>

or most probably

		<Instrument id="celesta">
			<longName>Celesta</longName>
			<shortName>Cel.</shortName>
			<description>Celesta</description>
			<staves>2</staves>
			<clef>G</clef>
			<bracket>1</bracket>
			<bracketSpan>2</bracketSpan>
			<barlineSpan>2</barlineSpan>
			<clef staff="2">F</clef>
			<aPitchRange>48-113</aPitchRange>
			<pPitchRange>48-113</pPitchRange>
			<transposeDiatonic>8</transposeDiatonic>
			<transposeChromatic>12</transposeChromatic>
			<Channel>
				<program value="8"/>
			</Channel>
		</Instrument>

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