Tenor playing 1 octave higher
I have gone through the posts about octave-change but I still can't come up with a solution as to how I get:
- to keep the tenor sax notation as it was written
- how the Musescore sound will match the same pitch (that the player will hear when they read/play the notation)
The tenor sax is playing an octave higher than it should sound.
I have fiddled around with the 8ova clef, transposing up and down, concert pitch, instrument change 'play transposition as'...but end up having notes jump into another key, key signatures inserted, numerous ledger lines etc
Does a solution exist for this?
Comments
Tenor Sax does sound an octave and a major second lower than written, doesn't it?
At least that's what I gather from Staff properties when looking at a Tenor Sax staff.
In reply to Tenor Sax does sound an by Jojo-Schmitz
That doesn't help sorry...
...since it should sound lower than written pitch:
1. Select all the measures of the tenor staff.
2. Under menu item: Notes / Transpose... select 'Transpose by Interval', then 'Down', then in the drop down list select 'Perfect Octave', then 'OK'. (The sax part will display/play one octave lower now.)
3. From the Clefs palette, drag the treble clef 8vb to the first measure. The sax notes will display as they were originally, with the sound now an octave lower.
Hope this helps.
In reply to To keep the tenor sax notation as written... by Jm6stringer
Thanks for your reply, yes this works in MuseScore software but when I upload it online it still plays an octave out unfortunately...I saw a post somewhere where a fix has been made to the octave-change element for MuseScore 2.0 release so hopefully it will be soon...meanwhile I'll keep trying for a working solution :)
In reply to Thanks for your reply, yes by Donna2012
There is no bug in the anything having to do with octave transposition for tenor saxophone. As mentioned, tenor saxophones *do* sound an octave different than they are written. If you have the "Concert Pitch" button turned *on*, then notes are entered and displayed at their *sounding* pitch. If you have "Concert Pitch" button turned *off*, then notes are entered and displayed at their *written* pitch (and octave plus a whole step higher than they sound). You may have entered sounding pitch notes with Concert Pitch off; that would explain why playback is an octave higher than you thought it would be. But then, it would also have sounded wrong on your own computer before uploading.
As usual when asking for help with a score on the forums, it helps if you psot the score you are having problems with and describe *exactly* - step-by-step - what you are doingl what you expect to see happen, and what happens instead. Otherwise, we're really just guessing in trying to help.
Follow these steps.
1. Create two staves in C - one for Oboe (as a reference) and one for Tenor Sax
2. Click the Concert Pitch button - the transposing for the Sax is now turned off and there will be no key signature.
3. Enter some notes into the Oboe staff
4. Copy them into the Sax staff
5. They will both sound in the smae octave.
6. Click concert pitch again to turn transposing back on.
7. You will see the Sax part shift up a 9th and the D key sig will be reinserted
8. If desired select the Sax part and shift it down an octave with CTRL + down arrow.
The Sax part will now be in it's relative pitch to the Oboe.
HTH
Michael
In reply to Follow these steps. 1. Create by ChurchOrganist
Will give it a go thank you...