Toggling concert pitch could toggle cleff

• Apr 12, 2014 - 07:36

Say I write for baritone horn/euphonium and piano. I'd like to write the horn part in concert pitch and bass cleff while composing/arranging. But for printing I'd use transposing and treble cleff (maybe with the little 8). It could be nice if you could pre-set which cleff you want to use for concert pitch and for transposing pitch. The natural place for it would be in the dialog that appears when you right click at a stave and choose stave properties, at the lower part where you set the transposing things.

There are a lot of instruments, where the bass cleff is handy, when you write the score and you're still working on the arranging. Tenor sax, baritone sax, 3rd and 4th french horns. It could even work in the other direction. If you don't read the bass cleff very well, you might want to write for trombones using treble cleff (with the tiny 8) while you're arranging in concert pitch. Then toggling the pitch thing, you'd get the trombones in bass cleff.


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