notehead color change when added text
Hi, I´m new to Musescore and I know that noteheads becomes gold or red if the note is going outside of the voice's range.
What happened is that I was adding dynamics to my score and I needed to add poco cresc. indication. As it isn't available in the Lines menu I tried with simple text, as I don't need to be playable, just need to transcribe the score.
The problem is that when I added the text most of my notes in ATB (it's a choral score) became red, even when they are inside the "allowed" range, as you can see in the screenshot.
the poco cresc. indication (in blue for T) is just formatted text. What I did is just write and format for S and then copy/paste for ATB.
What is happening here? Thanks in advance for your answers
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Could you attach here your score?
Instead of adding it as plain text, it is better to add the regular "cresc" line and then edit the text to read how you like. Then it will behave correctly in terms of layout, playback, export to MusicXML, and everything else.
However, there is no way that adding plain text would affect the color of notes in your score. I'm guessing there is a (possibly hidden) 8va or 8vb line in your score that is transposing these. Like maybe you first tried adding the crsc as an 8vb and editing the text but couldn't figure it out so you hid it?
As mentioned, attaching the actual score rather than just a picture allows us to do better than guess.
In reply to Instead of adding it as… by Marc Sabatella
@Álvaro, or maybe you've copied Lyrics (and notes) from one clef to another?
Try using Edit / Tools-> Copylyrics to clipboard
Here it is, is a transcription I'm working on just for learning purposes
In reply to Here it is, is a… by Álvaro Esteban…
You used the "Instrument change" text here.
For example: Changes the bass instrument to Soprano.
It's being used incorrectly.
Delete them and use staff text, system text, tempo and lines wherever necessary.
In reply to Here it is, is a… by Álvaro Esteban…
Better for poco cres. and poco decresc. using the elements of the lines palette and changing via right cklick the text in properties (https://musescore.org/en/handbook-notation/lines). For a tempo i would suggest to use a staff- or systemtext (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/staff-and-system-text) or a tempo marking (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tempo#tempo-marking).
In reply to Here it is, is a… by Álvaro Esteban…
Yikes!
For a simple SATB score, have a look in the mixer and see how many parts are listed in your score!
You used "Instrument change" instead of staff/system text (or modified the text of lines). Each time you add an Instrument change, the Mixer also adds another one. That's why you have over 10 Sopranos, 9 Altos, etc.
Open this attachment (where I have deleted all the Instrument changes) and look in the Mixer:
And so it goes_2.mscz
It correctly shows one each, SATB. I have also entered a poco cresc. by modifying the crescendo line's properties to add the word 'poco'. See measure 16/17. The others you can enter the same way, (or use some text other than 'Instrument change').
Regards.