How to unlink staves to create systems of 3 staves each.
This is for a method book, The Ensemble Method for Violin by Oscar Lehrer (imslp.org). Instrument has 3 possible voices to play and is meant to be played together. I can put the staves down on the "create a new score" option with as many staves as I want but they are all linked. I want to know how to unlink the staves so that I can have systems of 3 each connected with a bracket. I am arranging this method to include viola and cello as well.
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What do you mean by but they are all linked?
You can have one violin staff with 3 voices, one violin part with 3 staves or 3 violin staves/parts.
You can also add linked staves, but this doesn't make any sense for violins, much more so for guitars, with a normal and a tab staff.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/create-new-score#instruments-and-voic…
If you have more than one staff, you can connect them with a bracket from the brackets palette.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/brackets
You wrote:
...how to unlink the staves so that I can have systems of 3 each connected with a bracket.
I also wonder what you mean by ...they are all linked. ?
If you use three staves for a single violin and mute that violin in the mixer, nothing plays. So, in that way you can consider them 'linked'.
![Vio;in_3staff.png]( "Vio;in_3staff.png")
If you want control over each staff, select three violins, not one.
![Vio;in_Bracket.png]( "Vio;in_Bracket.png")
Also...
Brackets can be found in the Brackets palette. Select the 'Advanced' workspace instead of 'Basic'.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/palettes-and-workspaces#workspaces
Regards.