Baritone Sax Clefs

• Sep 19, 2018 - 16:38

Am writing a score which shows concert pitch (instruments sound as written except for the usual octave transpositions) in the master score, and transposed parts.

From my professional teachers and standard orchestration handbooks, the baritone saxophone sounds an octave and a major 6th lower than written, and uses a treble clef in its part.

For the reasons above, I would like for my masterscore (which the conductor uses), to show the baritone saxophone part in bass clef, but for the baritone saxophone's transposed part to show treble clef.

Transposed by MuseScore, oddly, my baritone saxophone part shows a bass clef with lots of extremely high notes. I can change the part to treble clef to show notes properly, but when I do this, the clef in the masterscore is also changed.

How can I show a correct clef in the part, without affecting the masterscore's clef?

Many thanks in advance.


Comments

You must be trying to override the default values MuseScore uses for the Bari Sax transposition. What you want is what MuseScore does by default.

In reply to by Film Composer

If you attache a score with the problem we'll have all of the answers we need, like

What version of MuseScore?
Where did the file come from?
What did you do to change the default behavior?

We can look at a score with these problems and have the answers. If you don't want to attach an entire score, then select a few measures that show the problem and use Save Selection.

In reply to by Film Composer

While we wait to see your score, try this and see if your experience differs from mine:

1) File / New
2) On the template screen, click "Choose Instruments"
3) Select Baritone Saxophone
4) Finish

Now you have a score for baritone saxophone, key of C concert. By default MuseScore will display this transposed (Concert Pitch button off), so you'll see key of A. Go ahead and enter an A - the one below the staff, you know you wanna :-)

Now press Concert Pitch button. You should see clef turn to bass, key signature go away, and the A below the treble staff is now the C below the bass staff - all 100% correct.

As mentioned, this is already the default when creating a new score. But maybe you are dealing with a MusicXML import? Or you originally created the staff for another instrument then changed it? If so, no problem, just change the clef in concert pitch mode, transposed mode is unaffected.

if you continue to have trouble, please attach your score so we can understand and assist better.

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