Workaround for a special case of cross staff beaming?
Does anyone have an idea for a workaround to create a cross staff beaming like this (I don't believe;)?:
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Or maybe it is (just found): https://musescore.org/en/node/8717
Interesting! In theory we do support cross-staff notation across more than just two staves, but it doesn't seem to actually work to to anything other than the adjacent staff. So with three staves you could enter them on the middle one and move some up and others down. But that seems to be it. I'm pretty sure internally the code at least partially can handle larger displacements than that, but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually accomplish the move, and I very much doubt the layout would really work out of the box since it hasn't been tested. Probably wouldn't be too hard to implement based on the current framework, though.
Of course the question of splitting a single chord between staves is indeed another matter entirely, also in theory not terribly difficult to implement, but then again, the workaround isn't that bad either.
In reply to Interesting! In theory we… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc! At time I'm playing around with the idea to split the chord, see attached a first attempt how it could work more or less. If you activate "show invisible" you'll see, it's very messy. But the goal of the transcription is to get a good looking printed score.
Maybe I find time to check the same with a cross staff notation with the procedure as you mentioned (using the middle staff), to see if it's less messed up.
As known therefore I've to add the staves to a single instrument. But then I've to hide (or similar) the instrument name and - first of all - I'm not sure if it will work with same pitches in different staffs on the same beat.
Maybe something to the background: It's a score for choir and solo voice. The author of this piece is a professional percussionist and composer. A Choir director asked me, if I could transcribe it for a printed score.
I don't know if it's a common way in modern composing/music notation, I never saw it before. An advantage I see in this way of notation, the singer gets a better feeling for the rhythm.
In reply to Thanks Marc! At time I'm… by kuwitt
I have been observing this conversation. This is a handwritten score that now makes a lot more sense now that I know it was written by a percussionist. As a non-percussionist, I would never attempt to write a score this way. There should no doubt be a conductor's score so he can help the singers keep their parts separate (rather than taking up one another's rhythm) as I have seen happen in symphonic pieces. Creating parts in your try would expose the biggest problems to overcome. It would be an interesting project non-the-less.