Changing choral voices from treble to bass clef and vice versa
I have transcribed an arrangement of Mood Indigo for a male voice choir. The musical director has asked me to do a mixed voice version. He tells me that all I need to do is give the Bass 1 to the Alto line and vice versa in the suitable clef. Is there a way of doing this within Musescore without having to manually change each note?
Yours, Olive Brookes
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You don't have an existing alto part so I'm not sure how you expect to change the alto to bass, but I changed the first bass part to an alto part in about 30 seconds.
Right click the staff and choose staff/part properties
Click "Change instruments"
In the vocals select alto
Drag the treble clef from the palette to the alto voice part
select the first measure and press ctrl+shift+end to select the entire part
press ctrl+up arrow to change all notes up an octave
The first bass is now the alto part.
In reply to You don't have an existing… by mike320
To me it sounded OK just changing the names. But the MD didn’t seem to think so. 😏 Thanks I’ll try your suggestion. Do you think then that the Bass to Alto line just a clef change and moving down an octave?
In reply to To me it sounded OK just… by oddy.brookes@g…
Changing the pitches put the notes where altos can actually sing then notes. Altos can't sing bass notes. If you mean lowering an alto part down and octave and changing to the bass clef will allow basses to sing it, that should work. You do need to take a look to make sure all notes are singable by the Bass. When I changed the Bass to Alto, I looked at it quickly it looked like all the notes would be able to be sung by an alto.
In reply to Changing the pitches put the… by mike320
Thank you for your help. I'm not going to put this to the test until I return from 2 weeks holiday. You have saved me from taking the score with me and trying to do it manually. I'll just chill ready for the fray when I return. 👍