Linked staves
I was wondering what could be done with that :
* make an "ossia part" when needed (like a variation-simplification of what is played / or an explanation of what to play : like who to do rythmically this ornament)
* be able to have to instruments in the same part when parts are extracted : like for example the 4 voices of a Choir ; or the two flute in the same part (but with both staves and one system of course !) of an orchestral score ?
* be able to have instrumented grouped by categories (woodwinds, brass, percussion) with the crotchet at the beggining of the mesure ?
* something else ?
Thank you !
Comments
Linked *staves* and linked *parts* are two somewhat different but actually extremely related things.
The main purpose of linked *staves* - two staves for the same instrument in the same score - is for guitar music. You can have a standard and tablature staff for the same music, and changing notes on one staff automatically changes the other. The linked staff is always kept in sync with the original. So it would be useless for ossia - you need the second staff to have *different* content.
Linked *parts* are so you can have score and parts separately, but changes to the score affect the part and vice versa.
You can already have multiple instruments in the same part when exacted - just click the appropriate checkboxes in the File / Parts dialog. That is, select the part at left, then select the instruments you want included at right. By default, it's one instrument per part, but you are free to add more.
That facility can indeed be used to generate views of a score with only woodwinds or only brass etc. It's a neat idea, and should work. I've thought of it before but never really tried it.
In reply to Linked *staves* and linked by Marc Sabatella
Oh thank you for that explanation....
for multiple instrument in the same part it is as for Musescore 1.3 .... ;)
it arrive sometimes to be able to follow the first soloist (when you play second) and you have less to play, and when you play it is too rythmically differnt from the first (or that the second soloist should play for a little higher than the first, and that wouldn't be readable...)
But generrally I saw just two (sometimes even only when necessary) staves for two soloist (or two parts like two different 1st violin parts)