Transpose whole piece automaticaly

• Feb 5, 2021 - 11:59

Hello. I wrote a whole piece in concert piece but now remembered that the tenor sax is in b flat. so is it possible to automticaly transpose the whole piece a tone down?


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It's not exactly clear what your situation is. Here are a couple of possibilities:

  1. You have a score that has a stave for a concert pitch instrument and you have written the notes for a sax part on that stave at the pitch you want them to sound. In this case, right click the score and change the instrument to tenor sax. MuseScore will take care of the transposition for you, so what was a written C will become a written D (provided you don't have the Concert Pitch button pressed).

  2. You have a score for a group of instruments including a tenor sax and you have written the tenor sax part in a convenient key but at concert pitch and you want to keep it written that way but sounding a tone lower. If the part you have written is using tenor sax as the instrument, that part will already sound a tone lower than written. Therefore you want to transpose the other instruments down a tone to match it. In this case you would select the full duration of the score for all instruments except the tenor sax, individually or in groups, and use Tools>Transpose and select "by interval, down a major second", and having "transpose key signatures" ticked. This will make all the Cs in the original Bbs etc. in the transposed instrument staves and a 3 sharp key signature (say) will become a 1 sharp key signature etc.

Or possibly your situation is neither of these. If so, please explain and attach your score so that we can help further.

In reply to by davil

Put your mouse cursor on a blank part of the stave and click the right mouse button (I believe the MAC equivalent is Control+Click). This should bring up the following menu.

RightClick.jpg

You then click on "Stave/Part properties" as highlihted. This will open the following dialogue with a "Change instrument" button.

Stave-Part-Properies.jpg

Click that and you will get the list of instruments to select from (in your case Tenor Sax).

TenorSax.jpg

In reply to by davil

It seems like the buttons are hiding off the bottom of your screen. This is probably a problem with the scaling of you display. I have never had to mess with such things and can't offer much advice, but here is a thread where someone had the opposite problem, the dialogues were too small, and the advice there may well be appropriate to fix the "too big" problem. https://musescore.org/en/node/289402. Someone else with more experience/knowledge of the problem may be reading this and may be able to offer more help.

In the mean time, can you drag the dialogue upwards to unhide the buttons?

Alternatively, if you hit Return while the dialogue is open it should act as if you pressed the OK button.

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