Repeats and Jumps menu in MuseScore 3.6
I asked this question a couple of days ago, and—having had no response whatever to the query—I'm trying again today. Though I have been able to generate a repeat of a whole, short, strophic piece of music (Cuckfield Tune, attached) I am finding it impossible (using the same sequence of bar properties, etc.) to persuade a terminal section of a second piece of music to repeat. The piece in question (which is attached as Hymn for Easter Day) ends with a Hallelujah chorus, which I have marked to repeat, yet will not repeat under any circumstances. I would also like to have the first section of the piece playback n number of times, using the same (invisible) appended bar which I have used in the case of Cuckfield Tune, but I cannot seem to make that happen, either. I particularly like MuseScore and the combination of the new text and notation fonts, and want to use it for playback purposes with the choir I direct, but I do need the functions that I have already identified and used (in Cuckfield Tune, for example) to be replicable in other pieces, and it seems they are not. What I'm trying to do is perfectly do-able in Sibelius, for instance; what am I doing incorrectly, please?
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Cuckfield Tune .mscz | 23.32 KB |
| Hymn for Easter Day J Hill.mscz | 24.39 KB |
Comments
Well, this is your first and only post so far...
In reply to Well, this is your first and… by Jojo-Schmitz
Then the fault must have been mine; I confess to having not known at which point of the process to hit 'upload' ; it isn't made clear.
There no repeats at all in "Cuckfield Tune .mscz", gthere is one in "Hymn for Easter Day J Hill.mscz" though, and it does seem to work.
Make sure to have the Play Repeats buton on the toolbar active (icon looks like a ":|")
In reply to There no repeats at all in … by Jojo-Schmitz
I didn't realise that the toolbar repeat toggle was required to make the repeats in the score work, which they now do. Thank you for your help.
Ah I see, hidden measure with a repeats barline, tricky... but same issue I guess, the Play Repeats button?
You can't do that trick with the other score though, as repeats don't nest, you can't have a repeat within a repeat. You could get it to repeat once, via a D.C. (and its Play Repeats, so it repeats that chorsu on the 2nd round)
In reply to Ah I see, hiiden measure… by Jojo-Schmitz
It did seem clear (after much experimentation) that a nested repeat wasn't going to happen. I did use a section end break to see if that would be a distinctive enough separation of the elements involved, but that didn't work, either. I'm using these pieces in Zoom sessions for live playback, so it would have been good to be able to play all the verses, and then hear the (repeated, of course) Hallelujah chorus just the once. Ah well. Thank you for looking into this and for responding so quickly.