How to change piano piece to string quartet?
How I would go about changing a short piece I arranged for piano into a string quartet piece. It's okay if I gotta manually change some notes and stuff, but I'm hoping there's a button that just does most of it automatically.
Currently there's only 2 voices being used in it, so I'm assuming I'd probably have to go in and set everything up for 4 separate voices first which I can do because the thing was written for string quartet in mind anyways.
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See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tools#explode
i could see if i can find one but for now,no.
Do you mean two voices: one in the left and the other in the right hand? Or two in the left and two in the right?
Assuming the latter, the Explode option should give you a beginning. Your real problem comes with the fact that ranges of the left and right hand of the piano don't particularly match up with the ranges of the four instruments in a string quartet. You're going to be doing a fair amount of changes.
One possibility to consider: Take the upper voice from the left hand, move it up an octave, and give it to the second violin. And take the lower voice from the right hand and give it to the viola.
Good luck! I'm afraid you're going to need it!!! :-)