Anomaly when synchronizing information from Parts to Score.
When I work on a part and I introduce a new key, it is not passed on to the score while the reverse (score -> parts) works perfectly.
Some people will object that this way of working is not appropriate. However, in my workflow, which consists in entering songs from a fakebook writed in concert key in order to transpose them to be played by transposing instruments, it can be justified and it allows me to limit manipulations. Here is how I proceed.
I have a writed score in concert pitch. In MS, I have created a template with all the appropriate styles, including a score (4 empty staff) and 4 parts (empty) respectively for instruments in Bb, Eb, C and C (bass clef). When creating a new score, after having entered the variable elements (title, starting key, number of bars, etc.), I activate the C part on Musescore (flute, in this case) and I directly reproduce my fakebook sheet music (respecting the division into lines of n bars, notes, chords, lyrics). Then, once I have checked my input, I copy and paste it into the other parts. The score is built up as I go along and everything goes well in most cases.... except when one (or more) key changes have been entered in the part. These changes are not reflected in the score, nor in the other parts (after copy). For example, see score of Body and soul (1). Obviously, when I proceed in a conventional way score => parts, everything is fine (example Body and Soul (2).
This way of working may seem marginal, I agree. But beyond the criticisms and methodological considerations, it would seem logical to me that ALL informations/modifications made in a part should be synchronized in the score (including, therefore, the tonality changes). The immediate workaround is to enter the key changes in the score; however, this requires to identify the right places by a rather tedious manual counting, whereas my current way of proceeding is much more visual.
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Works for me, but only partly: changing a key signature in a part/excerpt, changes the key signature in the main score too, but only for that part/instrument, so in the main score it ends up as a local key signature. But at least it is then quite easy to spot the place in the main score to be able to change the other parts too.
Can't find this being mentioned in the issue tracker though
In reply to Works for me, but only… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for your reply. I have investigated the subject further and carried out some tests by carefully reading the online manual.
In fact, I hadn't understood the subtlety of manipulation that I discovered while testing. I think I was selecting the pause of the bar where the tonality change occurred and clicking on (or dragging) the key signature I wanted, which I think created a 'local' key signature that was not reflected in the whole score. When I either select the whole bar, or the key signature that appears at the beginning of the staff when the case arises, and I click on the key, the change is reflected in all the staves of the score (becomes an initial key).
This behaviour is quite logical, but it is still necessary to have 'caught' the subtlety concerning the element to be selected.
Sorry to have panicked the web because of a misinterpretation of the manual instructions.