12/8
I am using one of the public domain scores here on Musescore but one of the parts is not downloadable. I thought to just copy and paste it using Musescore but whenever I paste a bar onto the new music, it is automatically changed to 4/4 although I changed the time signature and thought I changed all the settings. Is there somethin I am not knowing to change?
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How do you copy/paste if you can't download the score to copy from?
Here on Musescore is misleading, I guess you mean there from musescore.com (as opposed to this site here, musescore.org)
In reply to How do you copy/paste if you… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have downloaded all the parts from Musescore.com, though one part (flute) downloads as the piano part. I have the score downloaded but when trying to make a new part from scratch, I am unable to copy and paste from the score to the new file in the correct meter (12/8) as the default it 4/4.
In reply to I have downloaded all the… by Brittney_Bush
Can you share those scores?
In reply to Can you share those scores? by Jojo-Schmitz
Are you able to tell what I am trying to do by these pictures?
In reply to Are you able to tell what I… by Brittney_Bush
No
In reply to No by Jojo-Schmitz
Except that little plus sign in the 1st measure of the short score, indicating an irregular measure duration
In reply to Are you able to tell what I… by Brittney_Bush
As mentioned, it’s really hard to tell much from a picture, we really need the score in order to help. But what I can tell is, something is very wrong with the time signature. I’m guessing it isn’t 12/8 at all but just 4/4 doctored to “look like” 12/8.
And as mentioned, the built in parts facility means what you are trying to do here probably isn’t necessary at all.
Copy and paste copies literally - if you had an eighth note in the original, it remains an eighth note, etc. If the time signature in the source and destination are the same, it should look the same. if the time signature in the destination differs from the source, you'll still have eighth notes remaining eighth notes, but now there will be more or fewer of them in each bar. If you were wanting MsueScore to 8change* the durations for you, it can do that in a limited way, using Paste Half/Double Duration in the Edit menu, but it doesn't tend to work for converting 4/4 to 12/8 or vice versa because that would require converting back and forth between regular notes and triplets.
As mentioned, if you continue to have trouble, please attach the scores in question, and describe in more detail what exactly you are trying to do - which notes you are trying to copy, where you are trying to copy them to, how you want them changed in the copy.
In reply to Copy and paste copies… by Marc Sabatella
screenshots are posted in the other comment thread, thank you
In reply to screenshots are posted in… by Brittney_Bush
We asked for scores, not screenshots
MuseScore can automatically generate parts for you. See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/parts#setup-all-parts
No need to copy and paste a part onto "new music".