Old fashioned CLEFS before the first Bracket of a score with modern CLEFS
Hi there!
I'm writing a piece for educational use on MuseScore 3 and i want to use old-fashioned clefs (C) BEFORE modern clefs.
The score must ''look'' and ''sound'' at G clef, but i want to add the ''renaissence clefs'' at the beginning BEFORE the first Bracket.
As example I made a picture, but it took me so much time to fix it, by removing barlines/pauses/original clefs/time signatures, adding old clefs as a ''stave text" (using F2 and make them big or small), writting the voice names, using the ''image capture tool'' and matching the image with the score with zooming at 1600%..!! It requires great detail and a lot of ''tricks'' and in the end it is just a png. picture in a score...
Is there a way to make this happen with original commands ''from the inside'' of MuseScore??
Thanks!
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Comments
Perhaps the following is a slightly less cumbersome workaround.
It uses the symbols section from the master palette and starts by dragging a 5-line wide staff symbol onto the first measure for each staff; then repositioned all of them in one go using the X- and Y- offsets in the Inspector for them.
Then I've attached the clef symbols to those wide staff symbols; so you can position them relative to it. As I don't find scaled courtesy clefs, I've used the real-sized ones. Since they are somewhat bigger I found the wide staff line symbols to not be wide enough; so I've added additional normal width 5 staff symbols to each of them and positioned it just before them using the inspector.
Now you'll notice those symbols overlapping the instrument names.
Open Format → Style → Text Styles → Instrument Names (long) and look for which X-offset you need to position them in front of the symbols again. The downside is that they are now also moved into the page margin.
To remedy that, add a horizontal frame to the start of the score with the same width as the X-offset you required for the long instrument names. Then go back into the instrument names style and readjust the X-offset as required (likely half it for centered names as in your example).
In reply to Perhaps the following is a… by jeetee
Jeetee, nice one. One additional tip.
If You need resizeable symbols, You can add them as Staff text.
In reply to Jeetee, nice one. One… by sammik
I was somehow under the impressing that layout changes would affect the staff text solution more; but this looks to work out quite decently, so not sure why I thought that.
Thank you for reminding me of this approach!
In reply to Perhaps the following is a… by jeetee
Ok in this way is much easier, but there is a small difference in line thickness between the "wide staff symbols" added at the beginning, and the original stave lines of the score. Of course this is a small detail and not so important when printing.
Thank you so much!!