How would one display a tempo change only in active parts?
Greetings all!
I have a 12 part score where only 8 players are active where I've written a rit. On the 4 resting parts, their multi-measure rest is broken to display said rit. As there is no musical reason for the resting players to know about it (there's a hold in the next bar which they do have notated) I'd like the multi-measure rest to remain unbroken where the rit is notated.
As MuseScore4 seems to treat a tempo change (like a rit or accel) the same as a new tempo (say Allegro), of course the program's default behavior is to break a multi-measure rest at that point. Therefore, is there a way to create a new palette called "tempo changes" which whose members would playback, appear on the top staves of the score and any active parts, but not appear in any resting parts?
I've tried a couple of workarounds - like highlighting the rit in a resting part and pressing V to hide it, but the measures don't recombine. (programmers - perhaps they should in the next update? That'd be one solution, anyway...)
Also, I realize I could enter the rit as staff text only on the active parts, but that makes the score look cluttered. I'd really like to avoid two files - one for the conductor's score and one for the parts - for ease of future editing if required.
Any ideas? I'm hoping there's just a button somewhere I haven't found yet to make this happen - if it's user error, I'm glad to be corrected.
Thanks in advance!
V/R
K
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I suspect that there may workarounds. And I realize you want things to look a certain way. I get it. But is it really worth it. Players aren't going to be confused.
In reply to I suspect that there may… by bobjp
I feel clarity is always worth it! Even though you're correct that there wouldn't be confusion in this case, it just looks clunky.
It'd be wonderful if MuseScore had a "force multi-measure rest" menu item - for example, I've noticed that a clef change in one part will break a multi-measure rest in a different part which has nothing in the affected measures. I think this occurs for a similar reason to what I stated above. I just hate seeing my percussion parts with two multi-measure rests (a 5 and a 3) where it just needs one (with an 8).
Alternately, the Finale approach of creating a staff group would work perfectly (set to top staff score & affected parts), but probably would require a lot more effort to implement. However, it seems as though something similar is coming in the next update, if I read the feature notes correctly, so this issue may end up resolving itself before too much longer.
Thanks for your response, though our opinions differ on this particular issue. Actually, thanks again for the help you've given me on a couple of other threads recently!
In reply to I feel clarity is always… by K Frank Soper
Actually, I agree with you. It's just that for now things work a certain way. I just want to get things done. I compose for playback. I can't imagine anyone wanting to actually play my music. I do know proper notation. I just don't always need it.