Coloring of voice parts on Windows 11 with MuseScore 4.3.2.241630831
I am using the barbershop template. So I have Treble Clef with voice 1 = Tenor and voice 2 = Lead. And I have a Bass Clef with voice 1 = Bari and voice 2 = Bass.
I am selecting parts separately, and wanting to set different colors for each part. I'm leaving Tenor (Voice 1 Treble) the black color. I am wanting to set the Lead to Red, Bari to Green, and Bass to Blue. In the Properties section, I am setting the color to be the desired color for note, stem, and beam. However, what appears on my screen is color only for the note. When I print, the same thing. Stem and Beam stay black. Help please.
I am willing to send the mscz file to an individual, but there are copyright issues involved, so I have to be careful.
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I guess you are selecting the voices using right click - select similar, same voice. This creates a list selection where only the note heads are selected. if, instead, you use the selection filter (enable it from the view menu if it not already shown) you can select which voices to included/exclude from a range selection. Setting the colour of a range then affects the entire chords in that voice - i.e. note head(s), stems, beams.
The process would be
1. In the selection filter untick voice 1.
2. Make a range selection. click on the start note, shift click on the end note. You can see it is a range selection because it has a blue box round it.
3. Set the colour in the Properties panel.
4. In the selection filter tick voice 1 and untick voice 2
repeat steps 2 and 3
5. In the selection filter tick All. It is easy to forget this step which causes problems later when, for example, you try to copy and paste a section and find only one voice is copied.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/selecting-elements for more information on the different types of selection.