Instrument addition in the wrong key?
I downloaded a score from musescore.com: https://musescore.com/user/88481161/scores/21432790
I then want to add a tenor sax part. When I do this, the Tenor is in the key of G while the rest of the band is in the key of A (both transposed and concert pitch instruments are being shown with the same 3 sharps). Is there some global setting in musescore that turns off transcription? There is also an Alto Sax in the part to begin with and it is in the key of C. However, playing the score, the instruments are in tune. Is the Alto part annotated to make up for the wrong key?
Forgive my newbie-ish musical question here. As a sax player, I am used to transcription and expect musescore to account for this while writing parts.
Thank you.
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The score is set to sounding notation AKA concert pitch, so adding another instrument, transposing or not, will show in the same keysig, 3 sharps, A-Major
Adding Tenor sax and then disabling sounding pitch shows Alto Sax with 6 sharps (F#-Major) and Tenor Sax with 4 sharps (E-Major), the rest stays on 3 sharps. There's no instrument in C-Major
In reply to The score is set to sounding… by Jojo-Schmitz
Perfect. Thank you. I figured it was something simple like this. Didn't even notice that button sitting there at the bottom of the score. I wish I were better at sight transposing but, at the moment, I rely on Musescore to be my crutch, one click and it is as I would expect.
You can find info about transposition at https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/transposition. There's a whole subsection about transposing instruments and how they work in MuseScore Studio.