Cross-staff beaming plus.
Hallo,
I am trying to write a piece of piano music that uses cross-staff beaming, but I want all the notes on just one of the staves (the treble) to fall under the umbrella of an 8ve-up line. Is this possible?
Thanks.
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Yes... I think. Could you be a bit more specific? Do any of the examples in the attached match what you mean, for instance? If you could even write it, scan it and post the image it might help because I am wondering where the need for cross-staffing comes in when combined with ottava.
In reply to Yes... I think. Could you be by underquark
Ah... All right. I see how that can become confusing. Here is a screenshot of what I mean.
I simply want the upper part to be transposed by 1 8ve up.
Thanks again.
In reply to Ah... All right. I see how by ArthurFitzgerald
Are you asking if stanmdard notation supports this, or if there is a way to make MuseScore's internal playback do this? I suspect the answer to both questions is "no". Which is to say, even if you could get MuseScore's internal playback to do this, the people reading your score probably wouldn't understand it that way. You are probably better writing the bottom staff down an octave as well so the line can apply to both staves, or just use individual 8va's over each note.
In reply to Are you asking if stanmdard by Marc Sabatella
Correct clarification. Ideally I'd like both the internal playback and the human-readable score to agree with each other. Nevertheless, I think I'll give preference to the human-readable notation and add the 8va bar above the top staff.
Thanks!
If you want the chords two octaves apart (us that what you want?) then maybe best to not cross-staff beam but just have separate chords with the top staff 8va'd? I think it looks like it sounds (detached, skipping) but I get confused with the cross-staff beaming.
In reply to If you want the chords two by underquark
Indeed. That is also an alternative. Write it with all the pauses in between. I just figured it would look much better with the cross-staff notation. I'll consider that option too.
Thanks!