Transposing
Please look at the attached score. there is a key change from bar 28 to67. The scale is in F#minor.
Look at bar 28. the first note should be F#. I understand Gb is the same as F#, but why is not showing F#. Similarly in bar 29 the Db should actually be C#. How do I get to change these across the score from bar 28 to 67?. I tried transposing diatonically, but it was not coming correctly.
What I want is, since the scale is in F#minor, I need the C# F# and G# to appear as C,F,G and not as Db, Gb,Ab.
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Select the region that is troubling you and press down-arrow, up-arrow. Experiment with the reverse (up then down) as one will give you E#s etc. and the other will tend to give you F-naturals.
Or select the region and choose Notes ->Respell Pitches.
In reply to Select the region that is by underquark
Thank you. It worked. What I did was, I selected bars 28 to 67 and used down arrow, which brought the scale down by a semitone, then again, I selected the same bars and used up arrow to move it up by a semitone. Got it. Thank you once again.
In reply to Select the region that is by underquark
This seems to be a good opportunity to mention that Musescore is smartly programmed to respond reasonably to the up and down arrow keys.
If you are in C Major (or rather your key signature is C Major) you can't produce an e sharp (or b sharp) with the arrow keys, you get an f (or c); you have to add the sharp sign from the menu to get e sharp. But if you change the key signature to 3 sharps pressing the up arrow on e will give you e sharp. Analogously you can get c flats and f flats with the down arrow with an E flat key signature, but not with a C signature.
This becomes practically important in romantic pieces where the key at any moment may be far from the key signature which is generally set on the main key of the piece.
You ask why the Gb is not showing as F# - the answer depends entirely on how you entered that note. If you entered the note as Gb (perhaps before entering the key change), then it stays the way you entered it until you tell MuseScore to make the change. It is best to enter the key signatures *before* entering the notes. Then you would simply have entered the F# directly.
In reply to You ask why the Gb is not by Marc Sabatella
The original score was written in Db Major/ Bb minor, where the first note in bar 28 was a Bb. When I transposed this to A Major/F#minor the first note became Gb. I only selected the key change and let Musescore do the transposing.
In reply to The original score was by johnbhasme0315
How did you select the key change? If you simply dragged a new key signature in from the palette, that doesn't transpose at all - it just changes the key while leaves all notes exactly as they were. If you want to change keys and transpose at once, you need to use Notes / Transpose and select the new key in that dialog. If you had done this, it would have respelled the notes while it transposed.
In reply to How did you select the key by Marc Sabatella
I went to Notes/Transpose and selected the new key.
In reply to I went to Notes/Transpose and by johnbhasme0315
Well, it works when I tried it. If you can figure out how to reproduce this behavior (too late for this score whatever went wrong already happened), we can look into it and if there is a bug, we can fix it. But as it is, I can only guess that somehow you used the wrong options in that dialog.