Transpose whole piece automaticaly
Hello. I wrote a whole piece in concert piece but now remembered that the tenor sax is in b flat. so is it possible to automticaly transpose the whole piece a tone down?
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It's not exactly clear what your situation is. Here are a couple of possibilities:
You have a score that has a stave for a concert pitch instrument and you have written the notes for a sax part on that stave at the pitch you want them to sound. In this case, right click the score and change the instrument to tenor sax. MuseScore will take care of the transposition for you, so what was a written C will become a written D (provided you don't have the Concert Pitch button pressed).
You have a score for a group of instruments including a tenor sax and you have written the tenor sax part in a convenient key but at concert pitch and you want to keep it written that way but sounding a tone lower. If the part you have written is using tenor sax as the instrument, that part will already sound a tone lower than written. Therefore you want to transpose the other instruments down a tone to match it. In this case you would select the full duration of the score for all instruments except the tenor sax, individually or in groups, and use Tools>Transpose and select "by interval, down a major second", and having "transpose key signatures" ticked. This will make all the Cs in the original Bbs etc. in the transposed instrument staves and a 3 sharp key signature (say) will become a 1 sharp key signature etc.
Or possibly your situation is neither of these. If so, please explain and attach your score so that we can help further.
In reply to It's not exactly clear what… by SteveBlower
Hello, my case is the first one, what doyou mean by right click the score?
In reply to Hello, my case is the first… by davil
Put your mouse cursor on a blank part of the stave and click the right mouse button (I believe the MAC equivalent is Control+Click). This should bring up the following menu.
You then click on "Stave/Part properties" as highlihted. This will open the following dialogue with a "Change instrument" button.
Click that and you will get the list of instruments to select from (in your case Tenor Sax).
In reply to Put your mouse cursor on a… by SteveBlower
When I right click the only options I get are Style, Page Settings and Load style...
In reply to When I right click the only… by davil
You are clicking in a blank part of your score. First locate the stave for the instrument, then right-click on that stave.
In reply to You are clicking in a blank… by DanielR
I'm sorry, this is my first project in musecore, so I am a total beginner. I clicked the staff option, and changed the instrument to T.sax but I have no OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, and I can't scroll up or down, see screenshot.
In reply to I'm sorry, this is my first… by davil
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In reply to I'm sorry, this is my first… by davil
It seems like the buttons are hiding off the bottom of your screen. This is probably a problem with the scaling of you display. I have never had to mess with such things and can't offer much advice, but here is a thread where someone had the opposite problem, the dialogues were too small, and the advice there may well be appropriate to fix the "too big" problem. https://musescore.org/en/node/289402. Someone else with more experience/knowledge of the problem may be reading this and may be able to offer more help.
In the mean time, can you drag the dialogue upwards to unhide the buttons?
Alternatively, if you hit Return while the dialogue is open it should act as if you pressed the OK button.
In reply to It seems like the buttons… by SteveBlower
Where is there a return button?
In reply to It seems like the buttons… by SteveBlower
OK, I now found out that in windows it's the enter button. I was able to transpose to the tenor, but when I play the piece it seems to play it an octave higher than writen.
In reply to OK, I now found out that in… by davil
Probably you used the wrong clef, or wrote it an octave higher than you were thinking you did. Hard to say, we would need you to attach the actual score, snot just screenshots, in order for us to understand and assist better.