Show colored notes in parts
Hi,
I am the arranger of my woodwind plus cello combo. Recently, I experimented with coloring the melody in our arrangements. The players love that feature because they thus have a clear indication when the spotlight is on them in a piece.
Now, I'd like to apply that technique to my older arrangements, but, unfortunately, coloring the notes in the main score does not change the colors in the parts. So, I'd either have to color the melody in each part or recreate all parts (which means that I'd also have to recreate the formatting for each part).
Is there an easier way? Could that be done with a plugin?
Thanks and best regards,
René
Comments
It depends on which rules for coloring you want, but yes, you can run the colornotes plugin on parts
If you color the notes in the score with a plugin, run the same plugin against the part(s).
If you want a plugin that reads the colors from the score and sets them in the part(s) from that though, I believe you're out of luck
In reply to If you color the notes in… by Jojo-Schmitz
Out of luck in the sense that there is no such plugin or in the sense that it won't be possible to write one?
Since I do have some programming skills. So, I would try to write such a plugin myself as long as you as Musescore experts consider this doable.
In reply to Out of luck in the sense… by koolcraft
Both I think, surely the former
While experimenting with various options to transfer the colored notes to the parts, I observed that note coloring is already being transferred to parts that are created by [Single Part], but not to parts created by [All Parts].
Bug or feature?
In reply to While experimenting with… by koolcraft
That would be a bug. But one I can't reproduce.
In reply to That should be a bug. But… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ouch. I was too quick with my conclusion, sorry. Here is what I did:
Check the solo parts: No colors. (At that point, I did not check the part with both instruments, which indeed is also not colored.)
But now, the notes in the part containing both instruments are already colored! That's why I erroneously concluded that these parts behaved differently.
Fortunately, this also works the other way round: Copy the whole colored score to the part with all instruments and - voilà - the colors also show up in the solo parts.
So, this will probably be my workflow because that is way easier to do for a couple of scores than to write a plugin. ;-)
In reply to Ouch. I was too quick with… by koolcraft
Note colors are considered layout/markup and as such are not linked between a main score and the parts.
They are indeed copied over upon part creation.