Pitched and unpitched percussion
Is it possible to mix pitched and unpitched percussion notation on a single stave, rather than on several, as in a score?
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Is it possible to mix pitched and unpitched percussion notation on a single stave, rather than on several, as in a score?
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No!
Why would you want to?
In reply to No! Why would you want to? by ChurchOrganist
Cue.
In reply to Cue. by andmarg@hotmai…
This will be doable in version 3.0 when it comes out.
In reply to This will be doable in… by mike320
Excellent. Thank you mike320. This will be helpful when re-writing percussion scores to suit a lone percussionist, which was partly what I had in mind. As far as cues go, I wondered whether it will be possible to render them in a somewhat smaller font, as they usually are. (As you may have guessed, I am only now getting around to exploring MuseScore!)
In reply to Excellent. Thank you… by andmarg@hotmai…
The inspector (press F10 to toggle it) has setting to make the notes smaller and to make them not play as needed. It is usual to put whole rests in measures with cue note, this requires voices.
It is preferable that you start new threads if you change subjects as you did, but feel free to ask for any help you need.
In reply to The inspector (press F10 to… by mike320
Inspector is F8, not F10...
In reply to Inspector is F8, not F10... by Louis Cloete
...ooops...
In reply to Excellent. Thank you… by andmarg@hotmai…
One other thing I just thought of, the MDL extension has rails to make writing a pitched and unpitched instrument for one musician easier. You may want to check out info on MDL here to see if it helps.
In reply to One other thing I just… by mike320
Thanks again, mike320. Very helpful and more than enough to be thinking about for now.
In reply to This will be doable in… by mike320
A clarification: it might be directly possible in 3.0. RIght now there is a "staff type change" element that allows you to change "some" properties part way through a score, but unless I'm missing something, changing from pitched to unpitched isn't one of the things you can do. I definitely hope to see it added, along with hopefully a few other staff properties that are not included in the staff type change element yet.
In reply to A clarification: it might be… by Marc Sabatella
https://musescore.org/en/node/22930#comment-725691 was posted in response to a request that included an example of going from an unpitched instrument to a pitched instrument. Apparently this is something that will either need to be dropped or fixed for the final 3.0 release.
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by mike320
Although the example did mention unpitched, it didn't really depend on that - it was more about changing number of staff lines (as per the title, "Different number of lines..."). A change in the number of staff lines is something you can now do through the staff type change element. So, from five line to one line etc. - but it won't change from pitched to unpitched or vice versa.
Someone ( EDIT, OK, me - #278016: Add pitched/unpitched (and more staff properties) to Staff Type Change ) should post a specific feature request for this or my guess is it won't happen. I'd personally like to see everything from staff properties here, seems weird to have like 70% of it but not the rest, especially considering some of the one that are present are likely to be used less several that are not.
In reply to A clarification: it might be… by Marc Sabatella
Good news. I think we should add it. There is plenty out there since L'Histoire du Soldat with one percussionist... or several percussionists each with their own ensemble. As per a previous discussion, such an addition would simplify both a study score as well as the conductor's score.
In reply to Cue. by andmarg@hotmai…
Something else that is usually mentioned in this context but I didn't see here: you can generally get the desired effect already by adding separate staves then "Hide empty staves". You can even get it to switch mid-system with a zero-width horizontal frame, although that's more a bug than a feature, and I think it's fixed in 3.0, so hopefully the ability to do a true mid-score staff type change from pitched to unpitched gets implemented.