Add voice part
I fear I may have asked for this before. My apologies.
I have a score with two staves showing four voices; the top voice is the tune the soloist sings; the other three are the accompaniment. I want to use what I have as the piano part and add the solo part back as a separate stave above. That is i want to embed what I have as the piano part in a piano plus voice version.
I'm sure this can be done via the add instrument option but I can't find that.
Can you help me?
Many thanks,
Keith
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See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/create-new-score#change-Instrument-…
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Jm6stringer
Very close! I see the voice part below the piano part. How do I get the voice part above the piano part?
In reply to Very close! I see the voice… by Keith Paton
Press I and in that dialog move that staff up
In reply to Very close! I see the voice… by Keith Paton
Use the arrow buttons in the instruments dialog.
In reply to Use the arrow buttons in the… by mike320
Thanks, everyone. Now another little difficulty. I have a piece with the voice part and I want to add two staves (treble and bass) in which to write the piano part. I select all and go to edit Instrument. Muse score thinks the one stave I gave it is a piano part; how come? I want Muse score to think of it as the vocal line; if I could do that then I could use Edit Instrument to add the piano part. As it is I am stuck.
In reply to Thanks, everyone. Now… by Keith Paton
The reason it thinks you have a piano is because you started with a treble clef as the instrument. Right click the staff and choose staff/parts Properties then click change instruments. You will see a box similar to the Instruments dialog where you can change the instrument to the proper voice part.
In reply to Thanks, everyone. Now… by Keith Paton
Will this work? Let E denote my existing voice score and F the final voice plus piano score. . Open E, select all, CTRL C to copy the voice part into the clipboard, open F, CTRL V to paste the voice onto the voice part. Will that work. Or is the copy and paste mechanism not powerful enough to do what I want?
In reply to Will this work? Let E… by Keith Paton
The answer is...it depends. If you have a time signature change you can pretty much forget it unless you want to pre-enter the new time signatures, because time signatures, key signatures, barlines (inlcuding repeats), jumps. and and other system items I haven't yet mentioned never copy. If there is a time signature change, the rhythms will probably be rewritten and it would be more work that it's worth, otherwise it will work if you keep in mind that you will need to re-enter all of the system items.
Changing the instrument is easier and always works without issues.
In reply to The answer is...it depends… by mike320
Well, I have a work-around now. I use edit Instrument to add a soprano voice and a bass voice? So I get the right layout except that the top line which is really the voice is labelled piano while the two staves for the piano are labelled soprano and bass. If I can live with this then I am on the right track with a Ford model T solution. Any ideas for a Rolls-Royce solution?
In reply to Well, I have a work-around… by Keith Paton
To change the staff names, right click the staff and choose Staff Properies.
In reply to Well, I have a work-around… by Keith Paton
The Rolls-Royce solution is to just change instruments as I described and then add the other instruments. If you prefer, you can add all of the voice instruments and a piano to the existing score, then copy and paste all of the notes from the existing staff to another staff, then go back into instruments and delete the piano you don't want. You then don't need to worry about system items.
In reply to The Rolls-Royce solution is… by mike320
Complex! I right click on the piano stave, left click stave properties, change instrument to Soprano (it's the mother who is singing). I don't see OK so I just hit ENTER and hope for the best. I get caught ina cycle out of which I cannot escape. I'm uploading the file as far as I've got.
In reply to Complex! I right click on… by Keith Paton
I don't know what you are doing, but I changed the first staff to a soprano for you.
In reply to I don't know what you are… by mike320
Many thanks. The intractable problem now is that a piano part is a special two-stave affair and what I have is two independent staves labelled Soprano and Bass. Still, I can live with that.
In reply to Many thanks. The intractable… by Keith Paton
I added the piano. You can move notes around then press i to open the instruments and remove any unneeded instruments.
In reply to I added the piano. You can… by mike320
Many thanks, Keith
In reply to Many thanks, Keith by Keith Paton
Now I have the piano treble clef part. I go to add the bass clef part.
I click on the whole note in the tool bar; then type g. I expect to see a whole note g appear in the bass; instead I see a quarter note at a on the top line of the bass line in piano and my selection of whole note in the tool bar has been replaced by a selection of a quarter note. Weird, eh! For some reason I am unable to upload my file for you; however it looks jut like I say here.
In reply to Now I have the piano treble… by Keith Paton
To enter notes, start by pressing N to enter note input mode. Pressing a letter of a note without first entering input mode will give you a quarter note and start note input mode.
Read https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/note-input for information on note input. There are some important links in there for piano music, including voices and tuplets. Make sure you follow those links. As you know we're more than happy to answer any further questions, but understanding these items will make writing your music much more enjoyable.