Key Signatures
Greetings, Hive Mind,
I am doing an arrangement of Mahler 5. The key is C-Sharp Minor. I want to display the Bb parts in E-Flat Minor instead of D-Sharp Minor, but it won't let me. Whenever I do, it converts it to the major key signature. For example, D-Sharp Minor is six sharps. I drag the six-flats key signature over it, and it gives me four flats because it thinks that it is F-Sharp Major and is converting to A-Flat Major for the Bb instruments. MuseScore 1.3 did this EASILY. Why is this so screwed up? Or, am I screwed up and missing something to click? Please advise.
Thanks!
Charles
Comments
Does https://musescore.org/en/node/260491 help?
In reply to Does https://musescore.org… by Jojo-Schmitz
No. Still makes it Ab-Major instead of Eb-minor.
In reply to No. Still makes it Ab-Major… by charles.l.dalmas
Apply the C# minor to the score. Apply Ab major to the Bb part, then down a major second for the Bb part with key change.
Many if not most players of Bb and Eb instruments prefer sharps to flats, since they are accustomed to seeing more of them. So whatever change happens from 1.3 to 2. many years ago, it's better for manyt cases. But not indeed all. Are you sure you followed the steps in that howto fully? It's tricky, but it works for me. First transpose to key guaranteed to result in flats, then transpose again by interval, and it will preserve that spelling.
I think from your described you are making the mistake of actually changing the key signature. That's not part of the process. It's all in the Transpose dialog.
In reply to Many if not most players of… by Marc Sabatella
If your transcribing a score, it a lot easier to copy what's in the original than it is to transpose on the fly. That's the reason I came up with the workaround.
Go to staff properties and change the transposition from major second to diminished third. I believe that should work.