Staff Distance and Overlapping Note Stems
Hi MuseScore, please see the image attached: its a song that i'm trying to arrange and i've used the Hymn Template on the software.
PROBLEM 1
I've copy-pasted the notes from my previous arrangement; now I used voice 1 and 2 (in blue and green notes) for the soprano and alto. In that part there in the picture, only the SA sings that's why there are no bass notes. Now, I'd like to know if there's a way to merge voice 1 and 2 together so they'll look like a chord instead of two separate voices.
PROBLEM 2
The problem on the bottom of the image shows stems overlapping. I made the page fill threshold 100% so when I edit the page, changes will take place. Then, I tried resizing the staff distance but nothing happned. Is it because I used the Hymn Template? What can I do?
Thanks!
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Comments
1. Try the explode/implode plugin it had been made for this.
2. Use accolade or grand staff distance (not sure what it is called in your language), this hymn tempate uses only on Instrument (a piano), but with 2 staves, and '"staff distance" is more like "instrument distance". Similar for "hide empty staves", which really is "hide unsued instruments", at least in 1.x
Plugins can help autoate a large task, to be sure. But if it's just about those few notes, I'd simply delete the ones from vocie 2 and add them too voice 1. Notes can be combined by clicking one and typing Shift+ to add the specified note.
The staff distance affects distance between staves of different instruments. The Hymn template apparently uses a single instrument with two staves. That's why you need Accolade distance. Or, if it's just that one spot that is an issue, you could simply shorten the stems - double click a stem to edit it, or for beamed notes, double click the beam.
EDIT: JoJo beat me in responding, and then again in editing his post to add the detail I tried to fill in!
In reply to Plugins can help autoate a by Marc Sabatella
or use a spacer
Why do you want to put S and A into the same voice?
The poor bemused altos would be wondering where their part had gone!
And the second sopranos would be thinking - "I can't sing that low!"
In reply to Why do you want to put S and by ChurchOrganist
Just a matter of conventions.
stems up -> soprano, stems down->alto
vs.
upper notes ->soprano, lower notes alto.
The latter convention results in a score that takes less space.
Seen e.g. for many songs of Taizé, http://taize.fr
The former allows for e.g. Soprano 1 and Soprano 2
In reply to Just a matter of by Jojo-Schmitz
The latter convention is a) academically incorrect, and b) open to confusion.
Which is why of course the academic standard is to show parts by stem direction.
hey guys... thanks to your replies; i'm goiing to work on my arrangement now. :) i just read them today. been busy at school. anyway, i hope you don't fight because of my question. lol, thanks again
In reply to Thanks! by KCMusikero
no fights, just discussions ;-)