Systems, varying the number of staffs for different parts of the score.
Hello all, I'm new to this forum and am engaged in transcribing some old manuscript organ music. At one point the treble line splits into two parts, each for a different tone quality (played on two manuals). The music is much easier to read if these parts are split onto separate staves. How do I add another stave, making four in total, just for this half page or so? Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.
Chris
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If you open the instruments (press i) you will be able to add a staff using the button in the middle toward the bottom. Do not add a linked staff. When you press OK, the fourth staff will be on the entire instrument and the default clef will be the bass clef. Change this at the beginning of the instrument. After you add the notes for the second treble clef, use the Style->General... menu and check "Hide empty staves" then uncheck "Don't hide empty staves in first system" you will then have the extra staff only where notes have been added.
In reply to If you open the instruments … by mike320
Thanks a lot! I'll try it when I get to the appropriate piece in my transcribing, I have about 18 sides to go before I get there. I'm working on a 1903 copy of an unpublished c1901 work, an eminent librarian, archivist and musicologist thinks that it may be the only extant source for this music.
In reply to Thanks a lot! I'll try it… by Organizer
A word of warning, If you have not entered the rest of the song, you will not be able to see empty staves later in the music if you are using page view and the one you added will not be empty in continuous view, so you may want to wait to hide empty staves. Since you have several staves on a single instrument you will have to live with the extra staff that is usually empty until you are done with the rest of the song. Of course you could always wait until the end to add the final staff and its notes, then hide empty... and you won't have an extra staff to deal with. This is the method I would use. I also would not get too wrapped up in making sure the layout is perfect until after all of the notes are entered into all staves. This is mostly because the extra staff will greatly affect the layout on the page(s) it's seen on. You can then take the opportunity of correcting the layout to double check what you've entered as well.
In reply to A word of warning, If you… by mike320
I got it all done.
Create score, choose instrument (pipe organ).
In right hand panel highlight stave 1 and add a stave, use the arrows to move it to the top.
Choose key-sig, time-sig, number of bars.
Change top stave form bass to treble clef.
Delete the bracket from the manual parts (staves 2 and 3), put in a new one and stretch it over staves 1,2 and 3.
I generally use continuous view so now enter all the music.
Change to page view, hide empty staves, including the first, the manual bracket adjusts automatically.
Tidy up any layout issues.
Thanks Mike