Shared fullscore title for multiple instruments

• May 6, 2018 - 04:58
Reported version
3.0
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

For example, two separate violin parts, displayed under one bracket with the word "violins" only one and Roman numeral leaving the two staves. But they are separate parts and appear separately in the part section. I am suggesting a way to group separate parts, and use one name for them all.

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• May 6, 2018 - 19:20
Status (old) active ⇒ needs info
Status active ⇒ needs info

It is possible to do what is done with the horns in the existing templates. There is a staff added to a horn and the clef is changed on the second staff to assure the notes can be entered correctly, and the instrument name is automatically centered on the staves.

The Drawbacks to this solution are that

  1. the two staves are ALWAYS extracted to the same part.
  2. The default for dynamics, hairpins and dynamics lines (like cresc.) default to affect all staves for an instrument. The dynamics must be changed to affect only the staff. This is quite simple after all dynamics are entered because you only need to make 3 changes, All of the dynamic, all of the hairpins and all of the dynamics lines. In many cases you can make this change for every dynamic in the piece, unless there is a harp, piano or other grand staff instrument.
  3. I don't believe mid-staff instrument changes can be made for a singe staff, but I know sound changes can (mute, pizzicato...)

Having said said all of this, I am in favor of instrument groups.

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• May 7, 2018 - 04:40

"Your example is poor. I've never seen a tenor and bass trombone on the same staff or even share a part name for two staves, especially European score where the tenor trombone is written with the tenor clef. I have seen brackets to show that they are the same family of instruments."
I've never seen that either. Usually they are staves individually and by pitch and connected by a bracket with the labeling "trombone". (If you need an example, find something on Musopen.) I never said they were written in the same stave. Being written with different clefs, writing them on the same stave would be extremely confusing. This is why groups are necessary: to allow collective labeling with each stave exporting separately.

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