Enter one note, populate multiple staves (for tutti band parts?)

• Jan 18, 2019 - 16:57

Hey Muse Score team!

I love this project and all the work you have put into it! I am thinking of compiling a beginning band method book based on hip hop and was wondering if there is a way to write music for the whole band simaultaneously, IE as I enter notes on the flute part, it fills in on all the other instruments as well. This would save a lot of copy and pasting. Any thoughts?

Thanks so much for your time,

Jordan

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• Jan 18, 2019 - 17:11

I don't write code for MuseScore, but I can see an occasional use for such a feature. I've wished I had it a few times myself, but only for small sections of music at a time, so I rely on copy & paste.

If entire staves were tutti, I can see where linking instruments would be useful. In my case where I want the Flutes (on staff 1) and Violins (on staff 30) tutti for a few measures, I don't see a reasonable way to implement this.

Other thoughts?

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• Jan 19, 2019 - 01:39

You probably don't want the trombone in unison with the flutes, though, nor the timpani, much less the snare drums. While I could imagine someone coming up with a set of rules to cover these situations, in the end, copy and paste is a very good tool already.

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• Jan 21, 2019 - 00:37

I hear what you all are saying--what if there was a way to select which instrument parts are all being written for at a time? The context for this is beginning band music and transcribing basic hip hop that my students are already versed in so that they can learn to read music in a context that is relevant to them. Standard of Excellence and books like it are so distant from my students' organic experience of listening to music that it really turns them off from class, which I think is a real shame.

But I digress. If there was a way to write tutti parts for most of the concert band without copy and paste, it would seriously save me time.

Thanks!

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• Jan 21, 2019 - 00:42

I can't imagine any interface for selecting which staves you want to copy to "automatically" being less work than simply pasting to those same staves, but maybe I don't have a sufficiently active imagination :-). The only except would be if those staves happen to all be contiguous (which they wouldn't be in a standard orchestra setup because percussion would break things up, and different staves within the winds and within the strings would need different octaves). but at least for the special case of a handful of contiguous staves, there's been a request to have a way of making "paste" automatically reproduce to multiple staves if you range-select them all first. That seems reasonable and I guess would save a handful of clicks per score you do.

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