Changing choral voices from treble to bass clef and vice versa

• May 15, 2019 - 21:05

I have transcribed an arrangement of Mood Indigo for a male voice choir. The musical director has asked me to do a mixed voice version. He tells me that all I need to do is give the Bass 1 to the Alto line and vice versa in the suitable clef. Is there a way of doing this within Musescore without having to manually change each note?
Yours, Olive Brookes

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You don't have an existing alto part so I'm not sure how you expect to change the alto to bass, but I changed the first bass part to an alto part in about 30 seconds.

Right click the staff and choose staff/part properties
Click "Change instruments"
In the vocals select alto
Drag the treble clef from the palette to the alto voice part
select the first measure and press ctrl+shift+end to select the entire part
press ctrl+up arrow to change all notes up an octave

The first bass is now the alto part.

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In reply to by oddy.brookes@g…

Changing the pitches put the notes where altos can actually sing then notes. Altos can't sing bass notes. If you mean lowering an alto part down and octave and changing to the bass clef will allow basses to sing it, that should work. You do need to take a look to make sure all notes are singable by the Bass. When I changed the Bass to Alto, I looked at it quickly it looked like all the notes would be able to be sung by an alto.

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