Creating a cover page and prevent it being inherited by parts
When creating a cover page and possibly additional front material such as a list of instruments, I have noticed that it is inherited by the parts. This wouldn't be much of a problem if the name of the part could also appear on the first real sheet music page of the part, but any attempt to insert the name of the part on, say, page 2, leads to the part name on the cover page. Is it possible to insert a part name elsewhere?
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I've found a workaround: Insert or copy and paste a subtitle or any other text on the frame above the first staff, give it the style "Instrument name (part)" and then enter manually the part name.
Another (better): select and copy the part name from the cover page and paste it into the frame above the first staff. In this case there is no need to enter the part name.
Add / Text / Part Name?
In reply to Add / Text / Part Name? by Marc Sabatella
Didn't work when there is already a part name on the first page (the cover page). I wanted it also on the second page, the one where the music really begins, so that I can discard the cover and still have the name of the part on the parts delivered to the players, since the cover is only intended for the full score but it is inherited by the parts.
To be more specific, I have two vertical frames, one containing the cover and filling the first page, and the other, smaller, containing the piece name and composer on the second page right above the music. When attempting the normal procedure you describe on the latter, the box for inputting text jumps to the first page.
I agree this would be useful since a common page in a score is a list of instruments. There is no need for this page, or some other pages I've seen, to be propagated to the parts. Making the contents such a page invisible only creates empty pages.
By creating a cover sheet I have really messed up printing my MuseScore3 score. I tried to follow comments I found in forums, but one fix causes another disaster.
Basically, adding a cover sheet added it to all parts (see file "...with cover sheet"). Then I deleted the cover sheet and will print the score by adding a pdf cover sheet I made separately (see file "...omit cover sheet"). Still, when I deleted the cover sheet a number of parts were affected:
-- The Bb Trumpet 2&3 part, as well as others, lost its title block. How to replace? Copy/paste didn't work. I tried to retype but it caused other problems on other parts.
-- The Trombone 3 part, as well as others, added multiple parts of the score's Cover Sheet I had deleted previously.
Would you please help with a solution to the problem if it's possible? I can make do with the file "...omit cover sheet" if there is a way to replace title block lost by parts.
Thanks!
Merrick Felder
In reply to By creating a cover sheet I… by merrickfelder
If you add a new title to the score, it should appear in the parts automatically. When I open your score "omit CoverSheet", so maybe it was a temporary glitch fixed by the save & reload? Looks fine in both MU3 and MU4.
Frames added to the score automatically appear in the parts, but every once in a while a bug might cause them to get out of sync. Deleting the frame from score and parts then and re-adding it to the score should work. At worst, you might need to delete and regenerate the parts (or reset them, in MU4).
In reply to If you add a new title to… by Marc Sabatella
I reloaded "omit CoverSheet" but this did not fix the file as you mention. Maybe I am misunderstanding? I uninstalled and reinstalled Musescore 3.6 and my title block was omitted from certain parts (re: Trumpet 3&4), and the added frames still appeared on other parts (re: Baritone Horn 1&2). See screen grabs below. Is there any hope for me?
I am not anxious to migrate the file to MU4 because it takes me a long time to edit all the parts -- or that's been my experience in MU3.
In reply to I reloaded "omit CoverSheet"… by merrickfelder
Oh, I see - yes, many of the parts are fine, but a few have issues. So delete just those parts and regenerate them.