Treble (resp. bass clef) for triangle
It came up from a German user request (https://musescore.org/de/node/304886), he transcribes Bizet's "Carmen", and I'm just curious:
In classical scores it seems to be common to notate triangle with treble (maybe also bass clef?) with five note lines. Here are two examples (Bizet "Carmen", Mozart "The Abduction from the Seraglio"):
Is it a limitation of MuseScore and a missing feature?
Comments
You can specify as many staff liens as you want for triangle or any other instrument in staff/part properties.
You can't easily give an unpatched instrument a pitched clef, and I'd argue it is wrong to notate it this way. But if you really want this, you can notate it that way and then use some trickery to get a triangle sound (eg, an invisible sound, or try the new 3.5 version of instrument change feature which may or may not support changing to an unpatched instrument without choking)
In reply to You can specify as many… by Marc Sabatella
Thank's for reply. Shortly I had meanwhile a conversation with a professional musician of orchestral percussion in my neighborhood. He argued, that it doesn't really exist a standard notation for unpitched percussion an recommends to use for a single instrument to use a single note line - or by using different unpitched instruments in the same staff to indicate the change. In general in his experience it needs always a legend for the musician to interpret the notation.
I only took a short look of IMSLP scores, but it seems composers used in former times more treble or bass clefs - not sure in which time the percussion clef was introduced.
So my recommendation is after this talk to use a percussion clef instead of by transcribing such a score with trebel/bass clef - but maybe it could be stay as suggestion for early music notation/sores?