How to Create a Palette for Organ Solo With Pedal Line
I admit: I am a new user. How do I create and save a "Palette" for Organ Solo, with Treble and Bass clef as for piano, but with a Pedal line added below? None of those ready-made Palettes listed under 'Choral' are suitable, non having a separate bass clef line for Pedal. I really don't need the SATB portion provided with those for my purpose, either.
Combining Pedal notes on the Bass clef with the left-hand notes is confusing and only adopted by popular and sacred music publishers to conserve printing space. My first efforts to create such a form were unsatisfactory. It would be nice for 'Organ Solo' to become a ready-made Palette. I had hoped there would be such a thing when I paid for a year's subscription, but here we are. Thank you in advance for any advice or assistance.
Best Regards,
John
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Rather than trying to solve this with a special Palette, perhaps you can create your ideal layouts as Templates? See the Handbook section on this topic:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/create-new-score#templates
File >New
Insert title etc. [Enter]
Type “organ“ in the Search box [Enter]
Look down the list and select “Organ“ [Enter]
Set up Key Signature and Time Signature etc.
> "I had hoped there would be such a thing when I paid for a year's subscription, but here we are."
I keep hoping that people that pay for things read up on what they pay for. You've likely purchased a Pro subscription on the score sharing platform musescore.com
The notation software however doesn't care about that at all and is always 100% completely free and fully featured.
Note that in the 18th century and before, real organ music pedaliter in fact was written on two staves. The gorgeous publication of the E-flat Prelude and Fugue (BWV 552) reveals this. Keep in mind, though, that the MuseScore "organ" is a "grand staff", which means all three staves are on the same channel/registration, and (especially in light of the old MS "Church Organ"'s plenum registration with hints of a 16' register), this is rarely right (sounding). If visual appearance only is the issue, this will not be a problem, but if you're really trying to enter organ music that sounds like organ music, other techniques, notably organ sound fonts, virtual pipe organs, and approximation by not-quite-organ instruments, all with a channel/instrument per staff, are necessary.
Just to summarize:
What you are talking about is not really a palette (that's the list of symbols you can add to a score), but a template (a list of instruments that define the empty score).
The way to do that is set up one score the way you want, then say it to your Templates folder. It will then show in the list under "Custom Templates" next time you create a score.
None of this has anything to do with any account you might have created on the score-sharing website msuescore.com - that has no bearing whatsoever on the features of MuseScore itself. It only affects what you can do on that website.
In reply to Just to summarize: what… by Marc Sabatella