Confused on how to transpose instruments in Musescore
Currently, I am arranging a piece of music I picked for my quartet group in school. I come across this problem in which I have extra sharps/flats on my instruments combined with the key signature of the piece. I know that it must be the key of the instruments that was the problem (Like Flute is in the key of C while an Alto Sax is in the key of Eb). So I thought of enabling Concert Pitch. It did remove the extra sharps in the instruments but it shift the key of all instruments into the key of C, which shifted the notes...
Is there a way to remove those extra sharps/flats of instruments because they're in a different key? I can just cross out the extra sharps/flats when my score gets printed, but is there a way while also keeping both placement and the sound of the notes on the piece of music I'm arranging?
(I'm still a little noob when it comes to composing. I am taking AP music theory next year :P)
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The way it works is, you should do your composing with concert pitch turned on - then all the keys will be the same, and you can enter the notes you want to hear. Then, when you're done, turn concert pitch off, and everything is transposed correctly (key signatrues and notes) automatically so the parts can be played by the musicians.
For more info, see the Handbook section on transposing, and also, your AP music theory class :-)
But, it seems your score is correct from what I can tell - I don't see any "extra" sharps, just the ones that the transposition makes necessary. Is there a particular sharp somewhere you feel doesn't belong there?