Adding staves
I'm not much of musician and new to Musescore but please bear with my ignorance. I'm editing a score that I've converted from pdf and imported into Musescore 2. As might be expected, various things have gone slightly awry in the process and I'm now editing the Musescore file.
One problem I have is that some staves have been omitted (and some blank staves inserted). The music is made up of different sections with different numbers of staves. Is there a way of adding a stave (an instrument?) to just one section of the score and of deleting a stave from other sections? Adding an instrument adds it to the whole score and hiding blank staves in the whole score does some very strange things to the lyrics.
Could I treat each section as a separate score, edit them separately and then join them into an album?
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'hide empty staves' should be the answer to the first question. If it 'does some very strange things' to lyrics, we'd Need to see the score to check
Yes, you could treat sections as separate score and joid them later via the album feature
In reply to 'hide empty staves' should be by Jojo-Schmitz
And definitely post the score so we can check out the problem with lyrics, even if you end up deciding to use albums instead. If it's truly separate songs, or really very separate parts of a single score, then using Albums may make sense, but post anyhow so we can investigate the lyrics problem. If it's just a case of a "condensed score" - one piece but they used the equivalent of "hide empty staves" in their software as well - then using Albums is not really the right solution.
Many thanks for the prompt reply. I've started splitting the score into sections and then editing them (which is working so far) but haven't tried joining them up again yet.
I've attached a "Ceremony test" file. If you check bar 55 before and after hiding empty staves, you'll see that the top line of lyrics "Dice Turce" disappears. It is still there in the "separate" version (presumably because there are no empty staves in the section).
The score is for Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Lully.
In reply to Adding staves by Coltrans
You mean the words you added above the top staff? Those aren't lyrics as far as MuseScore is concerned; those appear to be plain text items. Lyrics need notes or rests to attach to. I guess that's supposed to indicate a spoken passage? So the problem you have is that since there are notes or rests in those measures, MuseScore treats them as empty. To prevent that, place invisible notes somewhere in that passage - like one per measure. Or even visible ones, perhaps with "x" noteheads, to indicate the desired rhythm.
It's been suggested that MuseScore add a more direct way of specifying that a certain measure or range of measure is not empty and should not be hidden. But for now, invisible notes are the solution.
In reply to You mean the words you added by Marc Sabatella
Yes, those are the words (not added by me but taken from the original score). Invisible notes solve the problem - thanks very much.
I've got another problem in the same file. The text at the bottom of each page "Le Mufti, quatre dervis...", which has appeared after extracting the music from the pdf looks like a footer (and changes size when I change the footer font size) but I cannot select it or delete it. Is there a solution? Many thanks!
In reply to Added words and "footer" by Coltrans
Solution to what? You've already found how to change the font for the footer Do you want to edit or delete the footer now, perhaps? That's under Style / General / Footer.
In reply to Solution to what? You've by Marc Sabatella
Thanks; I can hide the footer, which means I do not need to edit it. The text does not appear under "Style / General / Footer" so I still don't understand how to edit it if necessary.
In reply to Editing footer by Coltrans
Style/General/Footer refers to the meta tag "$:copyright:" who's content you'd find under File/Info
In reply to Style/General/Footer refers by Jojo-Schmitz
That's it! Apologies for my ignorance but it takes some getting used to. Many thanks.