Entering different voices
I do not have problems to enter different voices in staves.
But only this, Musescore seems to count in a piano or grand score each staff separately. This means that one can enter till 4 voices in the upper staff and again till 4 voices in the lower staff, each of them counting 1, 2, 3, 4. But as far as I know, nobody is counting that way, especially when you want to enter polyfone music like Bach etc. When you want to write a fugue, you count voices 1, 2 (eventually 3) in the upper staff and voices (eventually 3) 4 and 5 in the lower staff.
If you say with this version (2.0.2) voice 1 and 2 in the upper staff and 3 and 4 in the lower staff, you get always rests for the complete bar in the lower staff which can't be removed (as far as I know). The view then is much more complicated as it has to be and at the end, you do not like the view of your score because of this inconvenience.
Peter
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If you say with this version (2.0.2) voice 1 and 2 in the upper staff and 3 and 4 in the lower staff, you get always rests for the complete bar in the lower staff which can't be removed (as far as I know)
Correct. Voice 1 needs to be complete in each staff.
So don't do it. Use Musescore's voices 1 & 2 in the treble staff and Musescore's voices 1&2 in the lower staff. If you entered your music already, select the measures (click on the first, shift click on the last) and go to Edit > Voice > Exchange voices
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Thanks for your reply.
But I only wanted to ask if this could be changed in a next version.
Again the 4-part fugue: voices 1 and 2 in the upper staff and voices 3 and 4 in the lower staff. Seems more logic (I hope not only) for me.
Same thing for vocal scores: voice 1 is Soprano voice 2 Alto, voice 3 Tenor and 4 Bass.
For both examples you do not count 2 times voice 1 and 2.
Peter
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Just don't think of the 4 voices per staff to be related in any form or shape to the 4 voices in a SATB choir. It is just a coincidence that the same words are used for these two different concepts.
In other software those voices are called layers.
Think further: what to do in a SATB plus Solo arrangement? You'd need a 5th voice then, but MuseScore has a max of 4.
Those 4 voices per staff are just 4 rhythmical independant lines of (possibly single note-)chords in a single staff, the other voices are sung music by Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass (and some more, like Bariton, Countertenor etc.)
In reply to Thanks for your reply. But by Peter Kestens
And there are many more uses for multple voices than just representing fugues. If you have a score with 17 staves and you need to access the third voice of staff number 14 - an extremely common situation when one considers music for larger ensembles - it would be unreasonable to ask people to do the math and figure out that this is voice 55 - just as it would be unreasoable to have 55 voice buttons, or to require people to type in a voice number in order to switch voice. There are four voices per staff, so four buttons are all there should beed to be, and the third voice of each staff should always be that third button.