Measures and staves (2) |
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How to move a staff? [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] In this lesson, we will learn how to modify the layout of
measures and staves. In order to work on a practical example, open the Ex046 example
document. It is displayed as follows: Remark: Pizzicato Soloist only
enables one staff. The above example will be open in a
demonstration mode to follow the example. You may come back to
the Soloist mode in the Options menu, Working
mode item. Open the main palette and select the measures tool If you wish to have more space between both staves (to add
lyrics for example), place the mouse cursor in the middle of a
measure in the lower staff, click while keeping the mouse button
down and go gradually downwards. A rectangle follows your
movement. By releasing the mouse button, the lower staff is
redrawn lower (the upper staff has not moved) : Let us see now what happens if there is more than 2 staves.
Double-click on measure 1 on the lower staff. Fill in the dialog
box so as to add 0 measure and 2 staves and click OK. The result
is now: Now move the second staff upwards, so as to reduce the space
which separates it from the first. Again, a rectangle follows
your movement, but this time the rectangle includes the three
lower staves. By releasing the mouse, you get the following
result: The rule is that when you move a staff, you move all the lower
staves at the same time . Exercise yourself to handle staves: How to modify the width of a measure? [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] By following the above example, the score is now displayed as
follows: Imagine that you wish to widen this measure. There is a very
easy way to do it. Place the mouse cursor in the area located
just before the end of the measure: and click while keeping the mouse button down. Then drag the
mouse to the right and a rectangle follows your movement. By
releasing the mouse button, the measure is redrawn with the
expected size: To shorten a measure, do the same operation by dragging to the
left. Shorten the measure to obtain: Notice that Pizzicato has automatically moved the notes at
equal distances in the measure. You can avoid that by executing
the same operation while holding the Ctrl key down. You get for
example: When you work in linear mode (this is also valid in global
mode), there are three ways to adjust the width of several
measures. Exercises Close Pizzicato and restart it. Open the Ex046 example
again. Decrease the width of measure 4 by half. Notice that the
measure located below it also resizes. For an orchestra score
with for example 16 superimposed staves, all 16 staves are
resized together. Open the Ex047 example. By using what you learned
here, correct the layout of measures and staves to get:
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