Staff Styles
Let’s say you wanted your
woodwind player to switch between flute and clarinet in the middle of
the piece—not uncommon for a jazz band piece. The Staff Attributes sets
the default transposition for the staff through the entire piece, but
Staff Styles add the ability to shape your staff on a measure-by-measure
basis. Staff Styles can do a lot more than just transpositions; for more
information, see Staff Styles in the User
Manual.
For this experiment, we’ll
switch to flute for measures 5 through 8.
- Click
the Staff Tool .
- From
the View menu, choose Page View.
- Scroll
to the second page by clicking on the right arrow next to Page at the
bottom of the window.
- Click
on the first measure of the top system, Clarinet staff, then -click on the last measure of the Clarinet staff on the top
system. Make sure you don’t click to the left of the staff or you
may accidentally select every measure in the staff. The Staff Style we’ll
apply will affect only the measures we’ve selected without changing the
clarinet transposition for the rest of the piece.
- From
the Staff menu, choose Apply Staff Style To > Score and Parts (or Current Part/Score). The Apply Staff Style
dialog box appears with a selection of pre-defined Staff Styles. Keep
in mind you can create your own Staff Styles to suit your own needs. You
can even create a library of Staff Styles you can load into any document.
- Double-click
on Flute Transposition. (You may need to scroll down.) Your clarinet
staff now has a flute staff name and a C instrument transposition. Note
that Finale adds a blue bar above the measures. These non-printing bars
show you where Staff Styles have been applied and can be turned off in
the Staff menu (uncheck Show Staff Styles). If you scroll back to page
1, you’ll see that your earlier measures are still in a clarinet transposition
and don’t have marker bars.
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