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Title: Adding piano accompaniment to existing SATB score
Post by: nahon on 2007-12-13 11:04 PM
Using NWC v1.75b. Can someone tell me how to add a piano accompaniment (left and right hand) to an already written SATB score? If I select from staff "add new staff" it just adds another staff to SATB. What I was looking for is adding the accompaniment as a separate group. Prhaps there is a way of setting a new score with both SATB and accompaniment and then importing the existing SATB and subsequently entering an accompaniment ? I have not found anything workable sofar . Any help is appreciated.
Title: Re: Adding piano accompaniment to existing SATB score
Post by: Lawrie Pardy on 2007-12-14 11:08 AM
Add 2 staves - they whould appear at the bottom of the screen.

Select the first staff and press <Alt-Enter> - this takes you to the staff properties dialogue where you can select the "Style" on the "Visual" tab.  For the top one of the pair select "Upper Grand Staff, and for the bottom one select "Lower Grand Staff".  Once both are selected you will have a brace between them and barlines will not connect into the rest of the score.

For most circumstances you can also select the same MIDI channel for both staves.  Do this from the MIDI tab in the staff properties dialogue.
Title: Re: Adding piano accompaniment to existing SATB score
Post by: William Ashworth on 2007-12-14 05:05 PM
To add a bit to Lawrie's reply:


Hope this helps....
Title: Re: Adding piano accompaniment to existing SATB score
Post by: nahon on 2007-12-14 10:29 PM
Lawrie, William.
Thanks a lot for the reply, it works fine. As you might have figured I am not experienced nor a regular user. Just trying to put some stuff , mostly handwritten , from our choir on printable format. Thanks again. Ton.