Michael,
Thank you for your explaination. Just one point I meant you to explain
more: I saw the cross staff notes sub-menue in Sibelius, and there are
2 option to choose: move up a staff and move down a staff. If you are
familiar, please let me know the difference. Anyway I will ask to a
sighted person to explain that by trying on Sibelius.
Dale, sometimes you have a passage in which notes or chords shift
quickly from one hand's register to another one. In such a case, if
you write them in 2 staves in normal way, you have to write many
pauses with little duration between the notes in one hand while the
other hand is playing and viceversa. Therefore it's better to write
all the passage on one staff because it's much more comfortable for
pianist to read it.
Kind regards,
Saeed
On 5/15/17, Michael Arnowitt <MA@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With regard to your first question, I am a pianist and if you put the right
hand music stems up and put the left hand music on the same staff with stems
down by creating a second voice with alt 2, a pianist would often naturally
play the stems down notes with their left hand, particularly if the bottom
staff is blank.
If you want to make absolutely sure, attach text to the first note of the
passage under the left hand music and write as text:
L.H. with the L and H capital letters, or
m.g. with the m and g in lower case letters, or
m.s. with the m and s in lower case letters
and put the text in parentheses, such as (L. H.)
The first is the English abbreviation for left hand, the second is the
French abbreviation, the third is the Italian abbreviation - any of these
will be understood by pianists.
About your second question have you tried creating a cross staff beam which
creates a horizontal beam inbetween the two staffs of the piano music, with
the lower staff notes stems up to the beam and the upper staff notes stems
going down to the same beam. Maybe if you do this first, you can then create
successfully one long slur.
I think the cross-staff beam is perhaps under the Notes menu.
Michael
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Hi everybody.
I have 2 questions as follows, and I'll be very thankful if you can help
me:
1: I'm writing a piano score and in a certain point I need to write
the notes of both hands in one staff. How may I sign that this passage
which is in one staff is for both hands?
2: This part contains 2 related questions, again regarding piano staff:
A: When there's a passage which starts in one hand and continues in
another and needs to be slurd, how is it possible to select both
staves to put the slur?
B: Such an issue as the previous for writing tremolo between 2 hands.
Here there are 2 issues, selecting staves and putting beams of tremolo
which have to be appeared between the staves if I'm not wrong.
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Saeed
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