From Newsgroup: uk.religion.christian

I have a number of hymns I have transcribed to be displayed on my
computer (my display program allows the words to be projected on screen
while the music is shown on a monitor on the organ/piano). There are
several reasons for this: it saves me having to carry around a pile of different music books or otherwise being restricted to just a single
book which may not have the hymn I wish to use; it enables me to "tweak"
the melody, as sometimes the music in the book will go up where I am
used to it going down and everyone sings the down in any case (or, of
course, vv.); it enables me to move hymns down by a couple of notes.

This latter is particularly useful with aging congregations who are no
longer able to reach the high notes.

However my girl-friend plays the Bb clarinet but lacks the ability to transpose on sight, so I have been going through and adding a clarinet
part to these hymns.

First create an extra line of music (an extra stave) and label it as Bb clarinet. Then select the previously top line (the treble clef), copy it
and paste it into the new stave. The really useful thing is that
MuseScore automatically transposes it so that an F becomes a G, a C
becomes a D, and so on.

Annoyingly, it does not change the key signature; you have to do that by
hand.

You can label the extra stave for various instruments - Eb clarinet is
one - and I presume the auto-transposition will work for them all.

Anyway, just in case others are facing a similar problem with needing to transpose music for different instruments, I thought you might be
interested in this feature in MuseScore, a free music program.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down
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