Editing Staff Symbols

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Editing Staff Symbols

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In Musician, the following symbols are grouped together in the Staff Palette:

B816Brackets and braces

BracketsAndBraces

B816Clefs

Cleffs

B816Key signatures

KeySignatures

B816Meters (time signatures)

Meters

B816Barlines

Barlines

B816Repetition marks

RepetitionMarks

B8168va octaves

OctaveStaffSymbol

B816Rehearsal Marks

RehearsalMarkInro

These staff symbols all have the general property that they affect the interpretation or organization of notes that are within their relatively large scope. The scope of their effect is generally larger than, for example, the effect of an accidental or ornament on an adjacent notehead.

To add a staff symbol, first navigate to the Staff Symbol Palette, or type one of the SHIFT+Letter shortcuts, as shown below:

StaffSymbolPaletteNavigationAndExplained

Procedures for adding and editing each of these types of staff symbols are described in the topics that follow.