Teaching music  

The tenor clef in SATB scores and how to use Score Templates  

If you produce four part vocal scores you will need the octave treble clef for your tenors. To get it you have to go into the Score Template and look under 'Additional Clefs' (the so called 'common clefs' in this the top of this window do not include this, the tenor clef listed there is a C clef).

Until we can have the octave tenor clef more accessible the quick way to start a score containing the octave treble clef is to use a Score Template.

To open a score template go to FILE | NEW and select 'From Template'. You will see your capella files. When you open an appropriate score you will see a single stave - this is intentional! To insert the staves press CTRL+ENTER. If you prefer using the mouse click on INSERT | STAVE. In the window which comes up you can click on the 'Select all staves' button or tick the staves that you need at this point.

If you need more staves in your new score, press the System Template button and expand the template.

It has always been possible to print large, single notes - with no stave lines - in capella (but apparently this is not possible in other similar programs!).
The instructions below show you how to do it.

• Press File | New | Empty Score
• Ctrl+M to open the Score Template. In the Spacing tab, under Stave Line Spacing, enter a number such as 15. In the Clef tab click No clef. In the Stave Lines tab click 'Delete stave line' and click on all five stave lines to delete them.
   
  Press Ctrl+M to return to the score. Set 'no time signature' and enter the notes you need. You will need to have colour information switched off, because otherwise you will see the tempo setting.
• If you want ta, ta-te etc. underneath the note enter this as text.
• If you set the zoom for Whole Page you will see how large the notes will print out on an A4 page.
• If you want to save this as a bitmap image you will be able to open the file in Windows Photo and Fax Viewer. If it makes it more flexible for printing elsewhere, you can save it as a TIFF file. 

To get the notes on the stave placed regardless of note duration go to FORMAT | SCORE FORMAT | Note Spacing tab and move the slider bar. 

• This is useful if you want to produce teaching material, for example if you are asking pupils to insert barlines. It is of course easy just to switch off the time signature by selecting No Metre, however the relative spacing of the notes will still be logical, making it visually quite easy to spot where the barlines should be inserted.