Changing clef mid-score

Changing clef partway through a score is the normal case, not a special one — select a measure and set a new clef, and it stays active on that staff from there forward until the next explicit change.

Changing clef

Select a measure and open the Bar tab’s clef submenu with F8 C, then a digit:

• 1 — Treble
• 2 — Treble 8vb
• 3 — Treble 8va
• 4 — Bass
• 5 — Bass 8vb
• 6 — Alto
• 7 — Tenor
• 8 — Percussion

What “mid-score” means here

A clef change is scoped to the staff and voice it’s applied to — other staves in the same part (or other parts entirely) keep whatever clef they already had. The new clef reads forward from that measure until you explicitly change it again; nothing resets it automatically at a section or line break.

Tips

• Treble 8vb and Bass 8vb/8va shift what octave the written clef sounds at (a tenor voice reading a treble clef an octave down, for instance) — they’re a distinct clef, not a treble/bass clef plus a separate octave marking.
• Time and key signature changes work the same “active from this point forward” way — see Changing time and key signature.