Title: Need notation advice for a composition for large concert b
I have composed a large (some 236 measures!) work for full concert band.   That was the easy part, and here is the notational problem.

I have composed my score in pencil on paper, as is my custom, and am ready now to start entering the score, on my 2002b software.    I want to do the score "in C", and then extract the parts in their appropriate transpositions.  That  (I think) I can handle!

Here's where I need help!   In the score I would like to be able to pair certain instruments on a single staff, like,  Flutes 1&2, Oboes 1&2, etc.  If I entered a pair of instruments in the score in a  single staff, is it possible then to extract  the parts for Flute 1 and for Flute 2 separately?!  (And, of course, also for Oboes, Bassoons, Alto Saxophones, Horns, Trombones...)

If there is no way to do this, does it mean that one needs to enter each instrument on a separate staff in order to be able to  extract each part separately.  Right, or not?!  The down-side to that is that it makes for a very long (vertical) score when you have a large instrumentation.

Well, there is my question.  I will be most grateful for your expert commentz.

Karl Kohn
Professor of Music  and
Composer in Residence emeritus
Pomona College
Claremont, California

909 607-4568

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