I have a question about parts and scores. I know the long way to fix
this, but I'm wondering if there is a short way.
Specifically, I'm writing an orchestral score that has, of course,
two parts per woodwind line. There are times when it alternates
between one part playing and two, so I keep the parts separate. For
example, the first part may play continuously, but the second part
may play only every other measure.
For this I'd keep the first part stems up, but the difficulty lies in
the second part where there is nothing in the measure. I'd like to
show the whole measure rest in the second part. But this part of the
music is in 3/8 time. That means forcing a whole measure rest (and
dealing with the annoying dialog box reminding me that I've put too
many beats there). Then, of course, extracting parts (first with
TGTools) is problemmatic, since I now have real rests instead of the
Finale make-believe rests (I forgot what they're called), which
botches up multi-measure rests.
I know that if I could just deal with a score with no rest in the
second part, or alternate putting in a "1." designating the solo
part, my problem is solved, but that's not the way scores are done
(I'm speaking of fairly rapid alternations of solo and duet parts,
not when a solo part plays for longer stretches). If I put in real
whole measure rests, then I must find them all when it's time to
prepare individual parts.
Am I missing something? Is there a way with Finale itself or a
plug-in that will help me here?
Thanks.
Andrew Levin
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