Aaron Sherber wrote:
Really? I keep my "parts score" around, in case I need to make revisions. Copying and pasting changes from the main score to the parts score is, for me, much faster than re-creating the parts score from the main score, with all the cues, etc.
Eh? I agree with David if you are treating the "parts score" as anything but a temporary working file. The parts are already one forked copy. Keeping another strikes me as wasted extra effort and just a big opportunity for error.
Think about it. Suppose revision X is such that you cannot directly copy it from the score to the part. This means you have to enter it twice no matter what. Either you enter it once in the score and once in the part, or you enter once in the score and once in the "parts score" and then copy from the "parts score" to the part. In this case, the "parts score" seems like an unnecessary extra step.
I am aware that my needs are utterly different than those of some, esp. in New York theatre circles. I undertand from my contacts in that circle that often there never really is a score as I am accustomed to thinking about it. In that case, perhaps the "parts score" has some value. But for my work I can't see it.
I always delete my "parts score" as soon as I have extracted the last part, to avoid any confusion that I might need to keep it up to date.
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