Andrew Stiller wrote:
I do have to cavil at the quoted sentence however. In 19th-c. music, such staff-sharing is commonplace in orchestral scores.
My comment was not meant as a criticism of the content but rather a description of the notation. In many such 19th-c. scores, the notation is quite simple, and for these Finale's voicing rules may be sufficient.
On the other hand, Mahler 1 (wh/ I believe was still 19th-c) does not limit itself to each part on a single staff. Parts migrate between staves as needed. For these scores, Finale's voicing rules are definitely insufficient.
I suspect from all this that linked parts will indeed prove invaluable for chamber music, but not for orchestral.
If that's what you are taking away, you have missed my point. My point is that *even for complicated orch. scores* you can still benefit from linked parts, despite that you probably have to have a separate score file. Using linked parts functionality is not either/or.
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