Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Hi all,
In the score I'm working on, the composer changes the
instrument and bracketing order.
>From start to left side of page 23:
[Fl-Ob-Cl-BCl-Bsn] [Hn-Trp-Trb-Tba] [Perc1/2] [Vn1/2-Vla-Vcl-Cb]
>From right side of page 23 to end:
[Fl-Cl-BCl-Trp-Vn1-Vcl] [Bsn-Hn-Trb-Tba-Vn2-Vla] [Ob] [Perc1/2] [Cb]
Any suggestions for the least kludgy way to do this, especially
considering that the change begins mid-page?
My thought is to make just page 23 a visual change, relabeling
staves with expressions and adding graphical brackets, as I did
earlier in the score where he creates just a few measures of
re-ordered score.
Then for the full changed pages 24-28, I would add brackets to the
instrument groups (which would make a messy overlap in its
unoptimized condition), then optimize those pages, drag the
staves into place, and delete the original brackets from those
staves. That should leave the instruments in order and the new
brackets correctly positioned, and the brackets should not
appear on the already-optimized pages 1-23.
How does that sound?
Well, I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean. If it were me,
I'd most likely create double staves for the instruments which appear in
multiple positions in the score. In scroll view, my score would appear:
FL-OB-CL-BCL-trp-vn1-vcl-BSN-HN-TRP-TRB-TBA-vn2-vla-ob-PERC1/2-VLN1/2-VLA-VCL-CB
In the first portion of the piece, the Oboe would be notated on the
staff OB, in the latter, on the stave labeled ob; likewise the TRP would
be notated in the first part on the staff "TRP", and in the latter on
"trp". Where the makeup of the "choirs" changes, the notation would
switch from one staff to the other, and when all is complete, the unused
part of both staves can be optimized away. The brackets can be changed
by extending lengths in page view on the affected systems, or by staff
styles.
When all is complete, BTW, I would create a duplicate score, and copy
the material from ob to OB, and from trp to TRP &c, to create a separate
"parts" score to permit extraction of each instrument's part on a single
(set of) page(s).
ns
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