You can create all the parts you want in scroll view, then hide the ones you don't want in the score. The hidden parts all still appear in scroll view but will not appear in the page view score or the printed score. They CAN be used to create linked parts. I use this all the time for things like a baritone t.c. part in concert band pieces - I want to have the linked part, but I don't want it cluttering up the score. I also use it to create things like separate clarinet 1 and clarinet 2 parts if I want them together in the score, but separate as parts.
To hide a part in scroll view, just double click on the staff with the staff tool chosen to bring up the staff attributes dialog box. From here can choose "force hide staff" in the left hand column. Also choose "in score only" from the pop up menu beside it. By using the pop up menu at the top of this dialog box, you can choose all the staves you want to hide in one operation. You can enter all your music in your A, B, C parts, then just copy and paste in scroll view to get each part into the various parts you want to have playing that music. The A B C parts can be in concert pitch and they will transpose automatically as you paste them into each transposing hidden staff that you have set up. For best results use the score manager to add the extra parts - that way all the transpositions will be set up for you automatically. This can give you a lot of extra lines in the scroll view score, but only the parts you have not hidden (your A, B, C.... parts) will appear in the page view score. So even if your score has only six parts, you can have any number of linked parts based on those. Also, spacing of staves is completely independent in the two views, so you can just space the scroll view staves nice and evenly, and it won't affect any formatting you do in page view. I think this is a fantastic capability in Finale, one of the most useful things they have added. Brian Appleby ApRo Music On 2012-12-08, at 8:43 PM, Ralph Whitfield wrote: > Fellow listers, > > I have been racking my brain and scouring the documentation but I can't > get the answer to my dilemma that I swear exists. > > I want to write some charts/arrangements where I have four, five or six > parts, i.e. parts A, B, C, etc. I want to create multiple parts from > each part: i.e. Part A will have parts for C Flute, Bb Clarinet, Trumpet > 1 in Bb, Trumpet 1 in Eb, etc. > > I would rather only have the original parts in the score and only have > to deal with the transposed parts as the linked parts. > > I have tried multiple ways to create differently transposed parts from > the same source all to no avail. > > Is there some way to do this without having to have multiple parts in > the score? > > Thanks, > > Ralph > -- > Ralph W. Whitfield, Jr. > Bass Trombonist - Gadsden Symphony Orchestra > 2nd Trombone - Rome (GA) Symphony Orchestra > Bass Trombone - Kings of Swing > www.rainbowbrassmusic.com > "Trombonist by Nature, Engineer by Necessity." > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
