better just combine the violins as described by mats but as \voiceOne and
the viola as \voiceTwo:
\new Staff {
\new Voice {\voiceOne << \viI \viII >>
\new Voice {\voiceTwo \vla}
}
then you might use \change Staff to send the viola in bar 19 to the left
hand staff for better readability
Am Mi., 20. Aug. 2025 um 14:29 Uhr schrieb Mats Bengtsson <
matsboxergr...@gmail.com>:
> On 2025-08-20 12:57, Raphael Mankin wrote:
>
> \partCombine will combine two parts, but is there a way of combining
> three? I have tried
>
> \partCombine \partCombine VoiceA VoiceB VoiceC
>
> and a couple of variants, but they all yield strange outputs and error
> messages. I am using the Merge_rests_engraver.
>
> As long as all the parts share the same rhythm, you could do something as
> simple as
>
> \version "2.24.4" viI = \relative c'' { \key as \major r8 c es r r bes es
> r | } viII = \relative c'' { \key as \major r8 as c r r g bes r | } vla =
> \relative c' { \key as \major r8 es as r r es g r | } \score{ \new Staff{
> \new Voice << \viI \viII \vla >> } }
>
> /Mats
>
>
