Baritone Sax score and part transpositions

  1. chose the instrument @Lillie_Harris showed in her Screenshot
  2. select the first clef in your bari and hit backspace/delete

Dorico takes care of the rest :slight_smile:

Yeah!!!

Thanks!

Just to nitpick, this isn’t really named correctly. It should be ā€œBass Clef Concert Score.ā€ If I’m writing and switching back and forth between concert and transposed scores, it will show in treble clef in the ā€œfull scoreā€ if I’m viewing it transposed. Bass clef is correctly only used in the concert full score. Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax., etc. are similarly misnamed.

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This has been driving me crazy, trying to get bass clef in the full score, treble in the bari part. This simple fix solved the problem, so thanks!

Having said that, this shouldn’t be hard, and your fix, while simple and elegant, isn’t obvious. Not sure how, but it would be nice if Dorico made it easier.

Dorico makes it easy - it’s just the clefs that the users entered manually, trying to find a way to make it work that are causing the troubles.

I solved it by selecting anything in the first bar of the baritone sax, then Edit>Notations>Clef, then pick the clef you want for both Concert and Transposed. Dorico handled the key sigs automatically.

I stumbled on a solution I think may be helpful.

If you go into Setup, select Bari Sax (or any other instrument), click the drop-down carat and then the 3 buttons and select ā€œEdit Instrument Definitionā€¦ā€. Scroll down to ā€œStaves and Clefsā€ and under the Clefs subheading you will see two options…

ā€œClefs for transposing layouts: {dropdown}ā€
ā€œClefs for non-transposing layouts: {dropdown}ā€

The first option (transposing) has treble clef selected. The second (non-transposing) had nothing. I selected Bass Clef on the second option (non-transposing) dropdown and it seemed to do the trick. I am able to switch between transposed and concert scores and it adjusts automatically. Hope this helps.