Bracket and Barline Change for Entire Piece

I’m working on a multi-movement piece, the ensemble for which includes a wind quintet—flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon—that I’d like to be bracketed together. I’m able to put the instruments in the correct order and extend the bracket to include the quintet, but the new bracket disappears at the end of the flow. Is there a way to set up a bracket/barline change that extends to the end of the piece rather than the end of the flow?

Try changing this to small ensemble in Layout options.
You might need to remove your bracket change.
Jesper

That sort of works, but it ends up beaming other instruments that I don’t want beamed together. (It beamed the percussion with the strings.)

I wonder why your original bracket change disappeared at the end of the flow in the first place. Care to share the file?

Jesper.

Bracket and barline changes last until the end of the current flow only. You can’t make them extend across flows.

Set Layout Options to be as close to what you want as possible, and use player groups in Setup mode to influence default bracket groups. Then, you can use bracket and barline changes as “local overrides”.

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I tried to use player groups, and while it put a bracket along the page margin, it didn’t seem to influence the beaming. Is this working as it should? Thanks.

Do you mind uploading a project?

Brackets shouldn’t affect how notes are beamed together, so yes you’ll be best if sharing a project (or cut-down duplicate thereof) that demonstrates the issue.

I think Chris is meaning something else with beaming: bracketing.
@ChrisM
You will have to make the manual bracketing change at the beginning of each of your flows.

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Here’s a sample of what I’m working on. Flows from The Way of the Cross.dorico (2.7 MB)

I’d like the wind quintet to always be bracketed together. (And sorry for the misunderstanding—I do mean brackets, not beams.) I can insert a manual bracket change at the beginning of each flow, but I’m hoping there’s a more efficient way of doing this. I’ve tried to create a player group, but this puts a text bracket to the left of the group (which I don’t particularly want) without actually bracketing the instruments together.

Thanks for the assistance, by the way.

You could try moving your Horn to the Woodwind Family (Library>Instruments….)?

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