I recently wrote a jazz chart on Dorico Pro 5 in which the piano part was 1 staff with mostly just the chord changes and slash marks. I was asked by a publisher to write out a piano part on a grand staff after the entire chart was finished, which I did. The problem I’m having is when I go to Engrave mode to clean up the part, it’s no longer listed as “Piano” in the layouts but is now “Empty Part”. If I click on it, it has the appearance of a part with the title, but in the upper left where the name of the instrument shows inside a box, it shows “Empty Part instead. It also shows “Tacet” inside a box in the body of the part where there should be staves and notes. How do I get the written out piano part to show up so it can be edited and cleaned up, and/or exported as a pdf file to my desktop?
Welcome to the forum, @Chip_Lewis!
It sounds like the player is not wired up to the layout. If you go to Setup mode and select the piano player (turns bright blue), make sure the checkbox for the Empty Part layout is checked.
If that’s not it, can you post a picture of what Setup mode looks like when the piano player is selected? Or even post your Dorico project here so someone can take a look?
It worked, thanks so much!!!
I emailed you back too soon. When I did what you suggested, the new 2-staff piano part showed up on the score and parts in Write and Engrave modes, but all the new stuff I wrote out for the new grand staff piano part are showing up only in the first 20 bars. From bar 21 it has a grand staff but only the original parts of chord changes, slashes, and rhythmic slashes appear in both the score and parts.
If you look at the score in Write mode, Galley view, is the music there?
Nope. All of the new stuff that I wrote from bar 21 forward has reverted back to the original piano part of slashes and rhythmic slashes. It shows grand staff, but the bass clef is nothing but rests; all the slashes are in the treble clef.
I’m afraid you must have accidentally deleted that music, or maybe hit Undo or something like that. The steps that I suggested – wiring the player up to the layout – would not have changed any music that had already been entered.
Not sure how I did that, but if there’s a way to screw it up there’s no doubt I’ll figure out how to do it. Fortunately, I saved a copy on a flash drive so I can just copy it over to the messed up file. I appreciate your help!