Working on creating a full score for a piece with only condensed, and I come up against this:
What I get is this:
There doesn’t seem to be a setting to change the half-beam to a flag, since part continues. Please tell me there is a simple setting somewhere I’m missing. I can think of two workarounds, but I really hate doing that when there is something built in.
You can select the note and right-click Beaming > Make Unbeamed.
Though I believe that currently changes the other part in the score.
Yeah, that changes both. I was hoping this update would bring some help for cues, but I guess it’s a complicated issue.
So far, I’m doing it by creating a single note in the target staff in a new voice, removing and moving rests, and setting the note to cue size. A kludge, but it works.
I suppose one could fake the last note with a resized, suppressed eighth in a second voice.
But that single eighth would then show up in the full score without the rest of the cue and look very confusing there. Assuming this is one of the workarounds you came up with, what is the other? My own workaround usually involves a non-printing dummy player containing an altered copy of the music to be cued. Also, when you write
what do you mean by that exactly? What kind of score is this?
In the band world, in the bad old days (usually published by Boosey and Hawkes) we often got only a condensed version of the composer’s score:
These are terrible for rehearsal, often forcing conductors to ask who has what music at a given bar. As you can see, the labelling is far from comprehensive. Most of those old scores have no full score available. This one has had no full score since its publication in 1933.
Here is my solution, btw…
Just created a new voice in the target measure, added the E, flipped the stem, set its Scale size to “cue”, removed the rest underneath and moved the upper eighth rest to the staff. Those last two are important–you can’t mix those up. Not as many keystrokes as it sounds. If you only have a few of these, it’s not that bad, and it shows up the same in the parts as in the score.
Oh I see, those are cues in the wind-band sense of ‘take this line if instrument X is hungover’. If the cues need to show up in the score anyway, why not just write the entire line in an additional voice and skip the cue functionality altogether?
Well, with cues you only write it once,and you don’t have to keep track of changes.
