Hi folks, I have an Oboe 2 part that doubles Oboe d’Amore. Because of the rarity of the Oboe d’Amore, I want to have a duplicate part where the player instead has an Oboe and a Cor Anglais.
What would be the most effective way to make this happen?
You’d need to first add the Cor Anglais into a new Player and then duplicate the music into it.
Then, simply duplicate the original part layout, removing the Oboe d’Amore, and adding the Cor Anglais.
As long as the music is identical I think even the formatting of the part would be identical with no need for tweaking?
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Using the same original Oboe 2 player (who holds an Oboe and an Oboe d’Amore), or would I have to produce a duplicate player holding and Oboe and Cor Anglais?
Hi @hautboisbaryton, if you use instrument changes, it is not possible to hide selectively the oboe amore or the English horn in the parts, if they are assigned to the same player.
So my suggestion is to duplicate the player, put the player into a group, rename the Oboe instrument in Oboe 2 and Ob. 2, change the Oboe d’amore into English horn, copy, in Galley view, all the music from Oboe 2 (the one outside the group) into the other Oboe 2, and the music from Oboe d’amore into English horn. And then uncheck the grouped player from the full score. You can then Propagate the part formatting:
Dorico file example:
extra layout with english horn.dorico (1.5 MB)
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You’d need a duplicate player and instruments (as per @Christian_R’s advice.)
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You can do it without duplicating the Player.
- In Setup mode, duplicate the Layout and change the Layout name.
- Use Clef and Transposition override to change the transposition of the Oboe d’Amore.
- Then for the new part Layout, in Engrave mode select each instrument change to Oboe d’Amore and add custom text in the Properties Panel to indicate Cor Anglais.
Oboe example.dorico (1.3 MB)
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Nice work.