Try as I might, I’m failing to achieve what I’m looking for on this first page of a score. My aim is to show the staves of every player participating in the piece, with any doublings added below the instrument names (those that I have done so far have been using Shift-X, which I’m not sure is the correct way for various reasons, including the fact that the text also appears in parts).
Ideally, the first twelve staves would show - in order - Piccolo (also Flute 3), Flute 1, Flute 2 (also Alto Flute), Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Cor Anglais, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2 (also Eb Clarinet), Clarinet 3 (also Bass Clarinet), Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Contrabassoon (also Bassoon 3). (I’ve put the complete listing the bottom of this post.)
Having made the first page into a frame, and applied Staff Visibility settings to it, I encountered all sorts of unexpected results. For example, if I tried to show Clarinets 1, 2 and 3 on separate staves (by selecting “show” on those instruments and “hide” for Clarinets 1.2.3) I was left with no clarinet staves at all – and the same goes, mutatis mutandis, for the Bassoons. (I also see that the bassoons are listed in the order 3,1,2, which of course wouldn’t be an issue if I could separate the staves for this page.)
It seems to me that at some point I must have made some settings both in Staff Visibility and also in some of the parameters of Layout Options (and very possibly in some other places as well) which contradict each other, but by now I don’t know how to disentangle the result. I’m also aware that if there are errors in my Condensing settings, any changes made there would very likely affect the whole 100+ pages of the score, which I took a great deal of time in casting off; so, unless I can correct the first page without affecting the rest of the file, it might be better all round if I were to provide the instrumentation list - with its doublings - as a text list in the front matter, and start the score showing only the instruments that play first.
(Just to add to my perplexity, I haven’t yet cracked how to have the percussion staves listed as ‘Percussion’ on the first page only - with instrument names thereafter - though I can live with what’s there as it stands.)
I’d be most grateful if somebody could point out where I went wrong. I’m attaching the first few bars of the first flow of the score (the whole flow is too big to attach):
Gareth Glyn Symphony, 1st flow (section).dorico (1.4 MB)
However, I’m not sure that changing the settings in this excerpt behaves the same as in the full score (for example I was able to get separate clarinet staves from it, whereas I couldn’t in the full score - a clue?), so here’s the whole file as a Dropbox download just in case: Dropbox - Symffoni SGÔR, pob erwydd ar dudalen 1.dorico - Simplify your life [for some bizarre reason, Dropbox has decided to add their slogan ‘Simplify Your Life’ to their links].
For reference, here’s the full listing I’m aiming for, though I’d be happy for non-doubling players to share a staff, viz. Bassoons 1.2, Horns in F 1.2.3.4, Trumpets 2.3, though maybe not Percussion 1.2.3.
Piccolo (also Flute 3)
Flute 1
Flute 2 (also Alto Flute)
Clarinet 1
Clarinet 2 (also Eb Clarinet)
Clarinet 3 (also Bass Clarinet)
Bassoon 1
Bassoon 2
Contrabassoon (also Bassoon 3)
Natural Horn in C
4 Horns in F
Trumpet 1 in Bb (also Piccolo Trumpet)
Trumpet 2 in Bb
Trumpet 3 in Bb
Tenor Trombone 1 (also Euphonium)
Tenor Trombone 2
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion 1
Percussion 2
Percussion 3
Harp
Piano (also Harmonium)
Violins 1
Violins 2
Violas
Cellos
Double Basses
