I have a 16th-century instrumental work, for which I’m using an incipit in the score to show the original clefs etc.
However, in the parts, this creates a confusing and unnecessary extra bar at the start of the piece.
Anyone have any clever ideas for hiding it?
I tried something with two instruments (the second one with the incipit not showing in the part) but it’s a bit convoluted!
Score with instrument change, part without:
Hidden incipit in part.dorico (484,9 Ko)
Edit: actually doable with only one instrument:
Hidden incipt 2.dorico (480,5 Ko)
Nice question.
One idea: you could try putting the Incipit in Flow 2.
LOTS of adjustments needed to get this neat.
Here’s the file.
Flow 2 for Incipit.dorico (896.8 KB)
I’m trying to work out what it is you’ve done here…!
For the score Layout: clef override > Soprano clef
For the part : clef override > Invisible clef
So, in the part, with hidden TS, removed rest, invisible barline[1] and invisible clef, the first bar looks like this:
Then, horizontal spacing. However I had to set this in order to push the second bar that far to the left (and I don’t know if it can be a problem elsewhere)
tick barline with -0.5/-0.5 ↩︎
TBH, I think individual players may also benefit from knowing the original clef, so I normally like to include the incipit in the parts. For experienced players it’s useful to know what role they have in the texture.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does the original clef inform this?
For example, when playing viola, you mostly read alto clef, but you might actually be doubling a tenor part, originally written in tenor clef.
As I do frequently - but (to me) the original clef is irrelevant…
(I don’t want to argue the point. Clearly I have been missing something important for decades)
I must admit it doesn’t make much difference knowing the original clef when performing the music. You may hear, or know already (or don’t care), that you play a tenor part. The original clef is not indispensable.
I sometimes play middle voices on cello piccolo, preferably in tenor clef (I may use Dorico to whip up the appropriate transcription), but I always like to know whether I’m actually doing an Altus for example. Still, nice to know, but not absolutely necessary.
