I am writing an arrangement for marching band. On the full score, I want to have a “Low Reeds” line in bass clef. Then, when I create parts (or extract parts in Finale parlance) I want to create separate parts for bari sax and bass clarinet for that line.
Thoughts on the most direct way to do this? I haven’t set up the score yet, so it will be a fresh start. I do this often in my marching band arrangements, so this will be useful going forward.
Feel free to include a link to the Dorico online manual, if so inclined.
Thanks,
Brad
Dorico 6.1 on MacBook Air (2024, 24gB RAM, M3 Processor)
In Dorico, it is best you create the players first, give them their instruments (bariton sax, bass clarinet), and notate each instrument on its own system.
Then, for your special score layout, condense those two low reed instruments/players into one stave.
It is a reverse method of what you might be used to. They get displayed in one stave but technically they are separate instruments, therefore easy to give them their own part layout. No extracting necessary.
Just create multiple layouts for the low reeds instrument, call them bari and bass cl and give the layout the correct clef and transposition override. All this done in Setup.
Thank you. I think I understand what you are saying in regards to layouts. May I come back here with follow up questions? (i.e. I won’t mark this answered just yet)
I recently discovered this as an option to create treble clef euphonium parts from the bass clef euphonium staff. I had been creating two parts in the left panel and copying everything from one line to the other after everything was entered. This is easier and better. Now, if I make changes to one part, I don’t have to remember to update the other.
