When I arrange for bigband, I sometimes would like to name the staves of the reed section “reed 1”, “reed 2” and so on because each player holds doublings.(like e.g. Alto Sax & Flute)
Is this already possible?
This is indeed possible.
When you create a player (alto sax, let’s say), you can then add flute to that player. (In Setup mode - click the little thing to the left of the player name.)
The player becomes “alto saxophone & flute.”
You can rename the player by right-clicking on the “alto sax & flute” name and selecting Rename.
Hope this helps!
Jim
Jim, thank you very much for your answer. But for me, this doesn’t change the staff label of the full score. It is always labeled according to the instrument that is firstly played in the flow… 
… is not ideal because then when you switch back to that instrument it’ll say “To Reed 1” rather than “To Flute” (which can of course be overruled on a case-by-case basis).
Hmm . . . that’s interesting. Learn more every day!
If I have understood Dorico’s way of working correctly, it is currently not possible to give names independently. Also, in my opinion, the naming behavior in the scores is not correct for players with multiple instruments.
For example, if a musician plays different mallets and I summarize them in one line with instrument changes in the score, the instrument name changes on each page. The conductor could lose his overview if the glockenspiel and the xylophone are labelled two pages further on. Interestingly enough, in the voice excerpt, mallet is correctly output as the voice. In my opinion, an improvement would be urgently needed here.
hi, dorico !
i’m wondering if any developments have been in regard to naming staves . . . i’ve added a treble staff on my piano part into which i have pasted the vocal part . . . is it possible to rename the top staff accordingly ?
if not, how can i combine a vocal part and a piano part on the same layout (?) part (?) (not sure the correct terminology . . . still trying to figure out ‘flow’ after 2 years !) i’m looking for a way to have the piano part on the bottom and the vocal on the top .
thanks !
holly
In Setup, just add a vocal player and a piano player. Both will appear in the Full Score Layout and each will have their own label.
(There’s no need to add a stave to a piano)
Don’t worry about it. A flow is just a chunk of music. A symphony may have four movements, so there might be four flows. A song book might have a flow for each song. Many scores just have one flow.
thanks, janus . . . does this mean it’s not possible to combine 2 parts, then ? what if there were more than 2 parts in the full score and i just wanted to create a part for a combination of any two ? does this question make sense ?
cheers . . .
holly
You can show any number of players in any layout.
See
Not really… but let me try.
Your full score contains all the instruments (players) in your piece.
You can have different layouts that only include a subset of those (eg you can show a vocal score for the chorus in Beethoven 9) - and by default every Player will get their own dedicated part (in a layout)
You can have as many different combinations as you want in each layout and they all use the same notes as the full score.