Individual staff labels in score and parts?

Dorico
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Hi together!

I like “edit staff label” very much. It’s much more powerful than in other scoring-apps I know. But in some cases I would prefer different staff labels (instrument names) in score and parts. If I write a score in C I like to write “Bb-trumpet (sounds as written)” in the score and “trumpet in Bb” in the parts. Wouldn’t it be great to have the choice between several names for the same instrument - not only between full name and abbreviation?

Ben

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That’s what this exact option is for. You can set it differently for the parts and the score.

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Alternatively, you can show the LAYOUT name for the Part on the first page of the Part, and dispense with staff labelling, except for instrument changes.

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@pianoleo:

Thank you very much for your quick reply. I didn’t see this possibility, and it looks quite good. But in some cases I prefer to add some extra-text like “sounds as written”, “klingt wie notiert” etc. That’s what I was looking for. With your solution I can omit the transposition in the C-score. This seems to be a good compromise. But nevertheless I would prefer to have a bit more freedom here.

Ben

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@benwiggy

Thank you for your quick reply. I just tried it out, and it works quite fine. I saw that in most cases I don’t need the instrument names in parts. I mixed up instrument names and layout names - sorry for that. And thank you very much.

I just wonder why Dorico does not write the transposition into the layout name automatically. Fiddling the flat-sign into the layout name is sometimes relatively boring…

Ben

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For most instruments you don’t need to state the transposition. Nobody would make an alto sax in any key except Eb, for example. Trumpets are one of the few exceptions.

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Look at my second screenshot above, and note how the second tab shows “Trumpet (B Flat)”. That’s the layout name for that part, and it’s not something that I’ve changed - that’s automatically generated.

Is there a chance that you’ve done something with the Layout Options that means that the instrument name is generated without a transposition, and thus the layout name too?

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I‘m afraid you‘re totally right, pianoleo. I was fiddling around with the layout names before I really understood how things work. It‘s a long way…
Ben