Handbells “Bells Used” staves
Obviously no. But give an illustration and I’m sure people will tell you how to implement. You have to help people out a bit with detail to get assistance.
There are a few threads here if you search. This one could help a little.
And this has a way of doing it.
I think this is Daniel’s latest reference to it
Thanks, Andro.
Rephrased:
“Bells Used” staves appear at the beginning of Handbell Choir music to show all of the pitches that are employed in the piece. What is the best way to create these staves and garner the pitches/bells that will be needed to perform the piece onto these staves?
This might be of interest.
Jesper
I just use my copy of Finale, run the plug in, then import the results into a new flow in Dorico.
Exactly my procedure as well. Finale has/had a plug-in for this, which worked wonderfully well, and would not only “count” the bells/chimes needed, but also automatically make the chart seen above (including “handbells used” etc.). Hopefully someone smarter than me will come up with a Dorico version of this at some point.
Steven, that’s beautiful! Created in Dorico, or run through Finale??
I’m a Finale refugee, so can use the work-around cited in this string (thank you!), but was hoping I’d missed an automatic function, (or at least semi-automatic one — viewing “notes used” on a keyboard is a good start; thanks for that idea, too!), for this purpose in Dorico.
The Finale workaround isn’t difficult, but it is tedious and must be the last thing you do. You have to export mxml from Dorico, import into Finale, make sure everything imported correctly, run the plug-in, export the mxml from Finale, import into a new Flow, move that Flow to the beginning, then pretty it up in Engrave Mode. If you make changes to the music, you have to do that all over again.
Hence, why we need our own script or plug-in. A better option would be if the dev team gives us a true scripting option using Lua or some other scripting language with hooks into most or all options in Dorico, then host a page of user-created scripts for download. Most of our issues would disappear almost overnight.
The example I posted was actually a screenshot of a PDF of a published work. I forget which one, but I found it on the internet. I don’t know what software was used to create it, or even if it was done manually.
It would be a nice feature to have for handbells (as well as some other instances), Though it may be a clunky workaround, but I expect one could make an extra flow that would show bells used (or a separate file imported as a graphic slice in its own frame.
As @Janus showed above, you could get an “inventory” of the bells used by looking at the piano keyboard in properties to see which bells were used.— Jim
I’m not sure if this is still a “thing” but, when I was an undergraduate, taking voice and singing in university choral ensembles, both choral and solo voice works had ranges printed for singers showing low and high notes in that order. Being retired, I don’t purchase vocal scores presently so not sure if that is ever done these days…
I have seen that too. And occasionally on solo charts with backing tracks that were available.
For handbells it is a normal thing since quite often it is not necessary to have the entire set out on the table.
@jaskarbong it most certainly is handy with handbells. Being able to judiciously select the bells used always helped my volunteer ringers to feel more comfortable. It apparently kept them from thinking they were missing notes, for the other bells on the table, when the previous DOM put the entire set out prior to rehearsal.
With vocalists, particularly those in training or just becoming competent, having the range helps find music that they can easily sing as well as those pieces that cause them to stretch their comfort zone a half step or two.