Polka with Trio for Orchestra (Dorico 5 + Noteperformer 4). At least, I think it's a polka?

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Enjoy! And thanks for listening!

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Hi Pete,
I like it. It’s a lively piece with a satisfying (dare I say “cute”) ending. Are you only using the built-in sounds of Noteperformer, or are there other libraries involved? Good work!
Mike

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Hi!
I really like the piece! :slight_smile:

In M36 I would keep Violin 1 in the upper octave for one note…
And I have to admit I don’t quite understand what’s going on at the transition to the Trio section: There seems to be some form of half-bar that’s only 2 beats long, but no indication of any change to see. And the whole Trio section does feel like the strong beat is on beat 2 instead of beat 1, which is kinda strange. Maybe something went wrong in this transition from the second section to the Trio?

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Hi @MikeInBoston,
Thank you. “Cute” is fine :slight_smile:
This is plain Noteperformer out of the box. Any articulations or what have you are visible in the score.

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Hi @Estigy,
Thank you.
There’s a baroque idiom in cadences that drops an octave after the leading note. It gives an extra oomph. That’s what I was aiming for here, but you may be right to go for the natural line. I’ll play around with your suggestion.

The idea is a two-beat upbeat. So the final bar of the main section is split in two.
I’m not sure if that’s the best way to notate it. The trio should probably be in a separate flow. But then there’s no way to get Dorico to play back from the beginning of the piece when the trio ends.
I think I saw on the forum that @janus has suggested to use Dorico’s coda feature for trio sections, because that’s the only way to get the playback to start at the beginning again while having a proper visual separation between the main section and the trio. But if there is an actual coda, as in this piece, that doesn’t work.
So I’m really not sure what to do in this case.

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I see what you mean, but the bar is not “split in two”, otherwise I would see two bars with length of 2/4 each. But the last bar of the second section (bar 47) is a full bar with 4 quarters in it, and the next bar is only 2 quarters long. That’s what confuses me there.
And: I can’t “feel” the upbeat. To me, beat 1 of bar 48 is the first beat of a 4 beat structure, and I struggle because what I see (upbeat) is not what I hear (downbeat). But this may just be because of Noteperformer, and real musicians would put more weight on what you notated as the downbeat :wink:

Yes, using the Coda feature gives you a nice horizontal separation between the last bar of section 2 and the first bar of the Trio section. I use it for marches all the time. Go for it! :slight_smile:

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I missed that! You’re right. I think at some stage I added the extra two beats for the general pause.

I see what you’re saying. Now I’m not sure any more. I mean, you could say that about the first section too, come to think of it.

But, and this is a real Dorico question, doing it this way means the first section can’t have a proper coda anymore, is that not so?