Hi. I’m arranging for a musical which has a section where an actor has a chant with a specific rhythm. It’s not a song on it’s own, just within the dialogue, and I’d like to just have a chart with the rhythm in the rehearsal score for the music director and actor’s rehearsal reference but not have it in the orchestra parts (or even the full score as it won’t be conducted). I can write it in a flow and remove the players from the flow but that leaves a tacet cue with a flow heading in their parts. I think that will be confusing given that the flow won’t be conducted nor will anyone be playing anything and the next flow only has a few players in it making two tacet flows in most parts and I’m concerned they won’t play the flow after that if they’ve only heard one flow play, as it were, from the pit.
Is there a way I can set a flow to only appear in two players (rehearsal piano & vocal) but not leave a tacet sheet in any of the other parts?
Why not cue the actor in everyone’s parts?
Because it’s not really a song or a cue. I would just like there to be a reference to what the rhythm should be for rehearsal purposes.
Apologies if I misused the term cue (I’m aware it has a special meaning in musicals).
My suggestion was to use Dorico’s cue feature to show some of the Actor’s words in the tacet parts. Players will then know how what they are hearing relates to their own parts (which is what cues are used for in my musical world)
Yes, I didn’t mean Dorico’s cues (which I use regularly). But it would in my opinion be more confusing to have any reference to the chant in the player’s parts so was wondering if there was a way to have it in the rehearsal score for when a new actor needs to learn it, but not appear in the parts.
You could add a single open bar as a general pause to the end of the previous number?
I do appreciate your quick reply, comments and help but that is not what I want either. If there’s no way to do it, I can just make a separate project and join the pdf of the two projects together for the vocal book and rehearsal piano book but I’d ideally like to keep it in the one but can’t see how to do it. I just wondered if anyone knew.
Have you tried simply removing the unnecessary Flow from the Layouts?
A Layout that includes a Flow and which a Player is not assigned to displays TACET because it has to represent the Flow somehow. (Edit: I worded that really unclearly, sorry)
A Layout that doesn’t include a Flow should simply display nothing.
Am I wrong?
The flow is not unnecessary. It contains a vocal part. But I don’t want the instruments to see or be aware of the vocal part. It’s not musical and it’s in the midst of a long dialogue section. I don’t want their parts to show Tacet or anything to indicate that there’s a “piece of music”.
I think you’re misunderstanding @DanielMuzMurray 's suggestion.
In Setup mode, if you select all of the instrumental layouts and then uncheck the vocal flow, then those layouts won’t know anything about the flow and nothing will display for it.
Right now you’ve removed the players from the flow, but left the flow in the layout – so the layout shows ‘tacet’ since the players have no music. You need to remove the flow from the layout in order for nothing to show up.
That’s it exactly. Thank you so much.