Hello to all and happy New Year!
I’m starting a rather big full score project and it’s the first time I’ll be doing it in Dorico. I have some doubts about how to organize it.
Regarding the woodwinds, especially those where usually the two parts are written on the same staff, example: Flute 1 & 2, Oboe 1 & 2. I think it would be better to incorporate both single players and then condense them, right? Or is it better to add a single player and then a section one? The problem I have with the first case is that, if from the beginning I condense the two players, example Flute 1 & 2, I can’t write on the staff. I have to uncompress it first.
How can I incorporate a “divisi a trè” in the viola section on three different staves and then leave one when needed?
Thanks!
Probably better to use 2 single players and condense. Remember that galley view doesn’t show condensing, so you can always input notes there even if the players are condensed in page view. (Personally, I always do all my note input in galley view, because I don’t want to be bothered with things moving around on the page as I go.)
This sounds like a pretty normal divisi use case. Make sure you add your viola as a section player, and see the instructions here:
When you’re at the note entry stage, don’t turn Condensing on. Then you can enter the notes in Page View (if you wish).
Enter each Flute and Oboe on a separate staff. Then, when you’ve got all the music in, you can turn on Condensing, and turn your attention to the layout.
My approach has been to have a full score layout called Working Layout (all instruments including any piano reduction, concert pitch, no condensing, never printed) and what I call a Conductor’s Layout (transposed parts, condensed, and formatted for printing). I never have both available for view at the same time (no using tabs) and spend most of my initial work in the Working Layout.
Sorry, still a bit hungover from the New Year’s party.
The project is for sheet music publishing. I thought the best approach would be as you suggest, but having all the staves uncondensed at the beginning will practically double the size of the full score and I’ll only know what it looks like at the end.
That’s one way to do it, I’d just like to have a better idea of what the score looks like as I’m making it.
Yes, I know.
But I’m trying it out right now with the flute parts. I write the two parts separately, without condensing, and then when I want to condense them to see how it looks, Dorico leaves them separate.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
If you create a separate “working layout” as @Derrek suggests, you can make the page size taller, to make more room for the uncondensed staves, while keeping the horizontal width the same as the condensed layout.
In Notation Options > Condensing, you can either select “Allow unlimited pitch crossing”, or you can select “Limit pitch crossing” and change the maximum number of pitch crossings (would need to be >= 4 for this one measure).
Thanks guys for all the info, I think once things are fine-tuned I’ll be able to continue without interruptions.
Now I’m having problems with the divisis, as asherber told me in the second post, but the divisis are contracted automatically and I need it to be on demand, I’m sure it should be possible, right?
