I’m arranging something for the jazz band I teach where pretty much all the saxes double on another woodwind instrument since that other woodwind instrument is their main instrument for some of them. As such, when they switch to their doubles, my Tenor 2 player becomes the lead player on Flute, while Tenor 3 is essentially Flute 2. I also have someone who is only playing flute, so she’d be Flute 3, and then my Tenor 1 player is also playing flute for part of it (and clarinet later on). I don’t want to change what order each staff appears in since it should be laid out as Flute, Alto Sax 1-3, Tenor Sax 1-3, Bari Sax, for the right score order. (Yeah, my front row is a little overloaded compared to a typical big band.) However, when they switch to their doubles, each of the flutes is labeled with the wrong number since Dorico assumes the one at the top would be 1, then 2, and so on.
I’ve changed the part names so that it shows up correctly in their own individual parts, but how can I get it to change the numbering when they switch to their doubles? Basically, in the section where they’re all on doubles, the score order I want to see with the staff labels are:
Flute 3
Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
Alto Sax 3
Clarinet 1
Flute 1
Flute 2
Clarinet 2
Yes, I know that looks convoluted and out of order, but that’s the strengths of each player in the sax section. Tenor 2 is the strongest flute, followed by tenor 3, and so on. The instruments themselves are showing properly just fine, it’s literally just the numbering that I’d like to change.
Also, while I’m at it, is there any way to have a little more control over the bracketing? Because of the doubling, the saxes aren’t always bracketed together in a consistent way. It starts off bracketing the one flute player on her own, then the 3 altos, then the 3 tenors (who are all on flute), then bari. Once the tenors actually switch to tenor, all 7 saxes are bracketed together with the flute player being on her own. Then once they pick up their doubles, the one alto sax is by itself, but the three woodwinds above it and the four woodwinds below it are each all bracketed together. While normally the 5 saxes would be bracketed together, I think 7 is a little much, and I’d prefer to just always have flute separate, then the 3 altos, then the 3 tenors, and then bari separate.
