Transpose A, Bb, C clarinet part for musicians who only have one clarinet

[tomaeto]

I’m transcribing a classical piece that has an A, Bb and C clarinet part for a single player in it. From the Setup > Layouts sidebar, I know that I can change the transposition for the entire part. However, is it also possible to create a layout for clarinet players who only have a Bb clarinet or a Bb and A clarinet (in which case the C clarinet part would default to the Bb clarinet)?

To clarify, optimally I’d like to keep the original version of the score that has all the transposed sections in it, but also include a transposed version.

[Janus]

I would create a two players. One holds three clarinets (A, Bb and C) the other holds just on Bb.
Don’t show the second player in the Full Score.

You can create a temporary layout including both, and simply copy the notes from the one to the other (no need to do fancy transpositions).

[MarcLarcher]

You could create a layout with the clarinet, and apply a Clef and Transposition override for this to be adapted to another kind of clarinet.

[tomaeto]

Ah, I didn’t realize the transposition overrides work on a per-instrument basis. Thanks!

Although the change instructions remain, I saw that I can remove the instrument change warning in the layout options. For the instrument labels themselves I suppose I can set the scale to 0 or something.

[tomaeto]

This might be the easiest solution. I’ll fiddle with it, thanks.

[k_b]

Felix, once you (in Galley View) have moved the music from clarinet A and Clarinet C into the Bb clarinet, delete both A and C clarinet from the Player (that’s done in Setup Mode).
There won’t be any disturbing instrument change labels left.

[rkrentzman]

Careful. Sometimes C parts lie better on the Clarinet in A.

[tomaeto]

Dorico 6.2.10 introduced the ability to hide instrument change labels. Without having to resort to hidden players in the score layout, I found a way to create a transposed layout that transposes different sections of music written for C clarinet to both A and Bb through the following steps:

1. Add two C clarinets to a player in Setup mode;

   

2. Write sections to be transposed to an A clarinet in one, to a Bb clarinet in the other C clarinet staff (in Galley view);

   

3. Add a transposition override that transposes the corresponding C clarinet staff to A and the other to Bb clarinet.

   

4. Hide the redundant instrument change labels in Engrave mode.

   

TranspositionOverrides2.dorico (1.6 MB)

Similarly, this also solves the problem of transposing music written for multiple different clarinets into one clarinet by hiding all the redundant “To clarinet in Bb” instrument change labels.

I hope this solution is useful to others, too