Hello -
I have individual Flute 1 and Flute 2 parts in a score. We’ve decided to combine them onto one part. I copied the Flute 1 down to the Flute 2 using “Paste Special” > “Duplicate to Part Below” which worked beautifully on divisi parts, except all unison parts are now showing double note heads. How do I avoid this? (After I get the Flute 2 part showing the 1 & 2 part, I’ll delete the Flute 1 part and rename the Flute 2 to Flute 1, 2.) Below is an example of the issue.
Thank you.
The usual way to handle this sort of thing in Dorico is condensing – leave the notes entered into separate flute 1 and flute 2 players, and then turn on condensing in the score and let Dorico combine them into a single staff.
Thank you for the reply. I would do that but in this case, we are going to have a combined Flute 1, 2 player part too. If was just going to be a condensed part for the score, I would use the condensing feature.
You can turn on condensing in a part layout as well. You would create a new layout which includes both the flute 1 and flute 2 players, and then turn on condensing in Layout Options.
Here’s a condensed horn part:
You can condense part layouts as well as scores if you want.
If both flutes are playing in unison throughout, just have one and rename the Player Flutes 1&2.
Thanks, I’ll remember that in the future. (I didn’t think about condensing an actual part.) But I’m too far in to this now and have already copied/merged the parts. Any thoughts on how I can remove the double note heads throughout all unison parts? There are a combination of divisi and unison parts throughout the part; it’s not just unison throughout.
Thanks again.
Not sure there is an easy way. You have effectively created unison chords.
(Others may have clever solutions)
Perhaps you could recreate your other flute and explode these unisons onto two instruments again?
Depending on what you’ve done in the meantime, you could try using Undo (Ctrl/Cmd+Z) until you get past the point where you used Duplicate. You could also try looking at one of the autosave files or backup files.
Another thing you could try is selecting everything in that staff and then filtering on Notes in Chords > Top Note or Single Note. Assuming that the first flute never plays lower than the second flute, this should select one note in each unison pair and the upper note in non-unisons – that is, the first flute part – and then you can delete those notes.
You could also do this section by section, if there are distinct unison sections you want to clear up (and leave the non-unisons). In Preferences > Key Commands, you can assign a shortcut key to this filter command, so that you can select unison notes, type your shortcut key to filter, and then delete.
Thank you Janus and asherber. Unison chords…an oxymoron! As smart as Dorico is, you would think that it would recognize unisons and not try to double up note heads on unisons.
Those are good suggestions. I’ve already gone through and manually deleted the duplicate notes. But I’ll remember your ideas for the future. Much appreciated.
There can be legitimate reasons for this notation. For example, in a string part, a unison chord like this can be played as a double stop (on violin, something like a first position D on the G string along with the open D string).
Yes, that is true. But more often than not, at least in my experience, unison passages share note heads. I would have liked the default to be shared note heads THEN, if you want double stops, using the Properties Panel (or some such thing), be able to add them in.
Simple to do, but you need to use two voices…
Clearly when you merged your Flutes you put them in the same voice.
