Dean, you are SO going to love Staff Styles! Yes to everything. Read
the manual, learn it, love it, live it.
DON'T change key sigs, change the transposition with a staff style.
Christopher
On Tue Jul 6, at TuesdayJul 6 12:35 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Ryan ... thanks for the info .... I'm still confused about (BTW, I
am using key sigs) changing key sigs in the middle of the stream
for one part only in the score. Does Staff Style allow me to go
back and forth between the oboe and E.H. at will, for a given
number of measures, without effecting the rest of the score? Sorry
I'm ignorant on this, I've just never had to do it before ...
Dean
On Jul 5, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Ryan wrote:
At the end of the Oboe passage, I would put "to English Horn." If
you're
using key signatures, I would personally prefer to see the key
change right
there, as well as staff name change in the score. I do this with a
Staff
Style. At the beginning of the English Horn passage, I would put
"English
Horn." Same process for returning to Oboe.
If the piece is has multiple movements, it would be a good idea to
label the
instrument at its first entrance, even if there wasn't a change in
between
movements.
On the part, all the information that you put into the score
should be
there, as well as probably an indication at the top of each left
hand page
after a page turn. It could save time in rehearsal because the player
wouldn't have to leaf backwards to find what instrument they're on
if the
conductor starts rehearsing mid-movement.
If you're not using key signatures, the transposition still happens
normally. The change is just a little less-obvious, thus the need for
clearly labeling the entrances.
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Dean M. Estabrook
<d.e...@comcast.net>wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:58 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 4:14 PM -0700 7/5/10, Ryan wrote:
What's the best way to label a woodwind part that doubles?
Piccolo & 3rd Flute
or
Piccolo/3rd Flute
or
Piccolo (also 3rd Flute)
Does the top one imply that two players are needed? Does the
middle one
imply that one of the instruments is optional? (i.e. If you
don't have a
piccolo, you can play it on flute).
Interesting. I wouldn't have drawn the distincions you have,
but I think
you're right about them. The second one looks to me like the
most common
format, and no, I wouldn't read it as saying that one instrument is
optional. If that's actually the case, you should say so:
Piccolo/optional
3rd Flute.
Is there another way to label that would be better?
Not that I can think of at the moment. Of course I would put
3rd Flute
first in order unless the part is mostly piccolo. (Kind of like
ingredients
on food labels!)
John
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College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
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