I think this sounds like a use case for a long text preface explaining what is
to be performed in what order and why, just notating everything on a treble
clef and doing manual octavations in the midi file. Maybe writing a reminding
1S,2B: or such (not sure I got it completely right from your explanation) in
front of each stanza of text. I don’t think the baritone will be too confused.
> 12 nov. 2023 kl. 10:31 skrev N. Andrew Walsh <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com>:
>
>
> Hi List,
>
> sigh … here we go again. I apologize in advance for my client, a hobbyist
> composer who thinks entirely in terms of cutting and pasting, moving things
> around manually, and not in terms of how to notate anything clearly. Here
> goes:
>
> He has a song for soprano, baritone, and piano. The song has four verses,
> alternating between the two voices (the baritone, weirdly, needs to read a
> treble clef, so I'm using treble_8 for him). However, he wants to repeat the
> entire song (ie, enclose the four verses in a '\repeat volta {}' expression),
> *but* he wants the voices to alternate verses, and the second time through to
> sing the text in English (first time through is in German; he's in his
> "Schubert phase."). He wants both voices on a single line.
>
> So I *could* notate the baritone in the wrong octave and just use the same
> music for both repeats, but that still leaves me the problem of what to do
> with the text. And I don't see a good way to do this without having a lot of
> explanatory text for each verse. This also leaves me the problem of how this
> is supposed to look in the parts.
>
> Do any of you have suggestions for how I might format this so there isn't a
> lot of explanatory text cluttering up the score?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> N. Andrew Walsh, PhD, Dr. phil.
> Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler | Composer, Musicologist
> er/ihn/ihm/sein | he/him/his
> Berlin
