Combining parts

• Dec 9, 2017 - 20:15

I have a Soprano and Alto part written into two separate staffs.
For printing the score I would like to combine them into one staff.
Is there a way to do this by some variation of cut and paste?

Most of the time they have same rythm and will combine into chords. The sections needing two voices I can do by hand.


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Not sure what's the fastest way without seeing the score:

You could change the voice of alto to voice 2, then deselecting voice 1 in the selection filter, then cut and paste to the staff of Soprano, selecting the notes, they have the same rhythm as voice 1 and changing them to voice 1 (when you want to have them as a chord in a same voice).

For the notes with the same rhythm in booth instruments you can also use the implode tool (without exchanging the voice before); for the notes, where the rhythm differs, you need a procedure as described.

If your fine with chords where possible then use implode for those sections. For the differing rhythms I would exchange voice 1 and 2 on the alto part, then use the section filter and copy voice 2 only, paste to the soprano, then remember to put the selection filter back to all. If there are measures with mixed chords and different rhythms you will need to do some manual adjusting since you must implode complete measures.

I don't know if there are other instruments involved. If so, you can put this combined staff on its own staff and hide it in the score, then extract it as a part so you can print it without the rest of the score if that is you goal. If you only want this printed with all the rest of the scores, you can go into instruments and mark the Soprano and alto parts as invisible. Parts adds a lot of versatility if you want to print certain instruments in one situation and other instruments in another situation. You can extract as many or as few parts as you like to a part so there is a complete score with whatever staves are necessary, and whatever subset you want together in a "part" that may actually be a complete score. This will lead to a much larger file, but if your score is complete, you can save the extracted parts in their own files, then delete the parts from the main score if needed, mostly because editing may become slow.

In reply to by mike320

I al not sure what you mean by the "implode tool".
changing to voice 2 and removing voice 1 in the filter worked just fine. (After checking that all notes have stem direction set to Auto).

I end up with two voices having opposite stem direction, which is just fine, though the original score have them like chords.

I would create and extra part in your Soprano part, let's call it Soprano II. Now that you have two parts. Press select all, copy the alto parts and paste it in your Soprano II part.

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