Barlines
This question is more music-related and not at all Musescore related. I'm working on a piece for Oboe and Three English Horns. In my head I picture the Oboe and the first English Horn playing their notes from the same paper (i.e the Oboist reads their notes from the top stave and the English Horn from the bottom). The second and third English Horns would do the same. On the page where you can see all the instruments (like if they were being conducted, the conductor would read that page), should I connect the barlines for the Oboe and the first English Horn, and then do the same for the second and third without connecting the first and second?
Also, tell me what you think of the song!
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In reply to Also, tell me what you think… by Derek Welsman
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Combining different instruments on the same page is quite an odd thing to do at all. Most chamber music (like your quartet) doesn't usually even have a conductor's score. Having said all of this, there is really nothing inherently wrong with any of it. I would connect the staves' bar lines to help the musicians keep their notes straight. I don't know if there is a standard that I'm not aware of, but if I were in the ensemble playing from that music I would appreciate it.
Well done. I did not quite know what to expect from such a combination. I once heard a work of Beethoven for two oboes and one English horn. If you don't mind a subjective impression I had in that it felt English (as in Anglo). I enjoyed it a great deal. It works out formally; there is enough variation in such a short, concise frame. I wonder if it is part of a suite or something of a larger scale. Well crafted. I trust you play double reed?
Two questions: Did the triple dots work in playback as you had hoped? I find playback to come up short of the composer/arranger's intentions, especially with regard to such rhythmic subtleties.
What font did you use? I was disappointed in the sound of the English horns (font). I am working on something with an English horn using the MuseScore defaults and it has a deeper- throated sound. But I could sense well enough what they'd sound like for real.
Very nice flavor.
In reply to Well done. I did not quite… by penne vodka
Actually, I don't play any reed instruments.
I would say that unless you have enough experience playing these instruments to know for certain that asking the musicians to all read from the same score makes sense, please don't. Write the score that way, but then generate the individual parts normally, using File / Parts. You as the composer can work from the full score, so could a conductor if there is one, but the musicians will want their own parts.
In the score, it's kind of up to you about connecting the barlines, but a usual standard is to connect "related" instruments. In this case, sure, it could be oboe by itself, horns together, but I'd personally lean more toward connecting them all.