Re: Split Parts

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 22 January 2014 07:06, Orm Finnendahl
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> Hi List,
>
>  I'm taking the plunge to write a pretty big orchestra piece with
> lilypond (contemporary music) and am wondering how to organize the
> parts: There will be sections in the piece where e.g. the first
> violins are split (maybe sometimes only for a couple of bars and up to
> 14 different parts). In the score, the unisono parts should get
> notated only on one staff. For staff systems containing bars with
> divisi strings, each instrument should get its own staff (replicating
> existing unisono bars on all staffs). In the individual parts I'd like
> to have parts with each instrument having only his/her part in it.
>
> Can someone give an advice how to handle this elegantly avoiding to
> fork source files for the note material of score and parts?
>
> As I say, the piece is long (about 45') and for big orchestra (ca. 90
> musicians) and heavy electronics, so I really have to plan carefully
> to avoid a desaster preparing the material. Despite all sorts of unix
> tools like make, git and such this is quite an endeavour for me so any
> advice from experienced lilyponders is appreciated!
>
> Yours,
> Orm
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You might have already done this, but in case you haven’t, I would
work out exactly what I wanted the parts and score to look like, then
get Lilypond to implement that. Partly because when you divide the
First Violins into 14 parts everything will need to be as clear as is
humanly possible, and partly so that you are the master of the
notation and not a computer program.

This is what I would consider doing (there may or probably are better ways):

violinOneSix = { \violinOneUnisonSectionA
\violinOneViolinsThreeToSixSectionB \violinOneUnisonSectionC \etc }

and careful use of

\set Staff.keepAliveInterfaces

I don’t think a violinist wants to see fourteen staves on their part, hehe…

Vaughan