Re: Information about Parts

[Shane Brandes]

HI Matt,

Welcome to Lilyponding. Your missive reads as though you can wrap your
head around things well enough. Sometimes it is dangerous to think
about things in terms of Finale methods. Of course parts can be
extracted. In this case, parts are a thing of formal structure. My
advice to proceed, and others might have other ways of thinking about
it and accomplishing the same goals, is this: you may write out each
individual part in its own file and use an include command in another
file that contains the total score structure for the piece in
question. Or you can simply enter in the entire part in the whole
score and then cut and paste it into its own part after you are down
constructing the full score. Either way is possible. I prefer the
first as it makes the complications of a multiple part score seem less
obnoxious. Anyway, it is also important not to confuse parts with
voices. The documentation is your friend. Please note what version you
are running as many of us use a variety of versions depending on how
comfortable we are with upgrading beyond the Operating systems default
version of the moment. In any event there are many templates to learn
from and the application Frescobaldi is very valuable for helping to
learn large scale structures.

best of luck,
Shane Brandes

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Matthew James Briggs
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello, I just joined this list because I was searching unsuccessfully for
> information about Lilypond's features for extracting and producing
> individual parts from a score.  Does Lilypond have features akin to Finale's
> linked-parts?
>
> I suspect my searching was unsuccessful since the work "part" is used so
> frequently in the english language.  Any urls to point me in the right
> direction would be great.
>
> Background: composer using Finale since the early 1990's.  In the past
> several years I have learned some code, C#, C++, SQL, tiny bits of bash.  I
> don't know Python yet but it's on my to-do list.
>
> The idea of controlling music notation with the precision of an interpreted
> text language is highly appealing and I plan to learn Lilypond soon (unless
> it has, like, zero support for creating parts).
>
> Thank you!
> Matt
>
> .mjb
>
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