Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.

[Rutger Hofman]

I am thinking of sharing my experiences as a user in this field by 
contributing a tutorial or a practical experiences story (or whatever) 
on this topic. It would make a distinction between:

1) temporary staves
2) divisi allocation over groups of staves

since these are different concepts, and they are handled differently by 
the Lilypond user, although both depend on keepAliveInterfaces.

And I could contribute a bit on techniques to have >2 voices per staff, 
rhythmically homophonic or rhythmically polyphonic, especially in the 
context of divisi staves.

What would be the best venue for this? Lilypond docs? User list? Scores 
of Beauty? If it gets into the Lilypond docs, it is there to "stay 
forever" which would be nice.

One elaborate example of my experiences is found in the score and parts 
of "3 Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck" by Alban Berg, see 
https://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban) (travel to the 
tab [Arrangements and Transcriptions]). One can have a look at e.g. the 
Violins I part, mvt. 1, Bars 396-404; there is a 5-fold divisi which is 
folded into one staff in the full score. Or practically any instrument 
group, for that matter.

Rutger

On 5/28/20 10:33 AM, Lib Lists wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 18:10, Valentin Villenave <valentin@villenave.net> wrote:
> > On 5/27/20, Lib Lists <listslib@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > merge the stems so
> > > that the final result looks like one voice.
> >
> > In that case, what you want clearly is \partcombine (\partCombine since 2.21).
> >
> > If you have more than two voices, then you can always apply another
> > \partCombine on top of the first two voices, or use other tricks to
> > deal with the more complex situations.
>
> I understand. Unfortunately I cannot find a way to use the
> remove-layer technique with \partcombine (see attached file). I'd like
> to hide the top staff while maintaining the staff group between bar
> 19-24 for the difficult passage. Is there a way to achieve this? In
> other words there are four notations that I'd need to achieve for
> divisi: unisono, divisi (a2, a3, etc.) on same voice & same staff,
> divisi on different voices & same staff, divisi on different staves.
>
> > > Finally, adding a \shortInstrumentName in the StaffGroup gives an
> > > error, but the resulting pdf is otherwise correct.
> >
> > instrumentName and shortInstrumentName are both siple property
> > definitions, not variables or functions so the \ is not needed; just
> >       instrumentName = "something".
>
> That worked, thank you!
>
> > Cheers,
> > -- V.