Even for those musicians who will be doubling on another instrument, I keep their doubled instruments on a separate staff and I just double check myself as I go along to make sure I don’t have them accidentally playing two instruments at once! When I’m first composing a piece from scratch, I like to work from the all-parts-separated document, so that I can see clearly which instrument I have doing what at any given moment.See why it’s helpful to have two documents? To clarify for the uninitiated, a typical formal score has two like instruments of winds and brass sharing a staff (e.g., 2 flutes on one staff), whereas each part itself will have its own individual sheet music part to look at (e.g., Flute I looks at one piece of music while Flute II/Piccolo looks at a separate sheet).One will be the Formal Score document, the other will be the Parts document.You’re writing a work for orchestra: Great! Set up TWO documents.Many of the basic ideas below are pretty general and should have equivalent solutions to be found in the various major notation systems that are out there. My biggest excitement is the clean and elegant creation of parts for my doubling musicians (Flute II/Piccolo and Oboe II/English Horn) you can jump to the bottom of the article to view my advice on working with those specific and potentially tricky parts. Having just completed my first large-ish orchestral composition in a long while, certainly my first of such scores on Notion, and having just finished polishing up each of the twenty individual parts for the work, I thought it might be helpful to share some of the handy work-arounds and tips I’d discovered during the course of it. Out of all of these, though, purely based on my own preferences and work style, I by-and-far prefer the look and feel (and – oh.em.gee – the sound!) of Notion 5. So I’ve never had a cause to worry in the years of my experience working with Finale, Sibelius, MuseScore, and, now, Notion. As with any system I’ve used, some things are clearer than others during the course of writing a composition, depending on the scope and nature of the work, and on the occasions I get stuck, if I can’t find the answer in a manual somewhere, there’s always the Internet and its forums to rummage through for answers. The interface is super clean and (mostly) highly intuitive. As I’ve gotten to know Notion 5 better and better, I’m more and more in love with it.
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