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MARC SHEPHERD Posted
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Suppose the full score has a pair of flutes on one staff. I want a single part in which the flutes appear in the same book on separate linked staves. (This is sometimes done in opera pit orchestras.) Can Finale do this?

So far, I am not seeing a way. Hypothetically, one would want to add the same staff twice to the same part, with different voicing for each, but it appears the program doesn't allow this.

I could also do it by creating separate part staves that are hidden in the full score, but I am wondering if there is another way besides that.

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PETER THOMSEN Posted
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If I understand you correctly, you have in the score two flute parts displayed in the same staff, Flute 1 in Layer 1, and Flute 2 in Layer 2 - right?

 

I would add an extra flute staff to the score.

You can hide this extra staff in the score.

Copy the Layer 2 notes (= the Flute 2 part) to the extra staff.

Create a linked part that contains both staves.

In the linked part, use the Staff Tool to adjust the layout, in the part only (not in the score).

The secret here is that staff styles can be different between the score and the part.

This means that you can hide the upper staff’s Layer 2 in the part, while Layer 2 is still visible in the score.

Also, staff names can be different between the score and the part (so that the upper staff can be named “Flutes” in the score, but “Flute 1” in the part.

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MARC SHEPHERD Posted
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@Peter ... yes, that is what I am trying to do, and your idea had occurred to me. The drawback is that once you've created the extra flute staff, it is forever separate. Any corrections you make to the Fl 2 part in the full score must be made twice.

So, I was wondering if there is a way around that problem.

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