Creation assistant and parts extraction  

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Creation assistant [Professional] [Notation]

The creation assistant allows you to define the main parameters of a new score. To reach it, select the Creation assistant item in the File menu. The following dialog box appears:

To use it efficiently, follow the steps indicated here:

It has three pages. You can now encode the notes, modify the score and use all the tools you want. This dialog box is simply a fast start used to create a structure for your score.

Part extraction [Professional] [Notation]

When you write a full orchestral score or a score with several instruments, it is often necessary to print the scores for each separate instrument. They are called a part. It is the score given to each member of the orchestra and which contains only what this member personally plays.

Open the Ex076.piz example. Its main view contains a score named My orchestra. Open it :

It contains 19 different staves. To obtain the oboe score, use the selection tool to select the oboe staff. Then, in the Edit menu, select the Extract parts item. The following dialog box appears:

By calling the main view, you may observe that it contains a new score named Oboe:

The extracted part score is now a score in itself, independent of the main score. You can modify its page layout if you want. All the extracted parts remain nevertheless associated to the main score and will be recorded together on the disk. Notice that you can select several staves to extract them together, as for piano and harp, both written on two staves. The two staves are then extracted and placed in a new score.


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