combining staves to grand staff

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JMorris
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Post by JMorris » Sun Oct 25, 2020 12:42 pm

Hi -- Will Sibelius combine separate staves (for instance, the four parts of a string quartet) into a single, playable piano part on the grand staff? Or at least, can I get the four parts combined as a four-voice grand staff display? If so, could someone walk me through it? Thanks!


MikeLyons
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Post by MikeLyons » Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:13 pm

Create a grand staff (Piano?) in the same score as your quartet parts.
1. Select all the music on the 1st part (triple click the staff) and copy it onto the top staff of the grand staff
2. Select all the music on the 2nd part and copy it ([ctrl]c) then use Paste into Voice (on the HOme tab) to paste it onto the same staff
3, Select sall the music in the third part and paste it onto the bass staff of the grand staff
4. repeat step 2 with the 4th part, copying it into voice 2 on the bass staff.

If you've done it right, all the parts will be in the correct voices. You may have to tidy up any duplicated rests.
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JMorris
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Post by JMorris » Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:30 pm

Thank you, Mike!

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Post by JMorris » Tue Oct 27, 2020 2:55 pm

This worked fine, and I discovered another step to take that really helps: Once all four parts are combined on the piano staff, you can use Renotate Performance to get rid of almost all the redundancies and mispositionings.

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