Re: Parts with differing volta brackets

[Martin Neubauer]

On 08/12/2020 14:56, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
>> If anyone has a more compelling case, I would like to hear it.
> 
> I’m a modern composer. I want to write a four-measure piece for four 
> instruments:
>    Instrument 1: plays mm1-3 in tempo, then repeats m4 until the others catch 
> up;
>    Instrument 2: plays mm1-2 in tempo, then repeats m3 until Intruments 3&4 
> catch up, then plays m4 with everyone
>    Instrument 3: plays m1 in tempo, then repeats m2 until Instrument 4 
> catches up, then plays m3-4 with everyone
>    Instrument 4: repeats m1 until they feel like going on, then plays m2-4 
> with everyone.
> 
> How would you suggest handling that in a single score?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
Hi Kieren,

I can't do a mock-up right now (not at home right now), but I would try
moving the bar line engraver to the staff level and add some verbal
instructions for the performers. (Or quote mm1-2 of Instrument 4 in a
smaller kind-of-ossia staff in the single part for Instrument 3 and do
similar quotes for Instruments 1&2. Then one could get away with a
single "repeat ad lib" in Instrument 4's part as verbal instruction.)

All the best,
Martin