On the Horns of a dilemma

[AdrianJHale]

In producing a Conductor’s score, I have chosen to reduce Horns 1 & 2 and 3 & 4. The stave containing Horns 1 & 2 present no issues, however the reduction of Horns 3 & 4 do.
The problem is that the stave containing 3 & 4 result in chords of three notes. It is fairly obvious which is the rogue note as it is a duplication of the same note in the stave containing Horns 1 & 2. Whilst it is easily deleted (and confirmation can be obtained from the Parts scores) it is nevertheless an apparent anomaly. Has anyone come across this before?

[MikeLyons]

Can you describe how you are doing the reduction? Sibelius won't add notes on its own!
It would be helpful if you could post an extract of the score that displays the issue. You can't post sib files here directly, but if you zip them, as long as they are less than 100kb, they will post.

[AdrianJHale]

Thanks for taking the time to respond.
As you might have guessed, I'm an amateur composer and can describe the method I used and will do my best with an image.

[AdrianJHale]

In my original score, my orchestrator stated that the layout of horns should be 1,3,2,4 - don't know if this has any bearing on the problem.
I add another horn and rename it as 1 Horn 2. Select staves for horn 1 and horn 2, go to Note Input and click on Reduce to the renamed stave. Go Home and click on Inspector and click on Parts then go to Layout and select Empy Staves - hide. I then do the same process for horns 3 & 4.

Sample Horns 3&4.jpg (51.9 KiB) Viewed 731 times

Hope this helps.

[AdrianJHale]

It also occasionally produces a greyed out horn in 3&4 which is clearly intended to be for horn 1&2.

Sample - greyed out horn.jpg (68.26 KiB) Viewed 731 times

[MikeLyons]

You are making this waaay too complicated. It's late now, (23:15), but I'll explain tomorrow.

[MikeLyons]

OK.
Start with your full score and add two more horn staves. Label them Horns 1 &2 Horns 3 & 4.
Label the 2nd page staves 1.[return]Hn.[return]2 and 3.[return]Hn.[return]4
Select all of your original horn 1 and copy it onto the Horn 1&2 staff
Select all of your original horn 3 and copy it onto the Hn 3&4 staff.
Select all of your original Hn2 and copy it onto the clipboard. Use Paste into voice to paste it in voice 2 onto the Hn 1 &2 staff
Select all of your original Hn 4 and copy it onto the clipboard. Use Paste into voice to paste it in voice 2 onto the Hn 3 &4 staff.
Either:
a) hide all the music on your original horn staves, then hide the staves in the sore (select, [ctrl]h, [ctrl][shift]h)
or
b) Select all staves except the original horn staves and use focus on staves to show only the selected (use [ctrl]a, followed by [ctrl][click] on each of the four horn staves, then select focus on staves)
or
c) Make a new part. Include all the staves except the four horn staves.

You'll probably have to sort out the formatting whichever way you do it.

If you have the latest version of Ultimate, you have the facility to make a subscore, which might make the whole process easier.

Hopefully, the attached zip file will illustrate.

grouping horns.zip

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[AdrianJHale]

Thanks Mike for all the time and effort you have put in to help me out with this dilemma.
They say that 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks' - well this proves that you can! I'm 77 and still learning and willing to learn. I will try what you suggest tomorrow and let you know how I get on before I produce any more Conductor scores.
Best wishes.

[AdrianJHale]

I can see that your method for voicing works well and it is something that I will consider for the future. Many thanks.

[MikeLyons]

Glad to be of help.

I'm not far behind you at nearly 70!