When re-writing a score...

[mound]

I'm in the "away from the piano" prep stages of Bach's Sinfonia #9.. I just re-wrote the score as 3 seperate voices while listening to a recording of it over and over.. When I finished I thought to myself "was I supposed to seperate each voice on a seperate sheet of paper or just on seperate staves?"

I wrote all 3 voices vertically in line on the same sheet, each on a seperate staff.. but the goal is to write proper fingering in and then learn each voice HS.... so. I dunno, suddenly I felt like I should have used seperate sheets of paper, and put one voice on one piece of paper..  I dunno, this probably doesn't matter as long as there is space between each voice right?

-Paul

[bernhard]

Yes, write all the voices in the same sheet of paper on 3 staves. You want - as you play each single voice - to be aware of its realtionship to the other two voices. At a later stage you wiill be playing one (or two) of the voices and in your mind hearing the missing voices - that is, you play one, but you read the three. But this will come later. For the moment just concentrate on on evoice, but be aware the that ohters are there. This is similar to an accompanist whose score had the piano part, but also the soloist part - which the accompanist does not play, but of which he must be aware.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[mound]

Thanks Bernard! I guess I did it right.. I tried my best to line everything up.. I'm not used to "writing" notes on a score though.. Yeah I should probably get a copy of Finale or something, but I stare at a computer screen too much as it is..

-Paul

[mosis]

Finale is a great tool. I still have to install it, though.

Paul, do you think that you could scan how you wrote out the scores? I don't quite understand how you can use just three staves. Sometimes there is one voice in both the treble and bass clef. Wouldn't you need 3 Grand Staves to accurately represent the voices?

[mound]

I'm going to re-do it actually (it took me just over half an hour) - because I wrote each voice before moving to the next, and the result are three voices that do not line up properly vertically! ack.. live and learn.. this time I'll do it beat by beat.. Not sure which is better, I did find myself singing the voice to myself as I wrote it one voice at a time.. we'll see..

yeah, I'll scan a chunk of it when I'm done..  there is only one spot where the middle voice dips into the lower voice's space.. otherwise the top and middle are entirely in the treble cleff.. I just used three rows on the staff paper, labeled with two treble clefs and one bass cleff.

-Paul