How to create vocal score reduction

• Jan 17, 2025 - 13:35

Hi fellow MuseScore users, I'm hoping someone can help me out!
I'm writing a score for orchestra (brass, percussion, piano and strings) and choir. For rehearsal with the choir i want to have a vocal score, with only the choir parts and where the orchestra parts are reduced to a piano part.
Is there any function within the program that helps me create such a reduction? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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You will have to compose the piano part. There is no automatic tool to create such: WAAAY beyond the current abilities of AI.

Once it is created, you can hide it (to present the full orchestra score) or display it and hide the orchestra staves (for the choir practice score) as you please.

In reply to by bobjp

Sure, if it's a relatively simple case of imploding two or three instruments. But OP described an orchestra. It's going to take explicit human intervention (or more capable AI than exists today) to choose this note versus that note (or "these notes" versus "those"). The choices are likely to change from one measure to the next. Assuming that "orchestra" is a valid description of the score in question, "programming" will not suffice.

However, I note now that OP describes one of the instruments in the orchestra as "piano". If that's the case, it may be as simple as hiding the other instruments of the "orchestra". If this turns out to be the case, the "programming" has already been done. :-)

In reply to by bobjp

I meant that that AI could not compose his piano reduction. A human being could. A program, whether plugin or AI, could not. You could certainly program a plug-in to automatically select a certain subset of notes. But I doubt that any automatically selected (whether AI or plug-in) subset of the notes from the orchestra would be even a mediocre piano reduction. Other than simply choosing the existing piano part ... and even that might not be better than mediocre.

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