piano reduction

• Jun 26, 2019 - 07:32

Is there a way to create a piano reduction for an SATB a cappella choral score?

Thanks.

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• Jun 26, 2019 - 13:19

Thanks for the tip. I'm wondering how you could use this to create a piano reduction. With an SATB piece would you have to make a copy of all the staves so it was basically SATBSATB and then implode the second set of staves into two staves and then turn those two parts into a piano part somehow? Or maybe instead copy the SATB parts into a separate document, implode them into two staves and then copy those into a piano part added to the original SATB music?

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• Nov 22, 2023 - 15:50

I tried it this way...a tiny bit convoluted.
Select all of the music for both the soprano and alto parts and copy them down into the Treble staff of the Piano Reduction. Then I highlighted [selected] all of the Piano Reduction measures, Tools/ Implode. This action reduced the Sop / Alto part onto the Treble staff of the Piano Reduction.

Select all of the Tenor part measures and copy them to the Bass clef of the Piano Reduction. [I initially tried copying the Tenor / Bass parts together to the Piano Reduction Bass clef - but it didn't work.]
Then I went to Edit/ Instruments and added a Vocal Bass line; moved it down in the list to the bottom [below the reduction] and Chose OK.
Then I copied the Bass part from the vocal score to the Bass part below the Reduction.
Then I highlighted [selected] the Bass staff of the Reduction and the Bass staff that I added, and used the Tools/ Implode function. This combined the Tenor part and the Bass part onto the Bass staff of the Reduction.
Then I went back to the Edit/ Instruments menu and removed the bottom Bass part.

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