Changing Which Tracks Are Displayed in a Part

In Composer, a part displays the notes for one or more tracks. A part can be formatted and paginated independently of other parts extracted from the conductor's (entire) score.

When you add a new track to a song, the new track is automatically added to the part you are currently viewing. However, it is not automatically added to any other parts. This is usually what you want. For example, if you add a flute track to the conductor's part, you do not want the flute track to be added to the separate violin part.

However, in some cases you might want to add the track to other parts. For example, you might have a conductor's score with a vocal choir section and instruments. You might want to prepare a separate choir section part for rehearsing the choir separately from the orchestra. If you add another vocal track, such as tenor, you will want that new track to be added to both the conductor's score as well as the choir section's score. If you add the tenor track to the conductor's score first, then when you later view the choir section part, Composer will detect that the tenor track has been recently added to the song. In this case the next time you view the choir section part, Composer will automatically ask you whether you want to add the tenor track to the choir section part.

There may be other reasons that you might want to add a track to a part, or remove a track from a part without actually deleting the track itself.

To add or remove tracks from a part:

1.      Select the part using the Select Part command in the Part menu

2.      Choose the Show and Hide Tracks command in the Part menu.

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Type "qsht" for Quick Show Hide Tracks.

Composer will display a simple Show and Hide Tracks dialog box.

3.      Select and unselect which tracks will be displayed in the part, and click the OK button.

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