Igor Engraver Manual

CHAPTER 2
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the first piece to the Musicians column of the new piece. Note that the violinists
get numbered.
Select all musicians and drag them to the Score layout icon. The result should
look like this:
Double-click the new score layout icon and note that you now have two different
score layouts. As you may imagine, this set-up makes it very easy to create different
versions of the same piece. For example, you may want to create three versions
of a choral piece: one version with piano accompaniment, one with organ
accompaniment and one a cappella. If you ever consider adding a second verse to
the piece, you only have to do that one time, not once per version.
The new layout will not include the music of the first piece. The reason for this is
that you often may want to use existing musician set-ups as templates, but in
most cases, you are probably not interested in moving the music between different
pieces (and you are always able to use copy and paste functions in the layouts
to achieve this).
Note that you are also able to delete the instrument of a musician and replace it
with another instrument. To do this, one must first delete that musician from all
score and part layouts. After this is done, one can change the instrument and
then replace the musician in the layouts from which the they were removed.
That way, the same music is played by the new instrument (This could become
very helpful when transposing from one instrument to another. For example:
from A clarinet to Bb clarinet).