Treating Multiple Parts as One (File)

You can treat multiple instruments as one by defining a “metapart.” Metaparts don't appear in the score. Instead, they route events to other parts or metaparts according to which voices they are in. The from-voice and to-voice settings tell FOMUS how to do this. In the example below, events belonging to voice 1 in the ‘vla’ metapart are routed to voice 1 of ‘vla1’, events in voice 2 are routed to ‘vla2’ and events in voice 3 are routed to ‘vla3’. This is done after one of the three voices (1, 2 or 3) has been chosen for each note. Defining the ‘vla’ metapart this way allows the events for the three viola parts to be entered as chords instead of as separate melodic lines.

// parts part <id vla1, inst viola> part <id vla2, inst viola> part <id vla3, inst viola> // metaparts metapart <id vla, parts (<from-voice 1, to-voice 1, part vla1> <from-voice 2, to-voice 1, part vla2> <from-voice 3, to-voice 1, part vla3>)> // events part vla voice (1 2 3) dur 0.25 time 0.0 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 0.25 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 0.5 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 0.75 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 1.0 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 1.25 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 1.5 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 1.75 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 2.0 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 2.25 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 2.5 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 2.75 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 3.0 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 3.25 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 3.5 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 3.75 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 4.0 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 4.25 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 4.5 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 4.75 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 5.0 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 5.25 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 5.5 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 5.75 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 6.0 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 6.25 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ; time 6.5 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 6.75 pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; pitch 66 ; time 7.0 pitch 60 ; pitch 62 ; pitch 64 ; time 7.25 pitch 61 ; pitch 63 ; pitch 65 ;

Figure 6.74: Viola Trio Metapart

6.13 Treating Multiple Parts as One

6.13.1 Metapart Example