I am an aspiring music composer and editor, but I have a question that no one has been able to answer thus far.When creating a score, by hand or otherwise, for a piece of music for quartet with a solo cello part, what would be the proper use of flat brackets? Would the brackets cover only the quartet parts or would it include the solo cello part as well?Thanks in advance,JD
if its a solo cello, then it'd be the un-bracketed part, and i believe every other grouping of instruments (1 or more) would be bracketed appropriately.
No single instrument would be bracketed, ever. Brackets are used to enclose groups of instruments. If you've got a quartet (violin 1, violin 2, viola, violoncello) the four instruments would be grouped together. If you were to write the violoncello solo over a piano reduction, you would have the piano (grand) staff braced { together, the violoncello would have no bracket or brace; just a normal barline at the beginning of each system.
