User manual

Concert vs. transposed pitch
Layouts in Dorico Elements can use concert or transposed pitch. This affects the pitches and key
signatures on staves belonging to transposing instruments.
When music is in concert pitch, all notes are written as they sound. This means that players with
transposing instruments reading music in concert pitch must transpose the music themselves.
For example, if a clarinet in B♭ reads a C in concert pitch, they must play the note D on their
instrument to produce the sounding note C.
When music is in transposed pitch, the notes written are the ones each instrument must play in
order to produce the desired sounding pitch. For example, if a clarinet in B♭ reads a D in
transposed pitch, the pitch that sounds from the instrument is C.
Transposing scores and parts also transpose key signatures according to the transposition of the
instrument.
RELATED LINKS
Transposing instruments on page 83
Transposing key signatures alongside selections on page 474
Enharmonic equivalent key signatures on page 475
Sorting layouts
You can sort selected layouts in the Layouts panel.
PROCEDURE
1. Click and drag a layout card to a different position in the panel.
An insertion line indicates where the players will be positioned.
2. Release the mouse button.
RESULT
The layout is inserted at the selected position.
Deleting layouts
You can delete layouts from the list of layouts in the Layouts panel.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the layouts that you want to delete.
2. Delete the layouts in any of the following ways:
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Press Backspace or Delete.
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Click Delete Layout.
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Right-click a single layout and choose Delete Layout from the context menu.
NOTE
You can only delete a single layout at a time when using the context menu.
Setup mode
Layouts
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