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The correct assignment of players to ows allows Dorico Elements, for example, to generate
tacet sheets automatically for individual instrumental parts.
Layouts in Dorico Elements
Layouts dene how music for one or more players in one or more ows is presented, including
page size, margins, staff size, and so on.
Layouts combine musical content, as represented by ows, with rules for page layout and music
engraving. As well as part layouts for individual players, you can have layouts for multiple players
drawn from multiple different ows. You can use the layouts to produce paginated music
notation that can be printed or exported in various formats.
A typical project for an ensemble of multiple players contains several layouts. For example, a
work for string quartet in three movements contains four solo players – two violins, one viola,
and one cello – and three ows, one for each movement. Such a project might require ve
layouts:
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Four layouts each containing the music from all three ows for one of the solo players,
that is, the individual instrumental parts
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One layout containing the music from all three ows and all four players, that is, the full
score
Each layout provides independent control over practically every aspect of the visual appearance
of the music, including independent staff size, note spacing, and system formatting.
Each layout can have independent page layout properties, such as page size, margins, running
headers, and footers. These can be dened as master pages and then be applied freely to left- or
right-hand pages or to specic pages in a layout, for example, the rst or last page.
Flow frames dene where music appears on each page. One or more ows are assigned to each
ow frame, in a manner analogous to how ows of text are assigned to text frames in desktop
publishing applications. Dorico Elements also provides for text frames, which allow the
presentation of blocks of text, such as prefatory material, critical commentary, and block lyrics.
NOTE
The page layout features of Dorico Elements allow you to have multiple ow frames and text
frames on the same page. This enables you to combine music from multiple ows on the same
page.
Dorico Elements concepts
Key musical concepts
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