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Cautionary key signatures

When a key signature change occurs at a system break, either in the score or in a part, the new

key signature is shown at the end of the rst system as well as at the start of the new system.

This is sometimes considered a “cautionary key signature”, as players become used to seeing the

key signature at the start of the system and therefore may miss a change of key signature if it is

not conspicuously shown at the end of systems.

In Dorico Elements, as key signature changes occur immediately after barlines, the key signature

at the end of a system is the key signature itself, rather than a cautionary key signature.

If the music is separate enough that you do not want to see a key signature at the end of a

system and you cannot change where the system break occurs, you can separate the music by

creating a new ow at the point of the system break.