User manual

RELATED LINKS
Hiding/Showing instrument change labels at the start of ows on page 906
Staff labels on page 901
Transposing instruments
While most instruments produce notes at concert pitch, transposing instruments produce a note
that is different to the one that is written. For example, two common orchestral transposing
instruments are clarinet in B
♭ and horn in F.
When a clarinet in B♭ plays a C, the sound produced is a B♭, one whole step (tone) below.
When a horn in F plays a C, the sound produced is an F, a
fth below. Other instruments
that conventionally produce a pitch different to the one notated include the piccolo (sounding
an octave above written), double bass (sounding an octave below written), and glockenspiel
(sounding two octaves above written).
Dorico Elements stores all note information in concert pitch and automatically transposes notes
as appropriate for the transposition of the instrument. This means notes, key signatures, and
chord symbols are automatically changed in transposing layouts compared to non-transposing
layouts. You can also change instruments at any time, and the music is adjusted automatically to
ensure the correct pitches are shown.
You can also change the octave of individual clefs.
RELATED LINKS
Instrument picker on page 83
Instrument numbering on page 101
Instrument transpositions in staff labels on page 904
Concert vs. transposed pitch on page 127
Making layouts transposing/concert pitch on page 127
Setting different clefs for concert/transposed pitch on page 619
Changing instruments on page 107
Hiding/Showing clefs according to layout transpositions on page 619
Clefs with octave indicators on page 621
Fretted instrument tuning
Fretted instruments can have different numbers of strings and frets. In order to display tablature
for fretted instruments in Dorico Elements, you must specify information about the tuning of
fretted instruments.
Dorico Elements requires the following information to display tablature:
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The number of strings the instrument has
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The open pitch of each string
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The number of frets
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The fret number at which each string starts, such as for the fth string on a banjo
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The pitch intervals between frets
When you assign a fretted instrument to a player or change an existing instrument, any available
tunings for that instrument are shown in the instrument picker.
You can also customize all aspects of fretted instruments in the Edit Strings and Tuning dialog.
Setup mode
Instruments
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