User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- New features
- Introduction
- Dorico concepts
- User interface
- Project window
- Workspace setup
- Switching between layouts
- Hiding/Showing panels
- Opening new tabs
- Closing tabs
- Switching between tabs
- Changing the order of tabs
- Showing multiple tabs in the same project window
- Moving tabs to another tab group
- Moving tabs to other windows
- Opening multiple project windows
- Changing to full screen mode
- Switching to galley/page view
- Changing the window color theme
- Changing the page color
- Changing the background color
- Changing your preferred unit of measurement
- Preferences dialog
- Key Commands page in the Preferences dialog
- Project and file handling
- Hub
- Starting new projects
- Opening projects/files
- Projects from different versions of Dorico
- Missing Fonts dialog
- File import and export
- Auto-save
- Project backups
- Setup mode
- Project window in Setup mode
- Project Info dialog
- Layout Options dialog
- Players, layouts, and flows
- Players
- Ensembles
- Instruments
- Instrument numbering
- Instrument changes
- Transposing instruments
- Fretted instrument tuning
- Adding instruments to players
- Adding empty percussion kits to players
- Combining individual percussion instruments into kits
- Changing instruments
- Moving instruments
- Deleting instruments
- Edit Percussion Kit dialog
- Adding instruments to percussion kits
- Changing instruments in percussion kits
- Defining percussion kits as drum sets
- Creating groups of instruments within grid presentation percussion kits
- Renaming groups in grid presentation percussion kits
- Deleting groups within grid presentation percussion kits
- Changing the positions of instruments within percussion kits
- Changing the size of gaps between lines in percussion grids
- Removing individual instruments from percussion kits
- Edit Strings and Tuning dialog
- Player groups
- Flows
- Layouts
- Player, layout, and instrument names
- Flow names and flow titles
- Videos
- Write mode
- Project window in Write mode
- Inputting vs. editing
- Rhythmic grid
- Note input
- Caret
- Inputting notes
- Selecting note/rest durations
- Inputting notes with rhythm dots
- Inputting notes into multiple voices
- Inputting notes and notations onto multiple staves
- Inputting notes in Insert mode
- Inputting notes for unpitched percussion
- Inputting notes on tablature
- Inputting accidentals
- Inputting rests
- Inputting ties
- Inputting grace notes
- Inputting chords
- Inputting tuplets
- Adding notes above/below existing notes
- Changing the pitch of individual notes
- MIDI recording
- Notations input
- Inputting articulations
- Inputting slurs
- Inputting fingerings
- Input methods for key signatures
- Input methods for time signatures and pick-up bars
- Input methods for tempo marks
- Input methods for bars, beats, and barlines
- Input methods for dynamics
- Input methods for chord symbols
- Input methods for clefs and octave lines
- Input methods for holds and pauses
- Input methods for ornaments, arpeggio signs, glissando lines, and jazz articulations
- Ornaments popover
- Ornaments panel
- Inputting ornaments/trills with the popover
- Inputting ornaments/trills with the panel
- Inputting arpeggio signs with the popover
- Inputting arpeggio signs with the panel
- Inputting glissando lines with the popover
- Inputting glissando lines with the panel
- Inputting jazz articulations with the popover
- Inputting jazz articulations with the panel
- Input methods for guitar bends and guitar techniques
- Inputting guitar bends with the popover
- Inputting guitar bends with the panel
- Inputting guitar pre-bends/pre-dives
- Inputting guitar post-bends
- Inputting vibrato bar dives
- Inputting vibrato bar dives and returns with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar dives and returns with the panel
- Inputting vibrato bar scoops with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar scoops with the panel
- Inputting vibrato bar dips with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar dips with the panel
- Inputting vibrato bar indications/lines with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar indications/lines with the panel
- Inputting hammer-ons/pull-offs
- Inputting tapping
- Input methods for playing techniques, pedal lines, string indicators, and harp pedal diagrams
- Playing techniques popover
- Playing Techniques panel
- Inputting playing techniques with the popover
- Inputting playing techniques with the panel
- Inputting pedal lines and retakes with the popover
- Inputting pedal lines and retakes with the panel
- Inputting harp pedal diagrams
- Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the popover
- Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the panel
- Inputting string indicators inside the staff
- Input methods for lines
- Inputting text
- Inputting lyrics
- Inputting figured bass
- Inputting rehearsal marks
- Inputting markers/timecodes
- Input methods for repeats and tremolos
- Repeats popover
- Repeat Structures panel
- Inputting repeat endings with the popover
- Inputting repeat endings with the panel
- Inputting repeat markers with the popover
- Inputting repeat markers with the panel
- Inputting tremolos with the popover
- Inputting tremolos with the panel
- Inputting slash regions
- Inputting bar repeats
- Editing and selecting
- Selecting/Deselecting notes and items individually
- Selecting more items of the same type
- Selecting multiple items using marquee selections
- Large selections
- System track
- Filters
- Playing/Muting notes during note input/selection
- Playing all/individual notes in chords during note input/selection
- Disabling automatic linking of dynamics and slurs when pasting
- Changing existing items
- Changing the staff-relative placement of items
- Resetting the appearance of items
- Resetting the position of items
- Hiding non-printing elements
- Navigation
- Signposts
- Arranging tools
- Splitting flows
- Comments
- Layout and formatting
- Engrave mode
- Master pages
- Flow headings
- Frames
- Music frame chains
- Page formatting
- Changing the page size and/or orientation
- Changing page margins
- Applying master page sets to layouts
- Changing the default staff size
- Changing the default staff/system spacing
- Changing the vertical justification of staves/systems
- Hiding/Showing empty staves
- Hiding/Showing blank staves after final flows
- Starting layouts on left-hand pages
- Allowing/Disallowing multiple flows on the same page
- Changing when the First master page is used
- Hiding/Showing flow headings
- Changing the margins above/below flow headings
- Hiding/Showing information in running headers above flow headings
- Changing the default music frame margins
- Changing the horizontal justification of final systems
- Staff size
- Casting off
- Frame breaks
- System breaks
- Tacets
- Condensing
- Part formatting propagation
- Music Fonts dialog
- Text objects vs. text in text frames
- Note spacing
- Staff spacing
- Play mode
- Project window in Play mode
- Event display
- Tracks
- Playhead
- Playing back music
- Repeats in playback
- Swing playback
- Mixer
- Transport window
- Playback templates
- Endpoints
- Expression maps
- Percussion maps
- Playback techniques
- Played vs. notated note durations
- Print mode
- Notation reference
- Introduction
- Accidentals
- Articulations
- Bars
- Barlines
- Bar numbers
- Beaming
- Note and rest grouping
- Brackets and braces
- Chord symbols
- Chord diagrams
- Clefs
- Octave lines
- Cues
- Dynamics
- Types of dynamics
- Positions of dynamics
- Showing dynamics in parentheses
- Changing dynamic levels
- Hiding/Showing immediate dynamics
- Hiding/Showing combined dynamic separators
- Changing the appearance of sforzando/rinforzando dynamics
- Copying dynamics
- Deleting dynamics
- Voice-specific dynamics
- Niente hairpins
- Dynamic modifiers
- Gradual dynamics
- Groups of dynamics
- Linked dynamics
- VST Expression Maps for volume types
- Figured bass
- Fingering
- General placement conventions for fingering
- Changing fingerings to substitution fingerings
- Changing existing fingerings
- Changing the staff-relative placement of fingerings
- Hiding/Showing fingering
- Deleting fingerings
- Cautionary fingerings
- Fingerings for fretted instruments
- Fingering slides
- Fingerings for valved brass instruments
- Hiding/Showing string fingering shift indicators
- Fingerings imported from MusicXML files
- String indicators
- Front matter
- Grace notes
- Holds and pauses
- Key signatures
- Lyrics
- Notes
- Harmonics
- Ornaments
- Arpeggio signs
- Glissando lines
- Guitar bends
- Guitar techniques
- Jazz articulations
- Page numbers
- Harp pedaling
- Pedal lines
- Playing techniques
- Lines
- Rehearsal marks
- Markers
- Timecodes
- Repeat endings
- Repeat markers
- Bar repeats
- Rhythm slashes
- Rests
- Slurs
- Staff labels
- Staves
- Divisi
- Tablature
- Stems
- Tempo marks
- Ties
- Time signatures
- Tremolos
- Tuplets
- Unpitched percussion
- Percussion kits vs. individual percussion instruments
- Percussion kits and drum sets
- Moving notes to different instruments in percussion kits
- Notations on notes in percussion kits
- Percussion kit presentation types
- Playing techniques for unpitched percussion instruments
- Percussion legends
- Voices in percussion kits
- Unpitched percussion in Play mode
- Universal Indian Drum Notation
- Voices
- Glossary
- Index
General placement conventions for clefs
Clefs are placed at the start of every system, with a small gap between the start of the staff and
the left edge of the clef. Their vertical placement must be precise, as this signies which pitches
are intended by the subsequent notes on the staff.
Clef changes that occur during a piece are usually smaller than the clefs shown at the start of
each system. If clef changes occur at the start of a new system or page, a cautionary clef is
shown at the end of the previous system to ensure the performer notices the change of clef.
Wherever possible, clef changes should not be positioned in the middle of tie chains. Changing
the clef changes the position of the tied note on the staff, which could easily cause a performer
to misread the tie as a slur and play two different notes. You can input clef changes in the middle
of tie chains in
Dorico Elements, but we recommend that you position clef changes either before
or after tie chains.
RELATED LINKS
Ties on page 938
Moving clefs rhythmically on page 617
Showing clefs after grace notes on page 618
Moving clefs rhythmically
You can move clefs to new rhythmic positions after they have been input.
PROCEDURE
1. In Write mode, select the clefs you want to move.
NOTE
● You cannot select initial clefs at the start of ows or clefs shown automatically at the
start of each system.
● When using the mouse, you can only move one clef rhythmically at a time.
2. Move the clefs according to the current rhythmic grid resolution in any of the following ways:
● Press Alt/Opt-Right Arrow to move them to the right.
● Press Alt/Opt-Left Arrow to move them to the left.
● Click and drag the clef to the right/left.
RESULT
The selected clefs are moved to new rhythmic positions. They take effect from their new
positions until the next clef, or the end of the
ow, whichever comes rst.
NOTE
●
You can only move clefs along staves. If you want to move a clef across staves, you must
delete the clef and input a new clef on the other staff.
●
Only one clef can exist at each rhythmic position, except for clefs that only apply to single
staves. If a clef passes over another clef as part of its move, the existing clef is deleted.
You can undo this action, but any clefs deleted in the process are only restored if you moved
the clef using the keyboard.
Clefs
General placement conventions for clefs
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12