Adventures in early music with Dorico, volume 2

April 18, 2024

Accidentals, coloration brackets, lyrics, barlines, figured bass, staff lines, ornaments, and incipits are among the various areas in Dorico that come into play when working with early music notation. We bridge the nearly 500-year gap between 21st-century software and the 16th-century plainsong it creates.

Tricks for lyrics in Finale

January 5, 2022

Conquer the powerful Lyrics tool in Finale and you'll be a master. We start with the "Type Into Score" feature and go on to much more in this series of video tutorials. Hyphens, spaces, lyric elisions, editing, clearing and deleting lyrics, copying and cloning lyrics… and that's just the first of eight videos.

Dorico 3.5.10: Little things mean so much

July 29, 2020

Dorico 3.5.10, the first minor revision to Dorico 3.5, brings finesse and refinement to a wide range of the notation app’s functions in the form of feature enhancements and bug fixes.

Adventures in figured bass with Dorico

June 10, 2020

Intelligent figured bass is one of features in Dorico, and that’s no empty boast. Dorico’s insistence on understanding the meaning of music symbols provides some very powerful capabilities. Let’s dive right in with a real-world task: adding figures to a Bach chorale.

Dorico 3.5 review

May 20, 2020

Steinberg has released Dorico 3.5, a major upgrade to its scoring program. Pitch-before-duration note input, semantic figured bass, line style editors, and condensing for section players are among the dozens of new features and improvements.

Figurato, a font for figured bass

April 16, 2019

Figurato is a specialist font for figured bass notation. It allows for easy input of multiple vertically stacked numbers and accidentals. It can be used in all major commercial desktop notation software, regardless of whether the program supports figured bass notation natively.

Early music in Dorico is more than meets the eye

April 3, 2019

Dorico's various dialog boxes, known as editors, allow users to easily customize areas of notation for specific types of scores. We explore the notation of a Handel secular cantata and an “ars subtilior” virelai. In both instances, Dorico is up to the task.