I’m finally at last starting a project in Dorico, having had it installed and updated since the announcement of the death of Finale. I’m responding to a very relaxed (but paid) commission to write some songs with piano, no tight deadline, my choice of texts &c. So far I’ve set up the score for the first song, made some modifications from the default (including modifying the title font to the one I like to use for titles) &c. I’ve also successfully entered the first two bars for the piano. My approach has been unorthodox and haphazard, but already I’m getting the sense that Dorico may ‘think’ more like me than Finale ever did.
I’ll try not to keep coming here with inane questions…
I now have to decide what to do with some rather large Finale projects in semi-limbo. Given that (all being well) I’m due to be 85 in less than four weeks, that may perhaps end up being mostly someone else’s problem…
If it’s any help, I’ve done a song cycle (Arthur Somervell’s A Shropshire Lad) as an example Dorico file, which you might like to look at, to see they way I’ve done things.
Thank you for the Somervell song cycle PDF. I suspect it may be a while before I can get my Dorico engraving to look as proficient as that, but it’s certainly something to aim for.
In case that wasn’t a slip of the keyboard - the file is a Dorico project, not a PDF.
As Janus points out: I’ve done very little other than enter the music. Dorico does the rest. (Though admittedly, my choice of options may be a crucial factor.)
Yes it was indeed a slip of something or other (me, primarily). So good that Dorico can do this without too much prompting. I wish the software had been available when I started using computer notation in the year 2000.
My progress is temporarily a bit stalled by my domestic heating arrangements in a house currently very exposed to an incessant, raw ESE wind driving showers of rather nasty sleet. (If I were younger I wouldn’t care.) I actually saw a little patch of blue sky a few minutes ago (it’s gone). Spring will come and music will flourish.
