Bach Cantata in Dorico?

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Hi,
in nearly two weeks I have the opportunity to show Dorico for an hour on a conference of church musicians in our region. My main business is brass music (“Posaunenchor”), thereofore I’m lagging other material. I do have a lot of Dorico files, but I don’t have very much music for choirs or solo voices. Does anyone has a Bach Cantata set in Dorico, he (or she) is willing to share with me? And a nice organ piece? Or other material to show off with Dorico: flows, condensing, figured bass, lyrics …
In Germany many church musicians use Capella, which looks awful. Thererfore I would like to make them switch! :slight_smile:

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I can help.

I have a pretty decent edition of BWV 106 “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit”, (Actus Tragicus).

It has a lot of interesting features which highlight what Dorico is capable of.

Movements as flows
Figured bass
Different layouts for gambas (individual, with bassi, both gambas together)

But most original is the fact that in the same file, you get both the F version (lost but implied as original pitch) and the Chorton version in E-flat that we have from the only extant copy. While I do think it’s wrong to perform it in E-flat nowadays, knowing what we know, I thought it would still be a great exercise in demonstrating what Dorico can do with layout transpositions. Hope it helps!
Bach BWV 106 - Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit.dorico (2.8 MB)

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Capella is responsible for some of the worst examples on CPDL.

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I should add that there is a Vocal Score layout, but I’ve never completed it. That is why there is an empty “Right Hand” player. I meant to resolved the figured bass there, but life had other ideas!!

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Thank you @claude_g_lapalme, this is very helpful!

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