Choral Gradual Dynamics on all Staves

Hi Dorico Users and Admin,

I’m in a bit of a quandary! Im trying to get gradual tempo changes on all staves at once like what I have shown in the attached photo. I have it circle in red… This is how published choral scores are.

… Does any one know how to do this? Some of the answers I have seen are from 2+ years ago? Any insight on this? This is an important feature for many choral compositions.

I have Dorico Pro 4 and was wondering maybe this option is available in Dorico Pro 5?

Any insight would be very helpful!!

Thanks!

No, system objects can be shown only over groups of instruments/singers, not on every staff.

I would try to use staff text, and create a paragraph style with the same style as the gradual tempo changes. Then you can set a shortcut to invoke the staff text with that very paragraph style.

Well, there are a lot of published choral scores that only show tempo marks on the top staff and piano; though I’ll grant you it’s more useful on every staff.

As LAE says, just add Staff Text for the lower staves, with a Paragraph Style to match. (“Duplicate to Staff Below” is your friend.)

And speaking of styles, Bold for tempi, italics for expressions is also how most modern published scores are.

Where did you get the standards quote from?

That’s from Gould. Though the style guides of Boosey, Universal and others concur. OUP also uses bold.

I suspect that publishers that use Large Bold text for tempi don’t put them on every staff.

Some publishers do specify gradual tempo in italics, and I suspect those are more likely to add them on other staves.

As a tenor, I’m likely to write ‘rit…’ in on my line wherever there is one, so I do see the value.

I’m guessing you wouldn’t put the initial Tempo instruction, e.g. “Allegro” at bar 1, on every staff, though, so… :man_shrugging:

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Thanks allot! Can you point me in the right direction of how to create a key command shortcut? I’ve tried to do it by going to preferences but I’m not doing something correctly…

Thanks benwiggy! This helps too, as most choral scores I have look like the picture I sent!