If this would work across staves, that would be a really handy feature and educational tool.
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In Dorico 4 there is a new feature that will add chord symbols based on the selected music, which might be worth exploring. It is included in Dorico Pro 4 and is also meant to be included in Dorico Elements 4, though due to a misconfiguration it doesn’t actually work in Elements 4 at the moment: this will be fixed as soon as possible.
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As I continue to work through my studies, Dorico continues to be so useful. It’s quick, amazing UX, and helps me rapidly work through exercises.
Today the teacher showed an example where he revoiced a chord because after applying a mechanical voicing it resulted in a minor 9th that was undesirable. That got me thinking… wouldn’t it be great if I could make a selection (across staves) and not just recognize and generate chord symbols, but perform any kind of desired analysis, say from a plugin ecosystem or simple rule builder. I would most definitely run the script that detects minor 9ths.
This would just be one application. It would be great to be able to “hunt” for anything you may want to quickly identify in a passage (minor 2nds between the top two voices, for example, or 3rds below a certain low register to address potential muddiness). Even just highlighting the notes and applying a temporary/analysis/annotation label would be enough. Sort of like a “teacher mode” overlay if you will that can be toggled the way the instrument filter can be toggled.
I know this might be pushing the boundaries of Dorico’s original mission — which we all know is engraving — but the fact remains that Dorcio is so useful in the learning context that addressing some learning features might make market sense now that Dorico has delivered on it’s original promise.
As a student, I certainly have my fingers crossed! 
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100% thumbs up from me!
I agree. Dorico is already able to identify chords but only within a single staff. I do a lot of sax quartet arranging with bass and drum parts and it would be awesome to be able to generate chord symbols based on all four parts. I’ve been doing some of my initial writing in StaffPad, on the iPad which has that feature but it would be great to have that right inside Dorico.
@dspreadbury mentions above, this is now possible in Dorico 4. Chord Recognition Feature Request? - #22 by dspreadbury
Generating chord symbols from selected notes is in the manual now, here.
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Not true. It can identify chords across the whole score.
It does identify across the whole score and it’s very useful. Assign a shortcut for quick access. I’d been looking for this capability for ages, and there it was, right under my nose!
It took a while to figure out the key words to search the help. For anyone else looking, in Dorico 5:
Edit > Notations > Chord Symbols and Diagrams > Generate Chord Symbols from Selection
Dear All, I am writing to this post here as the topic has a link to it.
When I select for example 3 notes in one staff, then the chord is displayed. That is very nice!
But when using divisi, or using notes on diffrent players lets say 3 trumpet lines or even my example one piano, then it is not displayed, even it is the same chord.
So, it would be very useful, if I could chose any notes and the chord will be shown in the bottom information bar.
Thank you and best regards,
Alain