I am practicing with Dorico by entering the first part of the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 In A. The score lists the clarinets in A with no key signature, but Dorico doesn’t appear to have a clarinet configured in that key for assignment to a player.
I’d prefer not to have to transpose in my head to enter the Dorico part correctly. I tend to get lost because I’m just not that good at it.
Googling “Dorico transpose instrument” has so far yielded nothing that suggests I can change the transposition of an assigned instrument. Is this not possible, or am I missing something?
Since the symphony is in A major, and the clarinets are also in A, the written key for the clarinet will be C major (no sharps or flats).
In Setup mode, after clicking on Clarinet you should see a menu to the right that will let you choose the appropriate transposition. I hope this helps!
In the Edit menu there are options for Concert pitch and Transposed pitch.
With Transposed pitch, entering a key signature of A major will show no sharps or flats for a Clarinet in A.
If you really want a “clarinet with no key signature” (which you probably don’t, for a Beethoven score) you can create an open (or atonal) key signature. Press shift-K to get the key signature popover, then type “open” (without the quotes) in the box. The default key signature for a new score in Dorico is “open”, which might have confused you - if the default had been “C major”, your clarinet in A would have had a key signature of 3 flats in a transposed pitch score.