Feature request: Proportional transposition

Transposition in Dorico seems to be based on the premise that an entire piece (flow?) remains in a single key. (If I’m mistaken, I’m happy to be corrected.)

But if a piece has multiple sections with different key signatures, it seems one must transpose each section individually. I’m not talking about different flows; I mean the sort of thing where the middle 8 of your piece has such a different tonicization from the rest that accidentals are impractical. Or where the last chorus of the song is bumped up a whole step, etc.

Finale’s transposition tool offers a setting to transpose all keys proportionally (i.e., everything up a minor third, etc.–so the C major section would be bumped to Eb, the F# minor section would go to A minor, etc.). And it offers a “wrap keys” function, intelligent enough to realize there’s no such key signature called “B-sharp major” or “E-double-flat minor” and adjusts accordingly.

Please, for the sake of those of us who use multiple tonicizations, find a way to implement a similar function in Dorico.

You are wrong. It does not. The problem only arises if a transposition causes one or more instruments (or a section of the flow) to transpose to a key Dorico cannot accept.

This appears to be because Dorico does not restrict itself to the simple circle of fifths and can handle many different tonality systems, where B# major does not equal C major.

Nevertheless, this is frequently discussed, and it’s something we aim to accommodate in a future version.