Gjerdingen-style scale degrees for bass and treble lines, in addition to figured bass

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I am beginning to work my way through Robert Gjerdingen’s “Music in the Galant Style”, transcribing the musical examples into Dorico as a way to reinforce what I am learning. In addition to figured bass, he also annotates significant notes in bass and treble lines with their scale degrees. For bass scale degrees, he uses circled numbers; for treble scale degrees, he uses white numbers on filled black circles. You can see an example in one of his YouTube videos: https://youtu.be/xS9_BU81aWo?t=49

For my transcriptions, I would like to be able to do the same. Can anyone suggest a method to do this in Dorico (and a font if necessary)? It is important that I still be able to input figured bass in addition to the scale degrees.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Henry

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Hi!
You can set the figured bass to appear above the staff and use the lyrics tool to input the enclosed numbers. Choose a font that has those numbers (Musglyph does that I think)

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MusGlyphs has scale degrees, but MusAnalysis is a better fit for any sort of score analysis. It has all sorts of other analytical symbols you might need, including numbers with round enclosures.

PS: The current version of MusAnalysis doesn’t have white numbers inside black circles, but this was a great idea and I’ve added it to the next version, which will be available soon.