I will soon upgrade to Dorico 4. Is Gregorian chant / neums possible in Dorico 4. I may be working on a very large hymnal project that will incorporate Gregorian chant notation here and there, it being mission-critical, actually.
Thanks, Dan and co. Dorico never ceases to amaze.
Sadly, no. I wish. SomedayâŚ
There are a number of free resources online that do very well with chant.
As youâll know, plainsong chant uses entirely different rules and behaviours from âCommon Music Notationâ, and none of the major notation apps are able to create chant effectively.
(There is a plug-in for Finale, which can do it, but it is very expensive.)
Your best option would be to create the chant in the Gregorio TeX program.
Thereâs an online plainchant generator:
https://www.sourceandsummit.com/editor/legacy/?fref=gc
⌠and a large database of chant.
https://gregobase.selapa.net/scores.php
You can then generate chant as vector graphics, which you can then import as graphics.
For what itâs worth, I do think that for generating plainchant transcriptions into modern notation, Dorico cannot be beat.
I canât believe Iâve never come across this before! (Shame itâs windows only thoughâŚ) I will be giving this a try tout suite!
Well James, just tried downloading, but itâs impossible. Just a series of links which lead to sites offering various services. I gave up.
pity. Looked promising.
Iâm not sure whether this is the same application, but itâs possible that it might be available here:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/de-notularum-cantus-figuris/downloads
I was able to find the documentation here:
https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9126137283?profile=original
But it does indeed appear that the site that originally hosted the product is no longer active.
Brilliant, thanks Daniel. I can see you on Mastermind, specialist subject âObscure Medieval French Softwareâ - youâd win hands down!
Iâve downloaded the âMode dâemploiâ pdf and translated it into English, which can be downloaded from the link below
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KZoZQJ6itzll_GtIE8ZIjF6Kriw7AvQA?usp=sharing
(My Specialist Subject âTranslating Obscure Medieval French Software Instructions into Englishâ)
Doubtless, Daniel and co. have this resource, already. Yes, neumes native to Dorico is probably a project years down the road, say, Dorico 12. lol
Liber Usualis (1961)
Daniel was (âŚstill is, I thinkâŚ) a professional church musician for many years. He knows all about chant, no doubt.
âThereâs an app for that.â
Thereâs also âSquare Noteâ
And âchant toolsâ
Both of which have dynamic scores, and arenât just old page scans.
Dorico is excellent for transcribing Gregorian chant into modern notation. Iâve found this approach useful for choirs that donât read neumes.
Below shows my method of writing organ accompaniments.
Dixit Dominus.pdf (19.5 KB)
Oh, I know. Never hurts to throw mud against the wall⌠
