Just to be 100% clear: you can hide time signatures both at the point at which they change mid-system, and cautionary time signatures at the end of the system.
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Hi! Nothing new about hiding cautionary clefs, right? Also, it would be useful to hide them individually, not all at once as is done in the Time Signatures Notation Options 5.1.
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This is super helpful, thank you!
Are there any new options in Dorico 5.1.40 for hiding cautionary clefs?"
Can you say more about the specific situation in which you need to hide clefs?
Hide clefs (Iâm not talking about cautionary clef) are practical for sight reading lessons. The student mentally puts in what he wants and there is no need to re-write the exercise. I remove them in affinity once exported to pdf, when I need this option.
You can already create an invisible clef via the Shift+C popover.
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great thanks for the info
Iâm curious how this works⊠because if you pretend the exercises are in different clefs, the modes change. How do you judge what is correct?
Or you could create these as separate flows, and set the final barline for those flows to be the double barline.
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a little outside the initial topic but to answer @Romanos
The example above is taken from a raeading manual
https://marclay-music.ch/shop/solfege-rythme/10001821-manuel-pratique-de-lecture-horizontale-et-verticale-9790045043186.html
Here is another example of a sight reading book by training the eye to do visual chunking and widen the field of vision: very good book:
here a page:
I made a javascript random questions with this kind of exercices to improve sight reading with flashcards:
to develop visual reflexes, interior ear training, mental visualisation on an instrument.But the student is sufficiently advanced to self-correct and can practice with any key. the goal is the speed so chunking informations
After watching the YouTube presentation âVocal & Choral Music, and Handbells | Discover Doricoâ from Oct 23, 2024, I created a SA / TB and Piano project with the intention of using a closed score for most of the project with the ability to use divisi when needed for clarity as suggested in an older YouTube video " How to Work With Divisi in Dorico Pro | Getting Started with Dorico 2".
I put some random material for Soprano and Tenor in the first up-stem voice and more random material for Alto and Bass in a new down-stem voice. Splitting the Soprano/Alto line works well when it is at the end of a system. I can copy/paste from the Alto down-stem voice to the divisi staff.
When I tried the same with the Tenor and Bass, I need to change the Tenor clef to the âtreble8baâ which works; however, a cautionary clef appears at the end of the previous system. The Bass line continues to use the correct clef. I would like to remove only the cautionary treble 8ba clef.
Additional: I did find a post from 2016 (Clef changes in Divisi Staves Question - #10 by Rob_Tuley) suggesting to change the alpha channel of the clef to transparent. This does work.
I suppose alternatively you could use bass clef for the tenors instead of the treble 8ba clef, and then Dorico would probably not draw the cautionary clef. The tenors are already reading bass clef in the tenor/bass condensed staves, and they might be surprised by the sudden change of clef in the divisi staves. But if thatâs not what you want, then changing the alpha channel to transparent as you did is probably the best way to go.
LOL⊠Thatâs one of a Tenor choristerâs superpowers - knowing that in closed score youâre reading bass clef and in open reading treble.
Speaking for my people, yes, we can sing from either clef, but, for example: if there is a change from open score to closed score over a page turn, there is a moment of âwhere am I, and whatâs that note?â.
And as a publisher, Iâve always said that if youâre not going to save an extra sheet of paper over the whole piece, then you might as well just keep it all open; and even if it would cost you an extra sheet, you might want to weigh up whether itâs worth it for the better legibility!
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I am a choir tenor too⊠Reading from bass clef is no problem. Somehow the sound one prepares in the head (before singing the actual note) feels different if the music is notated in bass clef.
I notice the French are more specific, they have Bass-taille for that kind of voice. Is it what we call Bariton?