Started a new (learning) project: Pièces de Clavecin by JNP Royer, here is the first system:
Again it will be an arrangement for carillon, and immediate I stumbled upon a few things.
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Baroque “Dorian”: the piece is in d-minor, but notated without accidentals (kind of Dorian) which was very common in that time. I checked the forum topics and saw this was mentioned before, but there was no real advice how to deal with this. If there are no accidentals Dorico assumes atonal, or you can “force” it to C-major or a-minor, but the piece is not one of those, nor is it real Dorian modal. So the question is how to deal with this. I foresee two possible problems, first the trills with or without the added accidentals by Dorico, and second is the possibility of transposing, when arranging it is often neccesary to transpose to another key, how will Dorico do this if no key is known?
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Ornament glyph: the mordent is sometimes notated as a kind of parentheses on the right of the notehead (measure 2, upper voice, first note). I could not find this one in the Bravura font. Possible solutions I could think of are: choose another font (November2?), use the normal mordent sign, or make a new glyph?
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Inputting notes: the amount of keys to type in for the upper voice ONLY of measure 5 is rather overwhelming, I needed a lot of time to figure that out, here they are:
/ start grace
5 eightnote
e note e
s start slur
/ end grace
6 quarter
f note f
shift-s end slur
/ start grace
5 eightnote
f note f
s start slur
/ end grace
shift-o ornament
short short trill
enter enter
66 dotted quarter
e note e
shift-s end slur
5 eightnote
d note d
The result is only those three notes, but complete with the grace notes, slurs and trill, but is this really the way to go, or are there more efficient ways?