Option to rotate pitches while keeping the melody contour

Dorico
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I would like to have an option to keep the melody contour when rotating the pitches

2

If you mean only rotate the pitches but don’t rotate the rhythm, this should be possible already. See also here for the note tools popover option.

3

Thanks for your response. What I mean is the melodic contour. In the example, if I rotate the pitches in A one step backward I would like to get the result like B not C if possible.

RotatePitchesWithContour
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I find this sort of problem is most easily solved using music21.

Here’s quick 'n dirty routine to do what you want
rotate-contour.zip (1.1 KB)
And here’s the output…
contour-rotate
With a little tweaking you could export your phrase from Dorico as an xml, manipulate it using music21 and re-import to Dorico. (There’s a thread on setting up Dorico for music21 here.)

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Janus, I appreciate your generous help. It’s exactly what I want. I will download music21 and play around with it the next few days and I will try out your Python script. I would like to see Dorico offering this option at some point in time. Another transformation option that I would like to have is to be able combine the pitches vertically into a chord with an option to have the first pitch as the root. If that is something easy to do I would like to have your help on that. Thanks again.

6

I’ve sent a PM.

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Thanks