Roman numerals analysis and functional analysis on Dorico 5

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I found this video (sorry, the language is German.)

Is this the standard way to do it now? Or is @dan_kreider’s way still an active way to do it?

How do most Dorico users currently do analysis?

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There are a few things there that are different from MusAnalysis, but the functional analysis there looks very complex to input.

In that case, I still think it’s easier to use MusAnalysis with multiple lines of lyrics and adjust up or down as needed to get the complex functional analysis symbols. I tried to make these symbols in the font, but it was incredibly complicated to do.

For what it’s worth, MusAnalysis is primarily intended for RNA. That’s where it shines. Functional analysis was added later. If I were to return to it, I would absolutely make functional analysis its own font.

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There is also Riemann font:

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Oooh! Is this a Daniel Spreadbury-style, “this feature is not yet available…,” set-us-all-awtitter kind of statement, @dan_kreider…???

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Haha, maybe. Creating those fonts was a ton of work and I’m not sure I have the impetus for it. If there was a compelling need, I would.

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Roger that!

If you ever do, in addition to the “strict” Riemann (pedagogical) categories of T, D, and S (if I’m remembering my Riemann correctly), the more generic T, D, and PD would be great. There’s also been some interesting extensions of it in the functional analysis of jazz harmony over the years. I’d be happy to share anything I can down the road if you ever decide to “take the plunge.”

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Thanks. The font does already have a good deal of that existing. Potentially all of it, if you’re willing to use multiple lines of lyrics to create the complex figures.

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Thanks, Dan. I assumed from your post above that you had not included much of that. And since my regular classroom theory-teaching days are in the past, I haven’t had much reason to look for them. But I do have the font, so I’ll be sure to check it out more thoroughly, especially when I find myself putting my theorist’s or teacher’s cap back on.

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The method shown in the YouTube video cannot be a standard convention, as the MilanAnalyse*** font package has not yet been released. The @dan_kreider method is still the handy convention for most Dorico users.

It would be very nice if Dorico supported it (Roman numerals in step theory; function symbols in function theory, which is relatively standard notation in Germany and the USA), but I cannot insist on it because other competing products (Sibelius and Finale) do not officially support it either.

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In case anyone doesn’t know, SMuFL (and therefore Bravura) includes Riemann symbols, I think a pretty complete set of them.

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