Transposition into all 12 keys

Dorico
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Hello Dorico user family,

I’m pretty new to Dorico, and I’m getting along well. As a Jazz educator, I often need to make teaching material showing passages in all 12 keys. I’m hoping to use Dorico to produce books of this material.

I’m finding it a bit difficult to do in Dorico, though. If I enter a simple 2 bar phrase, I have no problem transposing that into another key. I’ve figured that much out. However, If I enter that phrase in C major (yes i’ve entered the key signature), then copy it and paste it into the next two bars, I can’t get those bars to transpose key signatures. I’ve tried this in other (visible) key signatures too. I can’t even get Dorico to select the key signature in those second two bars.

If anyone has figured out the workflow on this, I’d greatly appreciate some pointers. Thanks in advance!

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If memory serves me right, it isn’t possible to transpose parts of a flow by KS. You will have to enter the KSs one by one and transpose the content accordingly by alt-shift/up-down-arrow, OR use one flow per key sign…

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That seems a very odd decision to me. In the case of one flow per key, how would I then get all of the phrases onto the same page?

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There’s a setting for flows to start on existing pages in Layout Options… not near D. Atm so can’t spell it out :slight_smile:

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Before you try to transpose by key, be sure you define the original passage explicitly as being in C with the Key Signature tool.

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Yes, I’ve done that.

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You, my friend, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you very much!!! This solves it for me.