How to type in lyrics in Dorico Pro 5
What is the process for one to type lyrics into a choral piece or a hymn in Dorico Pro 5? Top picture is what my score in Dorico Pro 5 looks like. Bottom picture is what I’d like to see.
Click on a note
Shift-L, Enter
Start entering lyrics, advance using the hyphen or spacebar.
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Select the note where you want to start the lyrics. Type Shift-L and enter your lyrics.
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While we’re happy to answer any questions we can on the forum, I would respectfully suggest you consult the First Steps guide, or some of the excellent tutorial resources. It will save you (and us) a lot of time if you’re able to learn some of these foundational concepts of Dorico on your own.
But of course if you’re stuck, feel free to ask here.
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Here’s the part of the First Steps guide that details how to input some lyrics:
And more general info about inputting lyrics from the full manual:
You can also copy/paste lyrics from anywhere if you have the text already hyphenated into syllables.
If your rhythms are the same; once you’ve done one staff: Select and Filter the Lyrics, then use Edit > Paste Special > Duplicate to Staff Below.
Well worth a key shortcut, that one.
I would look to the videos, but many of the videos are set for previous versions of Dorico and show to be three to seven years of age.
I haven’t found any videos for Dorico Pro 5.
Even so, the basic principles and concepts are the same, even if the colours and icons are slightly different.
This playlist is pretty comprehensive, and was created in 2023.
One of the nice (nay downright amazing) things about Dorico is that a philosophy and core concepts were established up front: Design philosophy and higher-level concepts (steinberg.help). Because this philosophy is adhered to with every iteration, the way things work is very stable and tends to avoid changing between versions.
To be fair, of course Finale and Sibelius each had very strong concepts in their designs. But the Dorico team learned a great deal from those designs (as well as feedback from countless musicians). And Steinberg gave them the rare opportunity to create this from scratch with all they had learned.
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