MAKING NOTES
The Splentino typeface: reviving Plantin for musical scores
In this guest post, Ben Byram-Wigfield tells the story behind the creation of the Splentino typeface, which is included with Dorico 6. The Plantin typeface was designed in 1913 by the Monotype Drawing Office, near Redhill in the UK, under the direction of Frank...
Dorico 6.0.10 released with more than 50 fixes
We've today released Dorico 6.0.10, the first maintenance release for Dorico 6. It includes more than 50 fixes for issues reported in Dorico 6.0, and also introduces a few modest improvements of its own. Read on for more details! Improvements and fixes Here are a few...
Dorico 6 is now available: Perfect scores, faster
We’re delighted to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 6, the brand new generation of our family of music notation and composition software for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. This version is absolutely packed with new features, with a particular focus on...
SHOWCASE
Inside Mahmoud Abuwarda’s “The East Classics”, made with Dorico
Mahmoud Abuwarda is a Palestinian composer, guitarist, and educator known for his evocative, genre-blending music. His work spans symphonic, cinematic, and contemporary styles, including video game soundtracks and orchestral jazz. A dedicated teacher at Rumeli...
50 Psalms, 245 Pages: The RSCM Book of Psalm Songs, made with Dorico
The RSCM Book of Psalm Songs, published by the Royal School of Church Music in October 2024, features 70 settings of 50 psalms and canticles over 245 pages. This collection is designed to enrich worship across different denominations. Alan Smith and David Ogden edited...
Jake Runestad’s “A Dream So Bright”: A Grammy Nomination and the Role of Dorico in Shaping His Music
In this Dorico Showcase series we’re thrilled to feature composer Jake Runestad, where we talk about his latest Grammy-nominated album, A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad. Recorded by Arizona-based True Concord Voices & Orchestra, conductor Eric...
TUTORIALS
Translating Finale projects to Dorico using MusicXML
Since the news that Finale has been discontinued, the main questions we've received from Finale users looking to migrate to Dorico concern what to do with their existing Finale projects, and how to move them over to Dorico. In this tutorial, we'll talk about when it...
Learn Note Input in Dorico: New series of tutorial videos released
I love Dorico, but then I have a rather special relationship with it. Not only am I in the extremely fortunate position to help present it to the world—by helping to shape the features and designing the user interface—I also have the great honour of showing it off to...
Tip: Fix page layout and edit Flow Headings in Dorico Elements 4
Overwriting text tokens to add titles and other information can lead to layout issues. In Dorico Elements...
OPINION
Female composers in the Dorico manual: centenary edition
The Dorico 4 manuals now contain music by over 100 different female composers.
In this post, Dorico’s documentation author Lillie looks at ten of these and invites you to listen to some excellent recordings.
Women composers and the Dorico Operation Manual
As of this moment in time, there are excerpts of music by sixteen different women composers spread throughout the Dorico 2 Operation Manual. There are a few by some ‘typical’ names from the canon too of course, like Debussy, Mozart, and Brahms, but I wanted to make a...
Classical Music in the Age of #MeToo
In recent years, the issue of sexual harassment has sent shockwaves reaching from the film industry to national governments – and the world of classical music has not been immune from revelations. Earlier this year, the Washington Post published the results of its...
NEWS
Dorico 6.0.10 released with more than 50 fixes
We've today released Dorico 6.0.10, the first maintenance release for Dorico 6. It includes more than 50 fixes for issues reported in Dorico 6.0, and also introduces a few modest improvements of its own. Read on for more details! Improvements and fixes Here are a few...
Dorico 6 is now available: Perfect scores, faster
We’re delighted to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 6, the brand new generation of our family of music notation and composition software for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. This version is absolutely packed with new features, with a particular focus on...
Save 40% on Dorico 5 in our NAMM Deals Sale
Every January, the music industry converges on the Anaheim Convention Center in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, for the NAMM Show. The show has been buffeted by global events in recent years – the pandemic caused the NAMM Show in January 2021 to move to a...
Productivity improvements in Dorico 2.2
Flow headings in Dorico 2.2