MAKING NOTES
Dorico 5 helps you create music that moves
We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the brand new generation of our music notation and composition software, Dorico, with updated versions available now for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. Dorico 5 is packed with powerful and useful features...
Dorico 4.3 released with refined Key Editor and much, much more
We're pleased to announce the release of Dorico 4.3, our eighth (and very probably final) release of 2022, and it's a big one. This release is headlined by a brand new feature that automatically generates voicings for chord symbols (in Dorico Pro only), which should...
Dorico 4.2 released with percussion editor, linked mode improvements, and more
Only three weeks after the Dorico 4.1.10 update, we're back again with Dorico 4.2. This update represents another big step forwards for the new Key Editor, with the reintroduction of the percussion editor, and some important improvements to the way the Key Editor...
SHOWCASE
Dorico Showcase: Kenneth Leighton’s “Laudes Animantium”
This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. Many of British composer Kenneth Leighton's...
Dorico Showcase: Preparing a 600 Pages Full Score for Merlin Ballet Performance
This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. Northern Ballet is a UK based company best known...
Dorico Showcase: Composer Austin Jaquith on “Heldenleben 2020”
This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. It might have seemed perverse even two years ago...
TUTORIALS
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...
Tip: Add notations during note input
You don't need to exit note input to create other notations. For example, type Shift+D to open the...
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 5.0.10 maintenance update now available
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 5.0.10, the first maintenance release for Dorico 5.0, which was released a week ago. This is a free update for existing Dorico Pro 5, Dorico Elements 5 and Dorico SE 5 users, and fixes a number of issues...
Dorico 5 helps you create music that moves
We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the brand new generation of our music notation and composition software, Dorico, with updated versions available now for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. Dorico 5 is packed with powerful and useful features...
Dorico 4 First Steps guide published
Our First Steps guide for new Dorico users was updated in February to correspond with functionality available in Dorico 4, and translations of this updated version are now available in German, Japanese, French, and Italian. You can find the First Steps guide and its...
Productivity improvements in Dorico 2.2
Flow headings in Dorico 2.2