On-line event video: "Using Dorico for Sacred Music"
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,275
    For CMAA members, David Hughes' on-line presentation about "Using Dorico for Sacred Music" is now available on the member portal.

    In this talk, David illustrates how to start with an acceptable score found on the internet and to use the notation software Dorico to make it clearer, more usable, and more beautiful for your choir.

    Here's a direct link:
    https://connect.churchmusicassociation.org/page/2026wk#202602

    Or you can log in to the member portal and follow the links to "Member Resources" and then to video recordings for 2026.
    Thanked by 3probe CHGiffen Jeffrey Quick
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,266
    Definitely worth watching. I was "there".
    My personal most-valuable takeaway: using numberless equal tuplets as ligature marks. I'd been using the line tool, but it details to the end of the note duration on the grid instead of wrapping neatly around the notes. Thanks, David!

    Also, how many of you find the Dorico default lyric size (11 pt) a little scrawny? Or is it just my presbyopia?
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,304
    Depends on the font you use. Set your own house style as default and problem solved.
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,266
    Obviously it's an easy issue to solve.My question asked exactly what it says: does it bother anyone? It one of the few bits of Dorico out-of-the-box that bothers me, so I wonder if my taste is all in my mouth,
    Thanked by 1MatthewRoth
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,275
    I don't use that particular software, but I do agree that 11-point type would be just a little small for my preference.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
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