User Manual
7.7
By default, Notion creates a new score in C Major / A minor (for non-transposing instruments). It’s a good practice to
assign a working key signature right from the start. Of course, this decision does not lock you in: you can always change
keys at any time in the future here at the start of the score and any number of times in the ow of your composition.
1. Ensure you are in Edit mode.
2. To open the Key Signature dialog box, either:
> Press Shift + K, or
> In the Entry Palette, hover over the fourth pane from the right and click in the pop-up menu.
» The Key Signature dialog box opens.
◙ Key Signature dialog box.
3. In the Tonic drop-down list, select key you want at the start of your score.
4. In the Mode drop-down list, select one of the following:
– Major – Ionian – Phrygian – Mixolydian – Locrian
– Minor – Dorian – Lydian – Aeolian
5. For now, leave the Enter in all parts checkbox selected.
6. Click OK.
» Your Music Cursor displays the Key signature you specied.
7. Position your Music Cursor anywhere inside the rst measure of any instrument (this will be to the right of the
time signature).
8. Click your mouse or press Enter.
» Notion adds the time signature to all staves at the beginning and at the start of each system. By default, if the
instrument is a transposing instrument (such as a Bb trumpet), the signature for that part will be in the key needed
for a live musician reading your score to perform that instrument.
You also have the option of assigning dierent key signatures to dierent instruments.
Assign Key Signature