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Concert vs. transposed pitch

Layouts in Dorico SE can use concert or transposed pitch. This affects the pitches and key

signatures on staves belonging to transposing instruments.

When music is in concert pitch, all notes are written as they sound. This means that players with

transposing instruments reading music in concert pitch must transpose the music themselves.

For example, if a clarinet in B

♭ reads a C in concert pitch, they must play the note D on their

instrument to produce the sounding note C.

When music is in transposed pitch, the notes written are the ones each instrument must play in

order to produce the desired sounding pitch. For example, if a clarinet in B♭ reads a D in

transposed pitch, the pitch that sounds from the instrument is C.

Transposing scores and parts also transpose key signatures according to the transposition of the

instrument.

RELATED LINKS

Transposing key signatures alongside selections on page 612

Enharmonic equivalent key signatures on page 613

Sorting layouts

You can change the order in which layouts appear in the Layouts panel and the layout selector,

for example, if you added a custom score layout and want it to be positioned at the top next to

the full score layout.

PROCEDURE

1. In the Layouts panel, click and drag a layout card to a different position.

An insertion line indicates where the players will be positioned.

2. Release the mouse.

RESULT

The layout is inserted at the selected position.

Renumbering layouts

You can renumber all the layouts in their project according to their current position in the

Layouts panel in Setup mode, for example, after you have dragged layouts to different positions.

PROCEDURE

● In the Layouts panel, right-click any layout card and choose Renumber Layouts from the

context menu.

RESULT

All layouts are renumbered according to their current position in the panel. Full score layouts,

custom score layouts, and part layouts are all numbered separately.