PhysMuse

I have been looking into Dorico 6 as scoring software as it works together nicely with my D.A.W. Cubase 14, also being made by Steinberg. Cubase has a very limited version of Dorico integrated in it, but I wanted to have the standalone software to learn about scoring on its own.

That is not to say that I know anything about scoring, but I want to learn.

I found a course on Udemy that looked to be what I was after, Dorico Complete Music Notation Course by Luke Carlson. It says that it is designed for Dorico 5 or earlier, but it seemed to be fine for Dorico 6. The only issue that I experienced were a few shortcuts being different.

The course was really interesting and covered many different score types such as vocal music, modern notation, orchestral, percussion, String quartets and so forth. There were also sections on creating infographics that depicted ornaments and guitar tablature, play mode, and score and part formatting.

The course was very comprehensive, and I learnt a lot about how to create scores. Now all I need to do is learn to compose so that I can write my own scores.

Here is Movement IV of Five Movements for String Quartet Op. 5 by Anton Webern, one of the exercises to recreate this score.

Here is the same piece playing back in Dorico.

I have a lot of learning to do.

What is your favorite scoring software? Please leave a comment.