6/13/2023 0 Comments Dorico manual![]() ![]() Part of the job of writing the user manual is providing visual support for the things I’m writing about. Which brings us neatly to the Dorico Operation Manual. I wonder if increasing the exposure of people to music written by unfamiliar composers will widen their idea of who a composer is, or could be. I wonder if increasing the diversity of programming will also help classical music to feel less distant and more relevant to more people. So what to do to further this progress? I personally wonder if that typical image of “a composer” as an oil painting of a man from the 1700s, wearing a curly white wig and fancy waistcoast with a quill in hand, is not only creating a stumbling block for equal programming, but also putting a wedge between a wider audience and classical (small c) music. The rate of change is not exactly fast, and the statistics still aren’t great ( about 95% of concert programming is still pieces by men) but I think there’s a greater willingness amongst orchestras and programmers actively to bring a wider range of composers into the spotlight. There’s an increasing awareness about this gap now, I feel. When you’re used to hearing about great composers who wear waistcoats and white curly wigs, the homogeny of those typical lists doesn’t jump out at you. I say that without wanting to imply criticism: even I, an aspiring composer who happened to be female, did not notice this actively whilst doing my own Music A Level. And it’s not like it’s not there at all – there’s loads! Once you start looking, pieces are everywhere!Īs Jessy McCabe correctly pointed out in 2015, there were no women composers on the A Level Music syllabus. It’s not like music composed by women is significantly different to that written by their male colleagues in fact, the Clara Schumann Prelude & Fugue in B flat that I learned for my Grade 8 piano is still one of the, to my mind, most expressive pieces I’ve ever learned, and that Fugue was the first piece ever where I truly felt doubt over ever being able to play it. But a nagging thought was embedded in my brain: where were the women? I resorted to doing some online research, and settled on Clara (Schumann). I knew I must have played music by women composers (and in fact I had, as I’d played loads of piano pieces by Joanna MacGregor) but I could not recall a single name. However, I found myself staring into an enormous blank space where names should be. ‘I’ve played instruments since I was 5, I know loads of composers….’ What to call her? Given my intended career path, it made sense to name her after a woman composer from history. As the summer rolled around, preparations for the county show were cranking up at my school farm (yes, I know, it was amazing and that’s a whole other story) and I was paired up with my lamb for the show, a chunky and lovely young ewe. I was composing fairly regularly but on a very small scale, and my main musical activities were the school choir and orchestra, and piano and flute lessons. ![]() I was 16/17 and settling in to imagining a career writing music for film (at that time). The beginning of this story goes back a way, all the way back to around 2010/11. 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 conscious effort to reach for others when creating screenshots to demonstrate functions or notations in Dorico. 34 Media musicians.As of this moment in time, there are excerpts of music by sixteen different women composers spread throughout the Dorico 2 Operation Manual. 24 Discontinued SKUs on Dorico 3.5 launch day. 19 Product Guide: Dorico 3.5 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH RTM / FCS / PA – Dorico Pro 3.5, Dorico Elements 3.5, Dorico SE 3.5. 14 Copy (tagline / claim / 25-word / 50-word / 100-word / pack). Dorico Elements 3.5: copy, key features, reasons to buy. 12 Top five reasons to buy for media musicians. 11 Top five reasons to buy for students and teachers. 11 Top five reasons to buy for composers and arrangers.11 Top five reasons to buy for engravers and publishers. 10 Copy (tagline / claim / 25-word / 50-word / 100-word / pack). Dorico Pro 3.5: copy, key features, reasons to buy. Product Guide Dorico Pro 3.5 Dorico Elements 3.5 Dorico SE 3.5 March 2020 – Version 1.0 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH FOR INTERNAL STEINBERG USE ONLY Table of contents 1. ![]()
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