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If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 13 Mar 2020, 11:42
by benwiggy
I was transcribing a piece by Palestrina into Dorico, when I suddenly noticed that the 16th-century printed source I was reading was ... by Dorico! :grin:

So I then started thinking: what if Dorico had Dorico? A short time later, I produced this page in the style of a 16th-century partbook:
Palestrina Dorico.pdf
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I've managed to match his original system breaks (except for one). I think he'd be rather impressed with the result.

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 13 Mar 2020, 13:46
by John Ruggero
benwiggy wrote: 13 Mar 2020, 11:42 I think he'd be rather impressed with the result.
I think so too. Beautiful.

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 13 Mar 2020, 16:55
by David Ward
John Ruggero wrote: 13 Mar 2020, 13:46
benwiggy wrote: 13 Mar 2020, 11:42 I think he'd be rather impressed with the result.
I think so too. Beautiful.
Yes, indeed.

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 14:02
by John Ruggero
Now if Sibeiius had had Sibelius...

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 15:26
by Anders Hedelin
And if Fin... No, forget that.

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 15:52
by Anders Hedelin
There was, once, a music-notation program called Stravinsky (which he couldn't have used himself - otherwise than posthumously, that is).

Reading the advertisements you got the impression it might very well compete with Finale. I never got round to trying it out myself, and now it seems to have gone completely missing.

Does anyone know what the program was like, and what happened to it?

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 20:56
by Anders Hedelin
My memory may have played a trick with me, I think the name of the program was "Igor Engraver". Does that ring a bell for anyone?

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 21:10
by John Ruggero
I was about to suggest that, Anders. There is a recent discussion of Igor on this site.

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 26 Mar 2020, 10:24
by OCTO
Anders Hedelin wrote: 25 Mar 2020, 15:26 And if Fin... No, forget that.
Haha! I would say "Finally!"

Re: If Dorico had Dorico...

Posted: 14 Jul 2020, 16:25
by benwiggy
Finally had time to finish all six parts of this Palestrina motet, each as a separate page, and I've applied a slight tint to the 'paper'.

There's only two places in all where I haven't quite matched his original line breaks: mostly problems due to the modern innovation of putting lyrics actually under the right syllable.