Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel

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Dorico Pro
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The Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel allows you to create and input common key signatures and your own custom key signatures. It is located in the right zone in Write mode.

  • You can hide/show the Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel by clicking Panels , then Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals in the Notations toolbox.

    You can also hide/show the right zone by pressing Ctrl/Cmd-9.

The Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel contains the following sections:

Tonality System

Contains a menu that allows you to select tonality systems to use and provides options that open the Edit Tonality System dialog.

The Tonality System section of the Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel

The action bar at the bottom of the section contains the following options:

  • New Tonality System : Creates a new custom tonality system and opens the Edit Tonality System dialog.

  • Duplicate Tonality System : Creates a copy of an existing tonality system that you can edit separately from the original and opens the Edit Tonality System dialog.

  • Edit Tonality System : Opens the Edit Tonality System dialog and allows you to edit the selected existing tonality system.

  • Import Tonality System : Opens the File Explorer/macOS Finder, where you can select the tonality system .doricolib file that you want to import into the current project.

  • Export Tonality System : Opens the File Explorer/macOS Finder, where you can select the location to which you want to export the selected tonality system as a .doricolib file. You can then import the .doricolib file into other projects and share it with other users.

  • Delete Tonality System : Deletes the selected tonality system.

    Note

    You cannot delete predefined tonality systems or any tonality system that is currently used in your project.

Used in This Flow

Contains all the key signatures currently used in the flow.

Key Signatures

Allows you to create key signatures.

The Key Signatures section of the Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel

The Key Signatures section contains the following parts:

  1. Major/Minor

    Allow you to choose whether your key signature is Major or Minor.

  2. More Sharps/Fewer Flats

    Each time you click, you add one sharp accidental to the key signature, or remove one flat accidental from the key signature.

  3. Fewer Sharps/More Flats

    Each time you click, you remove one sharp accidental from the key signature, or add one flat accidental to the key signature.

  4. Input key signature

    Shows how the key signature looks on a staff. Clicking this button inputs the displayed key signature. If nothing in the project is selected, the key signature is loaded onto the mouse pointer.

Custom Key Signatures

Contains any custom key signatures you have created for the currently selected tonality system.

Accidentals

Contains all accidentals available in the currently selected tonality system.