Looking at the parts

If the tab bar was hidden, it is now shown.

You can also click New Tab at the right end of the tab bar.

You can also select it from the layout selector in the toolbar.

You are now viewing the Clarinet part layout. It contains only the music belonging to the Clarinet player. To check this, select the Clarinet part in the Layouts panel on the right, then look at the Players panel on the left: only the Clarinet player has an active checkbox, meaning only that player is assigned to the Clarinet part layout.

A few key differences are probably obvious: by default in Dorico, part layouts have cream pages, whereas scores have white pages; the Clarinet part has no staff labels, but the full score has abbreviated staff labels on every system; the first system in the Clarinet part is slightly indented; the staff size is larger in the Clarinet part; and the casting off is different, namely which bars appear in each system.

Many of these differences follow generally accepted practices: part layouts require staves to be large enough to read comfortably from a music stand, but because they typically only show the music for one instrument, they don’t need the staff labels that are helpful in full scores. These are some of the settings you can adjust for each layout independently.

Another aspect of layouts that is independent is the casting off, which you can now try changing.

System breaks that you have inserted manually appear as signposts. You can hide/show some or all signposts from the View > Signposts menu.

Bar 11 is now at the start of a new system. But what has happened to bar 11 in the score?

Bar 11 is exactly where you left it, in the middle of the top system on page 2.

System and frame breaks are layout-specific, meaning that inserting them in one layout doesn’t affect any other layouts.

There’s one more key layout-specific aspect of how music can appear that we would like to introduce you to.

This controls the property scope, allowing you to determine whether subsequent local properties you change take effect only in the current layout (Locally), or in all layouts (Globally).

All the selected hairpins now appear as cresc. text with dotted continuation lines. But what if you wanted to keep the hairpins in the part layouts?

Because Gradual style is a local property, and the property scope was set to Locally when you changed it in the full score, that change only affected the score, leaving the appearance of the selected crescendos in the corresponding part layouts untouched.

Let’s check the rest of the parts.

The next layout is the Cornet, and its crescendo in bar 15 is also still a hairpin.

If you want to cycle back the other way, press Shift-Alt/Opt-[.

You can also select an item on a staff, then press W to switch to/from the corresponding part/score.

As you looked through all the parts, you may have noticed they all had a redundant flow heading below the project title at the top of the page, displaying “1. See See Rider”. Although you learned how to hide flow headings in an earlier task, that only affected one layout.

This allows you to hide flow headings in all part layouts at the same time. When you change options in Layout Options, you’re doing so for whichever layouts are selected on the right of the dialog.

You can also select multiple layouts by clicking and dragging across them, Shift-clicking adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd-clicking individual layouts.

In one go, you’ve hidden all flow headings in all part layouts. You could do the same if you wanted to, for example, show bar numbers every bar, change the staff size, change the default gaps between systems, and so on.