I hope the programmers of Dorico consider addressing this preference in a future update, because the chord symbol practice I’ve described is, by all means, an industry standard. But because there is no option in Dorico for me to globally remove the word “add” from all seventh chord symbols from here to eternity, I am condemned to manually deleting the word “add” each and every time Dorico auto-inserts it into my chords, for the rest of my days, and that is not the most effective use of my time as an composer/arranger. This wouldn’t be a problem if there was a way I could globally establish my preference. In short, Dorico doesn’t notate all tensions on seventh chords in a consistent, industry standard way. So why does Dorico auto-insert the word “add” into the parenthesis of every other situation? It doesn’t make any sense. Likewise “C7(b9,b13)” is always preferred over “C7(add b9,add b13).” the word "add’ is only necessary with triads: C(add9) is preferred over C(9) as not to be confused with C9.Īgain, Dorico notates the ( #9) and ( #11) on dominant 7th chords exactly as I would notate them. Cm7(9) is always preferred over Cm7(add9). In summary, I was taught, the word “add” is entirely unnecessary with common tensions attached to dominant, major and minor seventh chord symbols. I was fully expecting to find my preferred convention (detailed above) as the “Boston” style because this is the way Berklee College of Music teaches chord notation. Why follow the convention here, but not all the time? Oddly, Dorico expresses C7( #9) exactly as one would expect. I honestly don’t understand why the simple practice of putting upper structure tensions in parenthesis after 7th chords is NOT considered a standard practice in Dorico. Yes I watched this video before posting here - unfortunately my preference (above) effects literally thousands of possible combinations, so teaching them one by one into Dorico would take years. Alternately, I tried writing this same chord as D9(13) which would be acceptable, but again, Dorico changed this to “D9(add13).”Īny help accomplishing these preferred chord symbol rules would be greatly appreciated. “D7(9,13)” is auto-changed to read “D7(add 9, add 13)” and this is not what I prefer. Additionally, Dorico is imposing the word “add” onto stacked tensions as well – i.e. In other words, in the case of a dominant 7th chords, I would prefer Dorico not add the word “add” onto (9, b9, #9, #11,13 or b13) as these are simple and expected additions to dominant 7th chords – similarly to how Dorico handles the D7( #9) in the same screen capture – in that it did not impose the word “add” onto my chord entry. This interpretation is completely acceptable, however, I’d prefer this chord to read D7(13), just as I typed it.
#Entering chord names in denemo manual
In the following example, Dorico has changed my manual text chord entry of “D7(13)” into “D7(add13)”. I have however, run into a situation, where Dorico has changed a chord I’ve entered into something I don’t want, and I’d like to fix this if I can. Overall, the experience has been an improvement over Sibelius, in that Dorico has not forced a convoluted spelling over that which I prefer. I’m new to Dorico and this is my first day entering chord symbols.
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