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Dorico concepts
Dorico is based on a number of key concepts that come from its design philosophy.
Design philosophy and higher-level concepts
Deep design considerations are required to create a notation software like Dorico, which might be of particular interest to users familiar with scoring applications. Dorico has a forward-thinking design that is led by musical concepts rather than computational convenience, and this provides many benefits.
Projects in Dorico
A project is an individual file that you create within Dorico Elements. It can contain multiple separate pieces of music of any duration, written for any combination of instruments, and use as many layouts as required.

Projects in Dorico

A project is an individual file that you create within Dorico Elements. It can contain multiple separate pieces of music of any duration, written for any combination of instruments, and use as many layouts as required.

For example, you can create a single project that contains all the preludes and fugues in Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” as separate flows. You could then have one layout that contains only the flows for Book 1 and another layout that contains the flows for Book 2.

In addition to the notated music, projects save other relevant information, such as the playback template applied.

Dorico projects are saved as .dorico files.