How to Format Music for Piano Duet | Page Layout in Dorico

Dorico’s deeply integrated page layout system allows you to create advanced layouts and this tutorial shows you how to produce piano duet music - with music for the different players appearing on facing pages - completely within Dorico.
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[@jacksorjacksor]

Brilliant, thank you so much for going through this! Had no idea about the Text Frame being in their own Chain, thank you for highlighting!

[@DirkTomandl]

It is a little finicky but it works nicely!
I got it to start the visible page number at 3 instead of 4 but it required swapping left and right layouts. This seems to be more of a hack but at least it worked (Dorico v3.5).

[@kryzpygnwg7706]

why #DORICO does not have an ON-SCREEN PIANO KEYBOARD display while playing the music score (just like MUSESCORE)???

[@bmomusical]

I followed every step until 3:20. At that point I could not access the Flows or Player filters (they were greyed out) without UNLINKING the MA frame chain but then that created its own problems. I ended up just creating system breaks in the individual parts and then printing a pdf and reattaching them in the correct order --- and accepted the fact that I would have duplicate page numbers on each page turn with one of them always on the wrong side. I feel like it would be a lot simpler to have a piano4hands option when you choose instruments that initiates these steps in the video (including linking the number of measures to the corresponding pages/parts) without actually having to do it myself.

[@dorico]

Hi - sorry, only just been notified about this comment. Feel free to get in touch on [e-mail] if you're still having problems with this. We could make a piano 4-hands layout, yes. I'll suggest it, although it might seem quite niche to some.

[@lazaruss2940]

Will I be able to make in Dorico a layout for 8-handed Piano Duet that will have two systems for Piano Prima and two systems for Piano Secondo?

[@dorico]

Yes you can do that by specifying which instruments appear in each music frame.