This Prelude and Fugue was one of the pieces I learned for my own Grade 8 piano exam, and the Fugue was the first time I’d ever seriously been forced to consider that I may never actually be able to play a piece. You can get an idea of her own piano skills in her music, especially her significant hand span (she frequently writes ninths, which I for one find to be quite a stretch). She had nine children, and even before her marriage to Robert she was well-known as an accomplished and celebrated pianist. * * * * * * * * * * Clara Schumann – “Prelude and Fugue in B flat”Ĭlara Schumann was an impressive woman. Now, therefore, seemed like the perfect time to share an update on the project, and to pick out ten pieces that are my own, subjective, particular favourites, and to point you towards where you can see them in action in the manual. I’m really proud of this for several reasons, one of them being that it demonstrates just how many musical pictures are included in the manual, which I do believe really help to convey how Dorico works and support the documentation’s text explanations and another being that it’s a clear demonstration of the amount of excellent music that exists out there, easily find-able, written by composers throughout the past few hundred years who happened to be women, and who, despite all kinds of obstacles in their way, composed anyway. To accompany the release of Dorico 4.3 earlier this month (November 2022), we updated the published Dorico 4 manuals, and this particular update brought with it a significant milestone: 100 female composers represented! It also came up at the end of this episode of the Scoring Notes podcast.) (See my earlier blog post for an introduction to the project, and the reasons behind it. Many readers of this blog will know that as Dorico’s documentation author, I have been seeking music composed by women to use in the Dorico manual’s screenshots for a few years now.
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