I've posted some of my frustrations with learning Dorico before, but I just set my first string quartet in it. It isn't long, so it basically took me 3 days to come up with a satisfactory setting. The piece is from 1987, although I've made some revisions near the end. I've never been happy with some of the glissandi as well as the ending. It still seems abrupt, but less so now. I wrote out all of the aleatoric bits. I did have some funky things to do to make the notes after left hand pizz. grace notes not be pizz. That required some invisible staves with music on them to play the arco notes. Dorico doesn't do scrolling scores, so it is just audio here and static video.
I didn't realize that I hadn't posted my new trumpet concerto, so here it is. The trumpeter I was writing it for seems to have gone dark and isn't answering emails, so I'm still working on a performance. I've posted the scrolling Sibelius performance here, although I have also since converted it to Dorico. The Sibelius performance is marginally better. It's longer than a typical concerto, but I couldn't stomach dropping some of the music. I could have dropped the second movement, but I liked it too much. 2024 was a good composing year for me, having finished two major orchestral works. (82 minutes of orchestral music), plus a couple of arrangements and the settings of my String Quartet No. 3. String Quartet No. 5, was finally premiered in March, but I couldn't attend, and they never sent me the recording.
The composition of the trumpet concerto overlapped with Symphony No 4. They don't share any material other than some source materials, scales, rows, etc. The trumpet concerto used the rows/sets in a more vertical way, while the Symphony use a more linear implementation. It doesn't sound 12-tone, though, which it technically is - well, post 12-tone, maybe. Everything I write could probably be classified as that. String Qt No 1 is actually NOT 12-tone, but it carries the kernals of my eventual style and is less tonal than my subsequent work.
In case you are interested, all my string quartets now appear in my playlist under the music tab.
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FYI, the scrolling video of the trumpet concerto was an intermediate version before I translated it into Dorico, so it has a number of empty staves. They aren't in the final score.