Music frames

Both types of music frames can display the music and notations you have input into the project according to their music frame selectors, such as filtering only selected players or flows, or simply blank staves.

Page template music frames

Page template music frames exist only on page templates, meaning you can only input and edit page template music frames in the page template editor. They can only be assigned to page template frame chains. Therefore, the flow and player selectors of page template music frames appear grayed out on individual pages in layouts.

By default, the page templates in the page template sets provided by Dorico Pro include page template music frames assigned to a single page template frame chain. This frame chain is set to display all players in all flows in each layout. These page templates are set to apply to all pages in all layouts in your project by default according to the layout type.

You can input multiple page template music frames on a single page template, and change their size and shape as required. If you want to connect separate page template music frames on the same page, you can assign them to the same frame chain.

Layout music frames

Layout music frames exist only on individual pages in layouts, meaning you can only input and edit layout music frames in individual layouts in the music area. Layout music frames can be assigned to both page template and layout frame chains. However, assigning a layout frame to a page template frame chain does not affect the page template.

You can input multiple layout music frames on a single page, and change their size and shape as required. For example, layout music frames allow you to insert small musical excerpts from a different flow within footnotes or in an index.

If you want to connect separate layout music frames on the same page, you can assign them to the same frame chain.