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Notation reference
Notes
Notes are shapes that are positioned on staves to indicate musical pitches. Notes are most commonly shown with oval-shaped, round noteheads that are either filled or void depending on their duration, but there are many different designs of noteheads that you can use.
Notehead sets
A notehead set is a collection of related noteheads that together allow you to represent all the different noteheads required for the different durations used in music notation.
Pitch-dependent notehead set designs
Pitch-dependent notehead sets use different notehead designs or different notehead colors depending on the pitch of notes. There are a number of different pitch-dependent notehead sets available in Dorico for iPad.

Pitch-dependent notehead set designs

Pitch-dependent notehead sets use different notehead designs or different notehead colors depending on the pitch of notes. There are a number of different pitch-dependent notehead sets available in Dorico for iPad.

You can find the available notehead designs by selecting at least one note, then clicking Application Menu in the secondary toolbar and choosing Notehead > [Notehead type or design] > [Notehead design].

Table 1. Scale degree noteheads
Notehead set design	Notehead set name
	Aikin 7-shape Noteheads
	Funk 7-shape Noteheads
	Walker 4-shape Noteheads
	Walker 7-shape Noteheads

Table 2. Pitched noteheads
Notehead set design	Notehead set name
	Figurenotes© Noteheads
	Pitch Name Noteheads