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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 Pro.

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 Pro.

You can find the available notehead designs by choosing Edit > Notehead > [Notehead type] > [Notehead design].

Tip

You can choose to use a pitch-dependent notehead design for all noteheads project-wide on the Notes page in Engrave > Engraving Options.

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