Valerio Dorico (Brescia, sixteenth century - Rome, late sixteenth century) was an Italian typographer. Over a period of sixteen years (1539–1555) he printed numerous editions, pioneering the use of a single impression printing process first developed in England and France. He worked primarily for the Roman Academy with his brother Ludovico Dorico. Dorico printed first editions of sacred music by

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de V ...

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Giovanni Animuccia Giovanni Animuccia ( – March 1571)Lockwood and O’Regan, ''Animuccia, Giovanni,'' Grove Music Online. was an Italian composer of the Renaissance who was involved in the heart of Rome's liturgical musical life. He was one of Giovanni Pier ...

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scorewriter A scorewriter, or music notation program is software for creating, editing and printing sheet music. A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text, in that they typically provide flexible editing and automatic layout, and p ...

Dorico Dorico () is scoring software for macOS, Windows and iPadOS.Cliff, Tony. (1 December 2019)Tech Reviews: Dorico Pro 3 ''Music Teacher Magazine''. Archived 7 June 2021: Wayback Machine. It is one of the three leading professional-level music nota ...

is named in his honor.

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IMSLP The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public domain, public-domain sheet music, music scores. The project use ...

Italian typographers and type designers Renaissance music printers 15th-century Italian businesspeople Year of birth missing Year of death missing 15th-century Italian artists {{Italy-artist-stub