The Cadorin vocabulary

The words Cadorin uses for your music.

These names describe the things Cadorin can show, develop, preserve, and return to. The Manuscript remains the source of truth for what you have authored.

The music you return to

Home

Return to the Room’s stable overview.

Room

The composition and workspace that owns the music.

Manuscript

Music deliberately authored into the current Passage.

Phrase

A smaller retained musical thought available for reuse.

Passage

A bounded piece of authored music under development.

Arrangement

The deliberate order of placed Passages.

The questions and possibilities

Chords

Harmony or compatible chord possibilities for the exact source.

Melody

Source-bound melodic possibilities.

Continue

Possibilities that may follow the exact source.

Practice

Playable work grounded in the exact source.

Understand

A read-only explanation of the exact source.

Temporary idea

Reversible working material that is not yet authored or retained.

The actions that change or preserve it

Use

Deliberately author an exact supported result.

Keep

Durably retain a chosen result for later return.

Place

Put authored material at an explicit manuscript or Arrangement destination.

Dismiss

Remove temporary material without changing authored music.

Undo

Restore the prior supported manuscript state.

Navigation and playback

Return

Navigate back to the named source without undoing authored work.

Previous

Move to the previous item in the current sequence.

Next

Move to the next item in the current sequence.

Show

Reveal detail in place.

Hide

Conceal detail in place.

Drag

Move or place the labelled musical object by dragging.

Play

Start musical playback.

Pause

Pause musical playback.