User manual SIBELIUS SIBELIUS

[. . . ] 2 3 4 5 7 10 Adding Text & Markings Altering the Layout of Your Score . . Excerpts from Sibelius Quick Start Manual by: Robin Hodson, Eastern Region Manager, Sibelius USA robin@sibelius. com, or 201 370 0936 This edition: August 2005 Setting up Sibelius (Mac shortcuts in italics if needed) In this section, you'll ensure that the program is set up the way you like to use it, every time you want to turn it on. 1 MIDI settings This is all testable by going to: Play>Playback and Input devices. Generally speaking, please only choose ONE device to use for playback. [. . . ] Note that these markings appear at the top of systems, not on individual staffs in your score. Repeat Bars, First & Second Time Bars and Rehearsal Marks: For repeat bars, select barline, then go to Create>Barline and choose what you want. For first and second time bars (as with step 9 above), use the Lines menu and draw the first/second time bars into your score. For rehearsal marks, select a barline, then use Control + R (Command + R). These can be copied in the normal way by Alt + Clicking them (Option + click). You can adjust the style of rehearsal marks (letters or numbers etc), by going to Control + Shift + E (Command + Shift + E) and choosing the Rehearsal Marks tab. 5 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Adding Text and Markings 11 Coloring sections of your score: Sibelius allows you to do this. Hit Escape key, then select an object, note, passage (or anything in the score); hit Control + J (Command + J), and choose what color you'd like for your objects. To delete the coloring, select the colored object, and choose Layout>Reset Design (Control + Shift D or Command + Shift D). Symbols & Pictures: you can also insert pictures of anything in your score. Hit Z for the symbols menu, and choose/add them, or go to Create>Graphic, and insert a TIFF file of any other image in your score. These are resizable once on the screen, and we provide users with a folder called "Graphic Files" with many images already created. Type the chord you need, then use the spacebar to advance to the next note, and repeat the steps. There is also a plug-in in Sibelius (Plug-ins>Text) that will automatically calculate chord symbols in your score, as long as there are chords or multiple notes on the score itself. Title, Composer Name, Lyricist Name etc: these can all be obtained by going to Create>Text and choosing the appropriate text style. Fingering Markings, Figured Bass etc: Go to Create>Text>Other Staff Text to find what you need. Editing text, lines and symbols etc: To edit an individual piece of regular text, select it, then go to Window>Properties and choose the tab that says TEXT to edit it. 6 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Altering The Layout Of Your Score Mac shortcuts are given in italics on this sheet. For ALL steps in Sibelius, we recommend hitting the ESCAPE key on the computer's keyboard before and after every action detailed below. 1 Automatic Layout: Sibelius will always try to lay your score out nicely without you having to intervene too much. This is great almost all of the time, but occasionally, you'll want to know how to make manual changes to scores, and also parts. Document set-up screen: hit Control + D (Command + D) to open this important screen where you can make global changes to the paper size, orientation, margins and size of your music. This is always a good place to start, and you can jump from page to page on this screen to see the affect of any changes you make. If you ever need to force a system or page break in your score (particularly for parts, but also occasionally for visual reasons), select the barline where you want the system to change, and hit Enter (Return) for a system break and Control + Enter (Command + Return) for a page break. [. . . ] Use the up or down arrow keys to nudge them all in terms of their vertical position below the stave. To select a line of lyrics, you can also do this by clicking on ONE lyric then hitting Control + Shift + A (Command + Shift + A). To adjust the space between all the staffs in your score, hit Control + Shift + E (Command + Shift + E), and choose the "Staves" tab. You'll see options here for adjusting the distance between all staves and systems, and also an option concerning staff justification (see 17). [. . . ]