User manual SIBELIUS SIBELIUS 1.4

[. . . ] Demo User Guide Edition 1. 4 Edition 1. 4 November 2000 Written by Ben Finn & Daniel Spreadbury. Sibelius copyright © Sibelius Software Ltd 1987-2000 PhotoScore Lite plug-in copyright © Neuratron Software 1997-2000 SIMKIN interpreter and dialog box editor (used by ManuScript language) copyright © Simon Whiteside 1997 Mac HTML Viewer licensed by kind permission of Sassafras Software Inc. (www. sassafras. com) Sibelius Demo User Guide copyright © Sibelius Software Ltd 2000 Published by Sibelius Software Ltd, 66-68 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1LA, UK All rights reserved. Other than printing a copy for use with the Sibelius demo, this User Guide may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means ­ electronic, recording, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise ­ in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the publisher. Although every care has been taken in the preparation of this User Guide, neither the publisher nor the authors can take responsibility for any damage arising from any errors or omissions it may contain. [. . . ] Type P to play the score from the beginning ­ Sibelius makes a very convincing performance, even though no dynamics are marked in the score. Then make Sibelius play the same score literally as written, by changing the Espressivo menu setting to Meccanico (`mechanical'), Swing to Straight, and Reverb to Dead. Hear the difference? 18 Starting a new score Starting a new score To start a new score, click the New icon on the toolbar, or type XN or Ctrl+N. Manuscript paper This dialog box lists many types of manuscript paper in alphabetical order. Just like selecting real manuscript paper in a store, you can choose between different shapes and sizes, or pick paper which is preprinted with standard groups of instruments. (Letter and Tabloid are standard US paper sizes, A4 and A3 are standard European sizes. ) A page of white blank paper appears, with a dialog box headed Instruments. Creating instruments You can create new instruments whenever you like ­ you don't need to decide them all at the start ­ but you do have to pick at least one instrument initially otherwise you'll have nothing to write music for!Click the different types of instruments in the Section list at the left. About 150 instruments are provided, including some fairly obscure ones such as Birdsong and Ondes Martenot, but don't worry if you can't find a particularly unusual instrument ­ Sibelius also lets you design your own. The instruments are listed in the standard order in which they would appear in a score, but again you can customize the order if you want to. Let's take a classical music example, and pick a string quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola and Cello): · Click Strings at the bottom of the Section list, to see all the stringed instruments · Double-click on each of the instruments in turn to select them and add them to the Instruments to create list on the right-hand side of the dialog box 19 Sibelius Demo User Guide · Click Create. Staves for the four instruments will appear instantly, with the correct names, clefs, and a few empty bars ready for you to start writing music in: To enable you to see the next steps more clearly, zoom out to 25% so you can see the whole page very small. Creating key and time signatures You can quickly create a key signature by typing K, which displays the Key Signature dialog box. The mouse pointer turns blue ­ click in the score to place the key signature. Time signatures are entered in the same way: just type T to display the Time Signature dialog box, select the time signature you want, click Create, and click in the score. 20 Starting a new score Adding bars Type XB or Ctrl+B to add a bar at the end of the score. While zoomed out to 25%, hold down XB or Ctrl+B and watch Sibelius create lots of bars and format them onto new pages. Reformatting As you add bars and notes the whole score is instantly reformatted: the spacing of the existing music is adjusted using complex rules, and new pages are added for you when necessary. You don't need to tell Sibelius to `add a page' ­ just add more bars!You can mostly leave the layout up to Sibelius, though you can adjust it yourself by dragging staves, notes and barlines, or using the Layout menu. 21 Sibelius Demo User Guide Creating notes Click a note-value on the `keypad' at the bottom right of the window, then click on a staff to input the note at the pitch where you click. The keypad button stays pressed down so you can click more notes onto the staff. You can also type the letters A to G to touch-type pitches; use X-arrow (Mac) or Ctrl+arrow (Windows) to change octave. To see more exotic sets of symbols, click the five small buttons near the top of the keypad, below the buttons marked 1 2 3 4 (which are used to input into more than one voice on the same staff), or use the function keys (F8 to F12) to switch between the different `layouts'. [. . . ] Creating other objects You can create any object other than notes (e. g. text, clefs, slurs) from the Create menu (which you can also get using Control-click on Mac or by clicking the right mouse button on Windows). Type space to extend the slur a note at a time and Shift-space to retract it again; drag the middle of the slur to adjust its shape, or type X to flip it vertically. Similarly, H creates a crescendo hairpin, and Shift+H creates a diminuendo, and you can also extend or retract them with space and Shift-space respectively. [. . . ]