Transcript Sibelius Workshop

Sibelius Workshop
April 5, 2011
Overview:
• Sibelius “thought” process
• Sibelius shortcuts
• Sibelius handbook and projects (Sibelius
beginners should work on Projects 1 and 2)
• Sibelius scanning/working on our opportunity
grant (non-beginners, we will explore how to
scan and input music from other sources)
Thought Process
• Sibelius - proactive instead of reactive (in
Finale you put in tuplets after you input the
notes, in Sibelius you do it before…in Sibelius
you can input transpositions before you write,
etc.)
• Sibelius is written by musicians for musicians
and should be a great resource for all of us
(once we move past our ‘hangups’ from past
software)
Sibelius Share and
Worksheets
• Sibeliusblog - to share the tricks we
discover, helpful hints, and questions
(see wiki - shortcuts)
• Worksheets (pre-created and create
your own) are a fatastic teaching tool
(see wiki - tools)
Version 6 Improvements
REALLY important shortcuts
• Note input:
• “N” - type n to turn the note input pointer on
or off
• Add interval above or below (1-9 or Shift 1-9)
• Create bar at end (CTRL + B)
• Delete a Bar (CTRL click 1st bar, shift click
last bar, hit delete)
• Cres/decres (H/shift H)
• Triplet (Ctrl 3)
• Slur - (select note and then hit “S”, press
space bar to extend)
More Shortcuts/Improvements
Handbook Projects
Beginners- follow Sibelius projects
starting with #1 the Sibelius Handbook
(found under “Shortcuts” on the wiki)
Advanced Beginners/Intermediates - go
to project #2 and use the 2.2 “scanning”
and 3.6 “arranging” lessons. We will
use these for our opportunity grant.
HOW TO Op. Grant?
1. Open Sibelius
2. Go to the “scanner” which will open
photoscore lite
3. Open photoscore lite and select “Open
PDF” (you will need to scan in music using
a xerox machine or other scanner. There is
a glich with photoscore reading the music
because of a program called ghostwriter
which we need to have installed and Albert
is working on it.) We will use one of the
pdfs I have posted on the wiki “Here Comes
the Sun”
More Op. Grant?
5. Open the “Here Comes the Sun” pdf
6. Ask Photoscore to read each page of “Here
Comes the Sun”.
7. By viewing the original, try to correct any
mistakes in the music that Photoscore did
not read correctly
8. Import the photoscore pdf into sibelius by
going to file and then “send to” Sibelius
9. Choose how you would like to view it
(portrait) and select “choose your own
instruments”
More Op. Grant: In order to do our new
arrangement, we need to do a few measures at a time
to make sure it transfers the way we want it to.
10. Select the first measure of the violin 1 part
and then shift click to select measure 8 of
the cello part.
11. Go to File then NEW to create a new score
that you will be arranging your new version
in. (I am arranging this for string ensemble)
12. Select the instruments you would like in
your new arrangement (select key, time,
etc.)
Op. Grant Continued
• 13. Add measures (Create - Bars- other and
then add a number you want to contend with
ex. 16)
• 14. Select the first measure of the violin 1 part
(click) and then the 8th measure of the bass
part (shift click). Go to “Notes” and select
“arrange.”
• 15. Sibelius will give you several arranging
options - select “string family - double violin 1
in octaves”
Arrange Styles
Op. Grant Continued
• 16. The parts will transfer to the newly
arranged score*(see next slide). You
can then go back and forth between the
trio part and the ensemble part
arranging 8-10 measures at a time.
• 17. When the arrangement is complete,
print the parts and share them with your
students!
Arranged Parts Transferred
Closing Video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96StJ
z-yQhQ