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. [. . . ] 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. Select the key signature you want and click Create. 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. Input several notes, one above the other, to make a chord. To change note-value, click a different note on the keypad. 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'. To stop creating notes, press Esc to deselect all the keypad buttons. The keypad on the screen corresponds to the numeric keypad at the right of your computer keyboard. Type these keys in preference to using the mouse, as it's much quicker. You can choose several keys together (but type the note-value first), e. g. ­ / + (Windows) to get a dotted quarter-note (crotchet) with a tenuto, accent and tie. Step-time input Step-time is probably the quickest way to input accurately. If you have a MIDI keyboard, select a rest or note to start at, choose a note-value on the keypad, then play notes and chords on the keyboard. (Make sure the arrow is blue before inputting notes ­ this shows that you've chosen a note-value. ) If the next note has a different note-value, articulation, etc. , change this on the keypad before you play the note. [. . . ] Click the text style you want, then click in the score and start typing. To input dynamics, choose Create Z Text Z Expression, then click in your score where you want the text to appear. Use Control-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) to get a menu of useful words and special characters, and click on the desired dynamic to enter it in your score. You can input dynamics more quickly by typing XE or Ctrl+E, click in your score, and type, e. g. [. . . ]