Questions tagged [sibelius]
For questions related to the music notation software developed by Avid Technology. Questions may also necessitate the [notation] and/or [engraving] tags. Note that this tag is not intended for questions about the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) - use the tag [composers] instead.
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Lilypond to MusicXML to Sibelius
Is there any reliable program to convert a fully-fledge piece in Lilypond format to MusicXML, such that Sibelius can read the original Lilypond notation?
Basically, I need to edit a score which is ...
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How to insert cautionary key signature before repeat mark using Sibelius 7
I'm arranging wind parts for the following song (excerpt below). This is the end of a repeated section that starts in D major and changes to F major halfway through. So, the repeat mark at the end of ...
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What is the idea of "transposing by perfect unison"?
As far as I understand, a "perfect unison" refer to two notes sounding the same pitch. Why both MuseScore and Sibelius 7 (I work with these two programs) offer a feature to transpose the up or down by ...
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Notating for the pianist to lift the pedal slowly?
So in various sections of a piece I want the pianist to lift the pedal slower than usual, achieving an interesting effects as the harmonics fade. In some areas the pedal lift might be slower or faster,...
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When to abide by Sibelius and not
In the climax of a piece I'm arranging, I want a Bb trumpet to go up to the C two 8ves above Middle C (concert pitch). This is the highest note in the piece. When I write this in Sibelius, I get a ...
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Is a tie needed into a second-time bar?
When I have a tie into a 1st-time-bar, and want to similarly tie into a 2nd-time-bar, I usually show the "end" of the tie onto the note at the beginning of the 2nd-time-bar. Is this ...
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Sibelius midi export makes things complex
I have a simple song that when I export to midi becomes very complex. Could someone tell me what is causing Sibelius to do this?
Oriignal:
Midi Export:
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Migrating from commercial music notation software to free alternative
A friend of mine dislikes composing music on the commercial software he owns (Si..us). The main reason is that he is into modern, avant-garde music and the notation on his current system is just not ...
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Notating tenor vocal parts with 8va G-clef in Sibelius 6
I might be slightly off-topic here, but this is the closest StackExchange site I could find to my topic, so here goes...
I recieved a sibelius file with a choir arrangement from a friend. Now, I want ...
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Where do I put this expression marking?
So in this passage (for piano) I have a pianissimo part in the right hand that follows the left hand. I want the pianist to treat the notes in the right hand 'like distant resonance' (or something ...
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Best way to score melodic piano lines across both hands
Having some trouble understanding the best way to score piano when a melodic pattern is played across both hands...
Here is the first bar of the section in question, arranged on separate staves, and ...
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Adding 8va line (both high or low) in Sibelius 7 doesn't play back
I'm working with Sibelius 7 and even though I'm adding 8va lines at some parts of my score, when playing it back I get the same sound I should be getting if I didn't have them.
Any ideas why this ...
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How to convert Sibelius score to MusiXTeX?
I want to create images of bars of notated music for use in video. Is there a way to write the score on Sibelius and then export this to some Python library in order to better create the images for ...
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How to enter overlapping notes in Sibelius 7
I can't manage to find a way to enter overlapping notes in Sibelius 7.
Any help?
By overlapping notes I mean notes from other voices that have a longer duration than others which are placed at the ...
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Half step mordent in Sibelius
Is there a way I can do the mordent that is shown in the pictures below in Sibelius? When I try to just put a sharp sign below the mordent, it doesn't play it correctly.
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Short way to indicate pedaling every bar
I am writing a piano score in Sibelius, and I need to hold and lift the pedal every bar. But writing it explicitly makes the score heavy so I need a quick notation that means the same thing.
Here I ...
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How to change bass guitar tuning in Sibelius 8?
How can I change my bass guitar tuning? In this case I want to have a whole step down standard tuning (DGCFAD) (for 4 string bass it should be DGCF). How can I do it?
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Creating a symbol to repeat the previous n bars in Sibelius
Specifically, I'm trying to create a symbol that, similar to the 'repeat the previous 4 bars' symbol, will repeat the previous n bars (6 in this example). I've tried duplicating the symbol and editing ...
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How many bars can a clarinet sustain?
Apologies if the question is too silly (my profile might explain why I don't know the answer).
I am writing a piece and at some point I want a clarinet to hold a note until the performer runs out of ...
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Sibelius Notation for Slightly Changed Repeat Passage
I want to recreate a repeated section of music in Sibelius which I found in an online score. Here is a screenshot of the relevant bar from the repeated passage:
The passage is repeated three times, ...
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How to beam multiple voices correctly
I don't want to change the clef at the top, so I wrote the first group of notes in the bottom, but I also want the first notes (chord) of the bar to be in the second voice. But in this case, it ...
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How to write guitar tremolo with Sibelius software?
I'm trying to create the music sheet of "Recuerdos de La Alhambra" with Sibelius music notation software.
How to create tremolos in Sibelius?
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Drum chart standards
I'm currently notating a drum chart in Sibelius. The song is "Best to You" by Blood Orange. It's an R&B/Electropop/Afrobeat song. I am not a drummer, and I have only just figured out ...
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How to notate piano cross-staff glissando with pedal line?
Consider the following screenshot:
As you can see, the piece ends with an arpeggio that starts on the bass staff and ends on the treble staff. As I understand it, the best and clearest way to notate ...
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Sibelius seven - adjusting the length of one bar/measure
I want to shorten the length of the final bar in the line, without any of the other bars moving. Is this possible?
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Timpani & Conga: Doit, Fall or is it something else and how is it performed?
I've been following and studying a particular orchestra score. I've never written for or played the Timpani or Conga before.
In the image below I see a Doit (on the Timpani) and a Fall (on the Conga)....
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What is *cuivre* for a trumpet
Cuivre in French means copper, I think.
In music it seems to be the name of the family of Brass instruments. Correct me in this if it is wrong.
In Sibelius, the trumpet has a property (regulated by ...
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How can I share Sibelius templates across devices?
I'm using Sibelius Ultimate on Mac. In the latest version it is really easy to set up default templates by Exporting files as Manuscript Paper. It then stores these template files in a Manuscript ...
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Easiest way to turn permutations into Sibelius notation
Total dummy (non-programmer) question here.
There are permutations like these, for example:
(n=9, r=2) {1,2} {1,3} {1,4} {1,5} {1,6} {1,7} {1,8} {1,9} {2,1} {2,3} {2,4}
{2,5} {2,6} {2,7} {2,8} {2,9}...
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Repeated legato notes too quiet in Sibelius using EastWest Hollywood Orchestra libraries
I’m trying out EastWest/Quantum Leap’s Hollywood Orchestra series for the first time, specifically the Strings, Brass and Woodwinds libraries (all Gold). I use them in Sibelius using these sound set ...
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How do I make Sibelius stop, not pause (i.e. always start from the same place at playback)? [closed]
As per the title, pressing spacebar when playing pauses, it doesn't stop like it would in a DAW.
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How to select custom bars using Sibelius?
How could every bar be selected, excluding every 5th bar? I only know how to select from bar __ to bar __ (Select > Select bars) but not how to make a custom selection. Is it possible for this type of ...
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Chord symbols in staff in Sibelius
When I write guitar parts in Sibelius I currently use a slash notation (4 slashes with no stems in each measure and chord symbols above staff), but I want to make it even simpler for my guitarist and ...
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How to change the slot (channel) in a mixer?
How to change the slot (channel) of an instrument in a mixer in Sibelius? Now this field is inactive, it cannot be changed. Also, it changes automatically for all tracks when you select an instrument. ...
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Sibelius is playing the acciaccatura differently
I'm writing a piece in swing feel. When I use the grace note, Sibelius plays it differently than how I think it should sound but when I notate the same thing using a dotted 32nd, it plays the same ...
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Cross-staff conflict
How can I achieve to have tied notes from the previous measure and cross-staff situation, when the notes which are in the Bass clef, technically in the Treble clef? No program (I tried Sibelius and ...
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Photoscore rhythm problems
Photoscore is having trouble importing Enough by Chris Tomlin into Sibelius for me. It is giving rhythm errors that look like this:
"This score contains bars that do not add up to the time signature ...
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What is the term in theory/notation when you have notes played over a held note in the same hand?
eg. Liebestraum no. 3, right hand, bars 1 and 2.
also Schubert Impromptu op. 90 no. 3
Lastly, any idea how this is achieved in Sibelius/Musescore?
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Sibelius voices/ offset noteheads
How is it possible to offset a note in a second or third voice that shares a stem direction and is more than the interval of a second apart, but that must display each stem separately?
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Bar width in Sibelius
I'm using Sibelius 7.5 and I want to have some lines with 4 measures and others with 3 measures. When I try to do this, I end up with both lines having the same width. I would like to the 3 measure ...
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Second set of Sibelius 7 lyrics with repeat bar to midi?
In music sometimes a line is repeated with the repeat bar ||: :||. I'm using Sibelius and it doesn't seem to understand the repeat bar when it creates midi's with lyrics. It jumbles the text of the ...
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How to overlap notes from different voices to share note heads?
Voice 1 accentuates the melody that's woven through the 8th-note pattern. I want the notes on the top staff the 'blend' together. I remember this being possible in older Sibelius versions, but I ...
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difference between solid crescendo hairpin, dotted and dashed crec hairpins?
I noticed music software sibelius has 3 different types of hairpins when it comes to crescendos. Solid line, dotted and dashed. What is the difference between the 3?
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Weird Glitch in Sibelius: violin pizz makes my clarinet and oboe parts sound like flute
Pretty much what it says on the tin. I have been orchestrating a piece for symphony orchestra and, whenever I put "pizz." in the violin I part, all of the sudden, my clarinet part is using ...
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Selecting bars vertically in Sibelius
I have made a layout of auto system breaks in Sibelius by every 7 bars (layout-> breaks-> auto breaks). Now I want to select bars vertically, but if I press shift key and select bars by column, it ...
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Sibelius 7 overlapping notes hiding each other
Using Sibelius 7 how do I resolve overlapping notes so both parts can be read. For example in a two stave score for SATB, sopranos have a dotted minim and one crotchet in a bar, altos have four ...
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Second line of first verse in Sibelius
Is there any quick way to select the second line of the first verse in Sibelius 7? I'm having to go through the output of photoscore by hand and select and move that line to the second verse place for ...
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How does one create a style sheet for Sibelius?
I am new here, and pretty new to Sibelius. I am interested in creating my own individual style sheet for Sibelius, specifically to have the Composer and Lyricist BOTH right justified, header/title/...
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How to fix the drum part's staff in the correct form in Sibelius?
I wrote the drum part in DAW, exported the midi and imported it to Sibelius. It recognized this track in this form:
How can I quickly transform it into the correct form and remove these polyphony?
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In Sibelius ManuScript language example, why will the Run method not run?
I am learning to write Sibelius plug-ins by working my way through the ManuScript Language Reference (see File > Plug-ins > ManuScript Language Reference). Unlike other scripting languages I use ...
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