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Why not print this out? Load a printer driver and drag this file onto the
printer icon on the icon bar.
Try doing some of the following things:
ESPRESSIVO
Sibelius 7 has a new and totally unique feature called Espressivo. This
makes Sibelius 7 automatically play with natural-sounding variations in
volume, to produce realistic phrasing. (All this is in addition to it
reading dynamic markings, accents etc. written explicitly in the score.)
All you do is choose the degree of expression from the Play->Espressivo
menu. ('Meccanicco' reads all markings absolutely literally without adding
any further expression at all; 'Molto espressivo' adds lots of expression.)
Try playing the sample music files with different degrees of Espressivo.
STEREO
Each stave can have an independent stereo position (set on the Pan submenu
of the Play menu). Try playing back the sample scores using stereo
headphones.
TEMPO
When playing back, Sibelius 7 reads all sorts of markings from the score,
such as dynamics, articulation marks and metronome marks.
Load the sample music file Solfeggiet, click Select on the metronome mark at
the start, and change the number to 300. Then click on the play icon!
CHANGING SPACING
Select a note or rest and drag it left or right instead of up and down. This
is how you can adjust the spacing if you think you can do it better than
Sibelius 7. See how all sorts of markings shift and stretch to keep the
music correctly notated. If you drag far enough, you can push bars of music
off the page to produce a 'domino effect' right the way through the score.
Alternatively, select a stave and drag it up and down to adjust the vertical
spacing. Again, you can affect the whole score this way.
THICK CHORDS
Create a chord with lots of notes and accidentals, then drag a single
notehead through the chord - and watch all the complex rules being applied
in real time.
CROSSING PARTS
Create some music with two parts on one stave; then try dragging the pitch
of a note so that the parts cross. Try doing the same with two 2-note
chords, each containing an interval of a fifth or so, and drag one of
the chords up or down as a whole (by double-clicking first).
REFORMATTING
Load a score and choose Score->Score format... Change the page details
and/or the stave size, then click on Set. The whole score will be instantly
reformatted to suit.
You can use this to make different versions of the same score, or by making
adjustments to the size of the staves you can force a score to fit into a
desired number of pages. This is very useful if your piano piece takes up
two-and-a-half pages instead of two.
SCREEN MODES
By choosing a high-resolution screen mode - particularly on a RISC PC - you
can fit an enormous amount of music on the screen.
EXTRACTING PARTS
Sibelius 7 will automatically extract, transpose and re-space instrumental
parts from a full score. This saves an enormous amount of time.
Try loading a score such as Jerusalem, and select one of the staves such as
the Clarinet. Then choose Extract part from the Edit menu.
The part will be extracted, transposed, respaced and bar rests will be
grouped together except where they have to be split by a rehearsal mark,
tempo mark etc.
LOTS OF INSTRUMENTS
You can have up to 128 staves, even 128 different instruments. Try
choosing a whole load from the Instruments menu with Adjust (and use Select
for the final one). Click Adjust on the paper to add them.
Notice that Sibelius 7 hardly slows down, however big or complex the score
is.