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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.
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- Try doing some of the following things:
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- 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.)
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- 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.)
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- Try playing the sample music files with different degrees of Espressivo.
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- 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.
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- TEMPO
- When playing back, Sibelius 7 reads all sorts of markings from the score,
- such as dynamics, articulation marks and metronome marks.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- Alternatively, select a stave and drag it up and down to adjust the vertical
- spacing. Again, you can affect the whole score this way.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- EXTRACTING PARTS
- Sibelius 7 will automatically extract, transpose and re-space instrumental
- parts from a full score. This saves an enormous amount of time.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Notice that Sibelius 7 hardly slows down, however big or complex the score
- is.
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