NoteView lets you make selections for use with the ‘Play Selection’ and ‘Continue Play’ commands, and for the ‘Instrument MIDI Settings’ command. Also see the “Viewing a Score” Help topic for information on how the ‘Look at One Voice’ command affects selecting.

• Select a single musical symbol by clicking on it.  For notes, click on their noteheads, NOT their flags, stems, or accidentals.  Select more than one symbol at a time by holding down the command key while clicking on each additional one.  Clicking a second time on the same symbol (with the command key still down) will deselect it.  As symbols are selected, NoteView highlights them.

• Everything in a section of one or more staves on a single system can be selected by pressing the mouse button at one end of the section you want, then dragging horizontally across the section and vertically across the staves you want. To add anything in other systems, you must use the command key, as described above. Or, select everything from the current selection or “insertion point” (see below) to a given point by shift-clicking. For example, to select the entire piano part in an ensemble that includes piano, click at the beginning of the score on the piano’s top staff, then shift-click at the end of the score on the piano’s bottom staff.

• You can click on an empty space in the score to place an “insertion point.”

• For the ‘Instrument MIDI Settings’ command, click anywhere on a part to make it the part you are setting in the dialog.