Info-Mac 4/Info_Mac IV CD-ROM (Pacific HiTech Inc.)(August 1994).iso/Sound/Utilities/Nightingale 1.4 Demo Folder/Nightingale Essentials/Nightingale Help/Nightingale Help.rsrc/TEXT_112_Selecting.txt

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• Select a single musical symbol by clicking on it with the selection arrow from the palette.  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, Nightingale 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.

• When you have the selection arrow chosen, you can click on an empty space in the score to place an “insertion point.” If you have previously copied music to the Clipboard, you can now Paste it where the insertion point is, or you can Continue Play, Record or Step Record there.

• You can select NOTES AND RESTS ONLY with the “Threader” tool (the pointing finger icon in the palette).  While pressing the mouse button, move the cursor around: every note or rest “touched” by the cursor will become selected. Touching a note/rest a second time will deselect it. (For example, this can be useful with “Play”, to hear only some of the notes in a passage. It’s also useful with the “QuickChange” and “Set Duration” commands, for example to select some notes you’ve played in and assign them to another voice or staff, or to adjust their velocities or durations.)