SIBELIUS 5  MUSIC NOTATION SOFTWARE RESOURCES : Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Accidentals, Articulations, Barlines, Beams, Clefs, Document Setup, Espressivo, Expression Text, Flexi-time, Hairpins, House Styles, Importing Graphics, Key Signatures, Lines, Live Playback, Lyrics, Manuscript Paper, ManuScript Plug-ins, Metronome Text, Note Input, Optical Spacing, Piano reduction, Repeats, Sibelius 3, Sibelius 2, Sibelius Software Ltd., Sibelius software, Sibelius, Slurs, SoundStage, Staves, Stemless notes, Symbols, Technique Text, Tempo Text, Time Signatures, Transposing, Tremolos, Triplets, Voices

1. October 17, 2007 : Sibelius announces the 5.1 maintanence upgrade with a bunch of feature improvements and bug fixes.
2. June 7, 2007 - Sibelius announces Sibelius 5! Dozens of powerful new features for notation and audio...
3. August 18, 2006 : released a minor update to both the English and German-language versions of Sibelius, bringing them to Sibelius 4.1.5. It includes the following fixes: (1) Fixed a problem that caused Sibelius to slow down during editing in scores using French beams. (2) Fixed a problem that caused Sibelius to crash sometimes after stopping playback when using GPO Sibelius Edition. (3) Fixed a problem whereby lines following text (e.g. lyric lines, or guitar lines) would appear at different distances away from the text at different zoom levels. (4) Fixed a problem that could cause Sibelius to crash upon exiting after editing instrument names.  Sibelius recommends all v4 users download Sibelius 4.1.5. To obtain the update, simply run Sibelius 4 and choose Help > Check For Updates, then follow the instructions in your web browser.
4. August 2, 2006 : Sibelius announced today that it has been acquired by Digidesign, which is the audio division of Avid Technology Inc.
5. December 14, 2005 : Sibelius announces version 4.1 of Sibelius, which offers a number of new features and fixes. Available as a free update by selecting "Check For Updates" in the Help menu of Sibelius 4.0.
6. August 4, 2005. Sibelius announces the new version of Scorch for Mac and Windows, coinciding with the release of Sibelius 4.
7. Sibelius 3.1.5 updater for Mac : this minor update for Sibelius 3.1.3 allows it to use the Sibelius 4 fonts. You only need to install this update if you still wish to continue working with Sibelius 3 on your Mac after installing version 4.
8. Did you just recently purchase Sibelius 3? You may be entitled to a free upgrade to Sibelius 4. Find out here.
9. Bugs fixed in Sibelius 4 - you're dying to know, right?
10. Contact Sibelius - US and European technical support, retail locations and other information.
11. Help Center on the Sibelius website - sign up here to post messages to the Help Center chat page or download files and other resources.
12. Improvements to Sibelius - the official Sibelius policy on programming new features and bug fixes.
13. Sibelius Teaching Tools is a complete pack of educational resources to help you teach music in the classroom with Sibelius.
14. Submit a Score for publication on the SibeliusMusic website.
15. Tips - If you have any useful hints or tips you'd like to share with other Sibelius users, send them to tips@sibelius.com.

1. Sibelius Tech Support Chat Page -
2. Southern California Sibelius Users Group, or SCSUG, is a Sibelius forum/mailing list at Yahoo Groups. The forum and mailing list is moderated by Doug LeBow; and monitored by the SCSUG steering committee, Sibelius Staff, and the general membership.
3. Sibelius User's Group on Yahoo Groups - A discussion list for Sibelius users.
4. Sibelius Forum - includes discussion groups for Beginners, Midi Issues, Photoscore, Scorch, Converting from Finale and more.

SIBELIUS PLUG-INS, COMPANION APPLICATIONS & RESOURCES

1. The Sibelius Help Central plugin page features a number of useful freeware plug-ins for Sibelius 4 and earlier written by Bob Zawalich, Gunnar Hellquist, Michael Kilpatrick, Neil Sands, François Frère and others.
2. dbudde - plugins for the Sibelius notation program for use with specific sample libraries such as those provided by Garritan Libraries and Vienna Symphonic Libraries. The plugins are written in the Manuscript. They work inside Sibelius and are compatible with both PC and Mac platforms.
3. Dolet for Sibelius is a file translation plug-in for Sibelius 2.1 - 4.x by Michael Good of Recordare. Dolet uses a newly created markup language called MusicXML to allow you to import music from SCORE, Overture, Igor Engraver, Finale and a growing list of music notation applications.
4. Francois Frere has written several freeware plug-ins for Sibelius. Copy Substitute Motif will find matching rhythm from motif A (in a selected passage) and will substitute motif B for A. Clarify Rhythm will change any identical notes tied to simplified note value (e.g. if a quarter is tied to the following quarter, they are combined to become a half note). Copy slurs and beams copies the beaming and slurs from a selected rhythmic pattern to all other instances of that rhythmic pattern (not necessarily the same pitches) in the selected passage or the whole score.
5. Garritan Personal Orchestra - A comprehensive, easy-to-use orchestral sample Library for $249.  Extremely high quality collection of orchestral instruments, and a great value. GPO Sibelius Users Page is a resource page on the GPO site, which includes plug-ins written for Sibelius to facilitate dynamics and key switching etc.
6. Peter Hayter - the freeware Pizz / Arco plug-in copies the pattern of text in the first 'n' bars of a selection into the remainder of the selection. The text pasted into the score is pasted as hidden text and an option to add a word such as 'sim.' is given. (more info). Also, if you are a Photoscore user, you may wish to have a look at Peter's Extract PhotoScore Lyrics plug-in.
7. Helpful Hints for composers - This free resource available from Wellington Music Preparation Services is useful for anyone composing or arranging in Sibelius, particularly if you are handing your work off to an engraver or publisher. The 6 page PDF pamphlet contains hints for those who can't be bothered to wade through the User Guide, and who would like to have the essentials laid bare. Email for more info.
8. G7 is the Guitar Tab program from Sibelius: turn tab into notation; create lead sheets with chord symbols, chord diagrams and lyrics; post your songs on the Internet.
9. Danny Manners - musician and composer who has written several of the Sibelius Manuscript plug-ins included with Sibelius.
10. Neuratron - Developers of the advanced music scanning software Photoscore which provides optical score recognition for Mac & Windows, allowing you to scan printed music into your computer. A version of Photoscore comes bundled with Sibelius.
11. David O'Rourke - this seasoned big band arranger and guitarist has contributed his expertise to the evolving Arrange feature in Sibelius, and has written a very informative article, "Writing for the Saxophone Section in Sibelius, using the Arrange Feature", (1.35MB) which is available for download on the Sibelius site.
12. Neil Sands - several useful plug-ins for Sibelius 4 (and earlier) are offered by Neil as freeware. Neil has also authored several plug-ins designed to improve compatibility with Garritan Personal Orchestra in Sibelius.
13. Scorch - the free browser software plug-in which lets you view, play, customize and print Sibelius scores on the Internet. The Scorch plug-in is interactive, meaning you can change which device you use for playback, adjust the tempo, transpose, save and print etc.
14. Sibelius Speaking - Sibelius Speaking delivers the power and flexibility of Sibelius, to the blind user. Sibelius Speaking combines a set of sophisticated scripts for the JAWS for Windows screen reader with tutorial documents and online help. Blind composers or arrangers can now independently transfer their creative musical ideas to the printed page!
15. Simkin - a high-level lightweight embeddable scripting language developed by Simon Whiteside which works with Java™ or C++ and XML, and represents the origins of the ManuScript™ plug-in scripting language.
16. Simkin in Sibelius - detailed explanation of the Sibelius ManuScript™ plug-in scripting language. The ManuScript plug-ins language enables users to easily write scripts for extending Sibelius' functionality.
17. Bob Zawalich has written a number of excellent plug-ins which are included in Sibelius 4 (Check Attachments and Add Simple Harmony are examples) as well as quite a few that are available from the Sibelius Help Central plugin page as freeware. Split Bar, Insert One Symbol, Multirests and Empty Bars and Apply Key Signature are some of our favorites here at RPM.

Sibelius can use nearly any music font, and you can quickly change between them to try different house looks. You can also change any individual text font, or create an entirely new Text Style, to create esoteric notation symbols, for instance. Once you've set up a document with different font definitions, you can save this information to use in other documents by exporting it as a House Style. For more information, see the Sibelius User Manual. - Robert Puff

1. MusiQwik, MusiSync, Bongos, FretQwik, and NoteHedz are free TrueType music fonts created by Robert Allgeyer. Use them in Sibelius, or a word processing document. Robert is also a beta-tester for PDFtoMusic, the revolutionary notation translation program by Myriad software.
2. Music Fonts - a comprehensive list of music fonts by Luc Devroye of the School of Computer Science, McGill University.
3. Finale Fonts - download MakeMusic!'s free Notepad program which contains all the standard FInale fonts, and use these fonts in Sibelius! For a limited time, Mac users can directly download the complete set of Finale fonts via the Finale Macintosh FontPack update. (5.7mb .dmg file.)
4. Bayard-Nizet has developed a set of 12 new music fonts for Mac and PC (both Postscript and True-type versions are available). These fonts cover a variety of notational symbols from common to the more esoteric. Choose from Virtuoso, Charleston, Grupetto, Staccato, Vivace, Espressivo, Koechlin, Fingering, Ars Nova, Flamenco, Oratorio and Timpani.
5. Boulez font - is a freeware music font (suitable for use in Sibelius) provided by Phillip Gaskill that has short square beams instead of the usual curly flags on individual notes of less than a quarter note (crotchet) value. The following downloads are available: Windows .zip, Mac OS9 .sit, and Mac OSX .dmg. The fonts in all the downloads are in the TrueType format. Be sure to read the ReadMe file that is included in each download, for installation instructions. A revised ReadMe taking account of any installation differences necessitated by Sibelius 4 will be included as soon as Sibelius 4 is released.
6. DaFont - thousands of freeware and shareware fonts available for download.
7. Doremi is a shapenote font that has the shapes for the systems used by Aiken, Funk, Walker, The New Harp of Columbia, and The Sacred Harp. Aiken's system is the seven-shape system used by almost all of the modern songbooks using a shapenote system.  Order from Karen E. Willard, Pacific NW Sacred Harp Singers, 15215 Tubbs Road, Buckley, WA 98321; Ph: 360-897-9545. hallock@mindspring.com.
8. ExpressMusic offers three music fonts with a distinctive hand copied look; Ashmusic, Leemusic and Russmusic. There is a corresponding text font available for each of the music font sets. Available for both Mac and PC.
9. FinalFontSolutions by Ansgar Krause - Font solutions for music notation software (used by Breitkopf & Härtel and other publishers). The fonts offer professional design and extremely quick entries. e.g. Figured Bass (Standard and struck-through numbers, accidentals, brackets ...), Piano Fingering (Stacked Numbers and round brackets, silent changes, square brackets for special thumb situations...) and more... For Macintosh and Windows operating systems through XP.
10. GoldenAge music fonts by Donald Rice. Anixter Rice Music Service - Suite 1410-D, 630 9th Avenue New York, NY 10036
11. Handbell notation font by Paul A. McKlveen. Of interest to composers and engravers of Handbell music. Available in TrueType or Postscript for Mac and PC.
12. Identifont - this unique online service allows you to match an existing typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a publication. Most of the major type libraries are supported, including Adobe, Berthold, Bitstream, FontFont, and P22.
13. Matthew Hindson has created some very useful and unique music fonts for both Mac and PC. Clefs, Harp Pedals, Saxophone Fingerings, Recorder Fingerings, and more. Freeware.
14. Microtonal Font - Andrian Pertout has created two versions of this freeware font, with the first, 'Microtonal Font' (TT, PS) originally intended for use in Finale, but which Sibelius users may find useful as well, and the second, 'Microtonal Font Text', (TT, PS) intended for use in any standard word processor. Included are the five standard accidental signs of Western music; four common quarter-tone and three-quarter-tone symbols; twenty-three unique symbols based on Daniélou’s division of the whole-tone; Ali Naqi Vaziri’s notation system, or four accidentals of Persian music; Johnston’s system of notation, which contains twenty-three unique symbols for the notation of just intonation up to the thirty-first harmonic; as well as Fokker’s nine symbols for the notation of thirty-one equal temperament. All these symbols have been incorporated into a 238-character microtonal notation PostScript Type 1 (PS) or TrueType (TT) font, which is fully compatible with the Opus / Maestro fonts used in music notation applications. There is extensive information about these notation systems here.
15. MidiDesign - by Christian Texier (French language website). Six free music fonts: Acoustica, Concreta, Controla, Electronica, Microtona and Sonora. Includes lots of symbols for electronic music, microtonal sharps and flats, percussion etc. The fonts are very good quality, and there also is a free catalog explaining the usage. Available for Mac and PC.
16. Music Font Links - courtesy of the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Links to many resources not on this page.
17. Nor Eddine Bahha has created two different music symbols fonts for use with Sibelius™. These fonts are designed to produce handwritten music in a style similar to that of many jazz charts. NorMusic comes in a set of three fonts: NorMusic, NorText & NorText Extra. BopMusic includes a complete script font for text, chord symbols, and hundreds of symbols for jazz and commercial music. The BopMusic font set includes 7 accompanying fonts to help transform the overall appearance of the music and titles; BopMusic, BopMusic Script, BopMusic Chords, BopMusic Text, BopMusic Special, BopMusic Metronome, and BopMusic Time.
18. Music Teacher Tools - currently feature 7 new TrueType music fonts: MusicEd - rhythms that align, kodaly handsigns, and keyboard tablature. MusicEd Flute - create fingering diagrams for flute and recorder. MusicEd Oboe - create fingering diagrams for oboe. MusicEd Clarinet - create fingering diagrams for clarinet. MusicEd Bassoon - create fingering diagrams for bassoon. MusicEd Sax - create fingering diagrams for sax. MusicEd Brass - create valve and slide position diagrams for brass.
19. Numero font was created by Lars-Anders Calrsson, who works at the "Artisten, Huset for Musik och Teater" in Gothenburg Sweden. Freeware.
20. Realbook Chords, New Realbook Chords & Realbook Title are music fonts (Windows TrueType) in the style of the famous Jazz Real Books for use in Sibelius. Created by Jochen Pietsch. Freeware.
21. Really Loud Fonts by Arun Konanur. Postscript music fonts include the Partita font, which emulates the printed look of the Score music publishing program.
22. Salzedo Harp Font - This excellent font by Bill Duncan is based on Carlos Salzedo's harp notation standard, and also includes a number of squiggles and loops, brackets, l.v. symbols, pedal spelling and circled pedal diagram characters. Several other fonts available for both Mac & PC.
23. Sonata, the venerable music notation font, is available from Adobe.
24. StMeinrad font and its auxiliary, StMeinradAux, contain the symbols necessary to reproduce Gregorian chant. Mac and PC.

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FEATURED RESOURCE:

Sibelius - a comprehensive guide to Sibelius Music Notation Software - Written by Tom Rudolph and Vince Leonard, two proven experts, trainers, and authors in the field of music notation software, this book will be a constant reference for all of your Sibelius questions and needs. Designed for both novice and experienced musicians, composers, producers, and arrangers, it contains a variety of examples, from single-line melodies to complex scores.

FILM SCORING BOOKS

1. On The Track - by Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright
2. Syncronization, From Reel To Reel - by Jeff Rona
3. The Reel World: Scoring for Pictures - by Jeff Rona
4. Complete Guide to Film Scoring - by Richard Davis
5. The Art of Film Music - by George Burt

NOTATION BOOKS

1. Norton Manual of Music Notation - by George Heussenstamm
2. Essential Dictionary of Music Notation - by Tom Gerou & Linda Lusk
3. Music Notation - by Gardner Read
4. Pictographic Score Notation - by Gardner Read
5. 20th-Century Microtonal Notation - by Gardner Read
6. Music Manuscript Preparation - by Mona Mender
7. Preparing Traditional Music Manuscript - by Michael Mohn

ORCHESTRATION BOOKS

1. Artistic Orchestration - by Alan Belkin. This useful resource is the third volume in a free series of online books on musical technique. Other volumes cover Form , Counterpoint , and Harmony.
2. The Guide to Midi Orchestration - by Paul Gilreath
3. The Study of Orchestration - by Samuel Adler. Companion workbook available.
4. The Technique of Orchestration - by Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham
5. Essential Dictionary of Orchestration - by Dave Black, Tom Gerou
6. Orchestration - by Cecil Forsyth and William Balcom
7. Principles of Orchestration - by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

REFERENCE BOOKS AND RESOURCES

1. The Oxford Dictionary of Music - 2nd Ed
2. The Notation of Medieval Music by Carl Parris
3. Sibelius Teaching Tools - a complete pack of educational resources for teaching music in the classroom.

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1. Font Lab - software tools for font design, font conversion and font editing. PC and Mac.
2. Quickeys from CE Software is a Macro tool for Mac or Windows.
3. Page Sender - fax or email large format pages up to 12" x 18" orchestral scores with this great shareware application for Mac OSX. Works with large format hardware faxes such as OMNIFAX G88 and XEROX DL6450. Great for archival of hand written scores. Pages are converted to PDF files, and stand alone PDF files can also be attached to an outgoing fax or email. If you don't have a tabloid printer, large scores are easily reduced to your printer's maximum page size. This is a must have for any professional orchestrator, composer or music copyist on the Mac platform.
4. Transcribe! - shareware to help transcribe recorded music for Windows and Macintosh, including OS-X. Transcribe! includes the ability to slow mp3 audio files down without changing the pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present. Newest version has excellent audio quality.
5. Tunefinder X - Tunefinder is a Melody Index for Mac OSX (soon for Windows). It will show you the name of the composer and composition for any of over 13,000 melodies from classical and popular music when all you know is the melody itself. The database includes themes and melodies from scores of composers, including Arlen, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Bruckner, Chopin, Corelli, Debussy, Donizetti, Dvorak, Elgar, Gershwin, Gluck, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Joplin, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Milhaud, Mozart, Offenbach, Prokofiev, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rodgers, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Smetana, Sousa, Strauss, Strauss, Sullivan, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner, and Weber.

MISC MUSIC NOTATION RELATED WEB RESOURCES

1. Archival Products provides solutions for preservation for colleges and universities, museums, historical societies, art and music libraries, medical schools and government offices as well as for the private conservator.
2. British vs. American Musical Terms - Find a term on the alphabetical list, and click to find its transatlantic equivalent and context. A useful reference for US readers of the Sibelius manual.
3. Description of Paper Weights - explains the evolution of basis weights and sizes, how certain sizes became standard. By Charles P. Klass.
4. Equivalent Weights of Paper - this useful chart cross references Book, Bond, Cover, Bristol, Index and Tag papers by weight in both US pounds and grams per metre. From Dick Stransky.
5. Extremes of Conventional Music Notation - Donald Byrd, of the School of Music at Indiana University has compiled this entertaining and informative resource.
6. Music Engravers - if you are a Sibelius engraver or copyist, you can be listed at no charge in this directory.
7. Music Notation Links - this excellent collection of notation related links includes: Comparisons of Music Notation Applications, Music Braille, Common Music Notation, Shape Note, Tablature, Early Music, Non-Western Notation, Byzantine Music Notation, Kinko Ryu Shakuhachi Notation, Extra-terrestrial music notation.
8. Music Notation Software by Dr. Gordon Callon is a comprehensive list of music notation applications for Macintosh and PC, including Sibelius. Encore, Fermata, Finale, Graphire, Igor Engraver, Nightingale, Opus, Overture, Score, Sibelius, SmartScore and Turandot are just a few of the notation software titles. Many of the listed resources are freeware or shareware.
9. Programming Languages used for music. A list and description for a number of music programming languages, including the Sibelius ManuScript™ language.
10. Vital Presentation Concepts - binding machines especially for printed music parts and scores.
11. West Wales Music - offers a unique Sibelius to MP3 conversion service using high quality synths, samples and real live musicians! Contact Clive Raymond for more info.

MUSIC NOTATION RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

1. MLA - The Music Library Association is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and to all aspects of music materials in libraries. Founded in 1931.
2. The Music Notation Project - An international association exploring alternative music notation systems that improve upon traditional music notation, and providing resources for the wider consideration and use of these alternative notation systems.
3. MOLA - the Major Orchestra Librarian's Association was founded in 1983 primarily to help improve communication among orchestra librarians. The Association's other objectives include educating and assisting librarians, presenting a unified voice in publisher relations and providing education, support, and information to performing arts and other music service organizations.
4. MPA - Music Publisher's Association of the United States.
5. NEDCC - The Northeast Document Conservation Center was founded in 1973 to specialize in the preservation and conservation of paper-based materials, including books, manuscripts, photographs, and art on paper.
6. NMPA - National Music Publisher's Association.

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