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🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Edit Chord Symbol Appearances in Dorico”…
🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Edit Chord Symbols in Dorico”…
The Chord Symbols feature was introduced in Dorico 1.1
more >> “How to Edit Chord Symbols in Dorico | Engrave Mode”
Q: How can I enter a bar rest for a specific voice in Sibelius?
For instance, when I write music in two voices, in the event that the first voice pauses, bar rests are automatically notated above the second voice, should it continue:
Conversely, this is not the case.
A: Locate the bar rest on the second Keypad layout, which can be used during note input to enter whole rests in a specific voice…
… or to turn existing notes or rests into a bar rest.
A German version of this quick tip („Ganztaktpausen erstellen in Sibelius”) is available here.
Karin Vadon is a classically trained musician, singer-songwriter and music copyist from Vienna, Austria who authors a german-language music notation blog for Sibelius and Dorico users.
🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Input Chord Symbols in Dorico”…
The Chord Symbols feature was introduced in Dorico 1.1
I recently needed to figure out ways to represent dotted notes so they would appear without a dot, and in the process, I found a number of ways to break down dotted notes into smaller notes. You may never need to do what I had to do, but someday one of these techniques may turn out to be useful.
more >> “Deconstructing the Rhythm Dot – The Mathematics of Dotted Notes”
🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Work with Tokens in Dorico”…
Empty”placeholder” pages are sometimes useful to define the start of a new event, scene or movement in a score, or to facilitate good page turns.
To insert one or more blank pages, select the barline which precedes where you would like one or more blank pages to be inserted.
Now, choose the “Special Page Break” option from the Breaks group on the Layout tab:
(Prior to Sibelius 7 use Layout > Break > Special Page Breaks…)
Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut CMND-SHIFT-RETURN (Mac) or CNTRL-SHIFT-RETURN (Windows).
This opens up to the Special Page Break dialog, where you can specify how many pages you wish to insert.
Special Page Breaks apply specifically to the current part (or score) view. If you have blank pages that you would like to appear globally in the score and parts, create the break in the score, and check “Keep Other Special Page Breaks” in Multi Part Appearance.
Note: Special Page Breaks are only available in the Full version of Sibelius (now called Sibelius Ultimate).
A German version of this post („Leere Seiten einfügen in Sibelius”) is available here.
Karin Vadon is a classically trained musician, singer-songwriter and music copyist from Vienna, Austria who authors a german-language music notation blog for Sibelius and Dorico users.