![]() ![]() ![]() Sibelius helps drive the composing process while ensuring your score is accurate, legible, and beautiful. CreateĬompose rich, detailed scores with easy-to-use music notation tools. It’s the fastest, smartest way to write music. On the right side you find a lot of options to fine tune the slurs’ position and give a different default position when working with vocal staves.From concert halls to scoring stages, more composers, arrangers, copyists, and engravers use Sibelius than any other tool. On the left side of this panel choose Lines. Here you can change the slurs’ direction, the distance to note-head and stems and the distance to articulations, plus you can adjust the shape of the slurs to your own liking. Go to menu House Stye/Engraving Rules and open the Slurs panel. But if you want to make some extra adjustments still, have a look at… This is pretty much all you need to know when creating slurs according to the traditional engraving rules in Sibelius. If a grace note precedes an interval or chord, the slur should follow the direction of resolution (up or down): After that correct the slur position by dragging the handles. To get the corrected version above, select the lower slur, Flip it with theEdit/flip command (shortcut x) and turn off magnetic layout. Sibelius however, will place automatically the slur above the grace-note group and the result will look like this: Grace notes are always stemmed up unless there are 2 voices, and the slur should be placed on the usual note-head side. To switch back to normal note, hit the period key again. ![]() To create grace-notes, select the place where you want to enter them and hit the “period” (.) key, choose the duration and enter the grace notes. On a grand staff when there is not enough space between the staves, the slur can be placed outside the staff: With more voices on a single staff, every voice gets their own slur: When the slur connects to a stem, connect it mid-stem: Similarly, if a slur ends on a tied note, the slur should end on the last of the tied notes: ![]() When a slur starts on a tied note, the slur should start at the first of the notes that are tied together. When there is a long passage that should be played legato and the note-heads are notated in both directions, the slur should always placed over: Now the slur is placed for both notes on the note-head side: I rather keep the slur on the note-head side though, so I select the 1 st note and use the Edit/flip command (shortcut x) that will flip the note. Sometimes you end up with a notation like this: Sibelius places the slur according to engraving rules, which means it will always try to put the slur on the note-head side, there are some practical exceptions though. You can expand the slur over more notes by hitting space or contract it over lesser notes with Shift+Space. To create a slur, select a note and type s. To adjust the slur handles and thereby its form, select a handle and drag or use the arrow keys. The slur has 6 handles where you can adjust it the shape: the left end of the slur, the left-hand curve point, the bottom middle of the slur, the top middle of the slur, the right-hand curve point, and the right end of the slur. It’s most of the time not necessary to adjust a tie, but it’s good to know how to do this for the slur. These are used to adjust the way they look. If you look closely you can see that there are little dots connected by a line around the slur and the tie. A slur is used to create a legato way of playing of the notes under the slur. A tie is used to connect two notes on the same pitch and adding up their values. There is a big difference between the slur and the tie. In vocal music, a slur indicates singing a melisma. In piano music, a slur indicates legato playing. In music for strings, a slur indicates bowing. In music for wood and brass, a slur mostly indicates breathing. In Sibelius select View/Handles so you can see the elements I am going to talk about in this newsletter.ĭifferent instruments, different slur-meanings ![]()
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