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      Four types of selection in Sibelius 

      Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:14 AM PST


       
      Three of the four types of selection: multiple, passage, and system 
passage

      A couple of days ago, I wrote that one of the axioms of efficient use of 
Sibelius is: â??Copy, donâ??t reinput.â?? With that in mind, I thought it was 
worth reinforcing one of the corollaries of that axiom, concerning the four 
types of selection in Sibelius.

      Those four types are as follows: single selection, where only one object 
(e.g. a note, or a bit of text) is selected; multiple selection, where more 
than one object is selected, and they appear highlighted in the score in their 
voice or selection colour; passage selection, where a continuous range of music 
and other objects attached to one or more staves is selected, and surrounded by 
a light blue box; and system passage selection, where a continuous range of 
music and other objects across all staves in the system is selected, and 
surrounded by a double purple box.

      To make the best use of the different types of selection, remember the 
following simple rule:

        Multiple selections merge, passage selections overwrite, and system 
passage selections insert. 

      Expanding on this a little:

        a.. When you paste a multiple selection, it will be merged with 
whatever is already there, overwriting notes in the same voice but otherwise 
doing its best to fit in to the existing material at its destination. This 
means multiple selections are very good, for example, for pasting objects like 
dynamics onto existing music, or to paste music in one voice into an existing 
passage using another. 
        b.. When you paste a passage selection, the destination music is 
completely overwritten. This is the normal kind of copy and paste operation you 
will do. Just remember that a regular passage selection, even one that spans 
all staves, wonâ??t include system-attached objects like time signatures, key 
signatures, rehearsal marks, Tempo text, and the like. 
        c.. When you paste a system passage selection, new bars are inserted at 
the point you pasted. This kind of copy and paste operation is most useful for 
inserting whole chunks of music, and naturally a system passage selection will 
include system objects like time signatures, key signatures and so on that are 
not included when copying a regular passage selection. 
      If you remember this simple rule and apply it well, you will cut hours 
off your score preparation time, by making efficient use of the copy and paste 
methods that Sibelius provides.

      Related posts:
        a.. Getting selective with filters
        b.. Multicopy, multicopy, multicopyâ?¦
        c.. Creating composite symbols in Sibelius
        d.. How to enlarge symbols in Sibelius
        e.. Flow lyrics into Sibelius in a single step
        f.. Composer Lev Zhurbin shares his laptop tips for Sibelius
        g.. Working with lyric hyphens
        h.. Traditional lyrics beaming and slurs on melismas
        i.. Adding extra lines of lyrics
        j.. Making lyrics something to sing about



     
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