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Sibelius BlogAnother useful posting.
Dave
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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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