Welcome back! Today we continue our journey through the notational conventions that allow you to properly engrave an opera, specifically focused on doing this in Sibelius.
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How to engrave an Opera (in Sibelius) – Ep. 6
Last week, we completed all that is needed to know about setting up your opera score’s staves. Today, we delve deep into instrument-specific conventions that may be unique to opera, but may also apply to other big symphonic contexts. Let’s get started.
How to engrave an Opera (in Sibelius) – Ep. 5
Now that we have our full score set up, we can move forward and dive deep into what _notational conventions_ should be respected when engraving an opera.
How to engrave an Opera (in Sibelius)
What would be an opera without solo singers? Well, it would just be a massive symphony, though also this statement could be discussed at length. There are special conventions on how to prepare singers’ staves, and they are like nothing I had ever encountered before. This is because there is an extra component that a symphony doesn’t have: the stage!
How to engrave an Opera (in Sibelius) – Ep. 3
Episode 3 – First Steps (cont’d) Instruments set-up (Part 2) Percussion In an ideal world, you will know beforehand how many instruments and players your opera will need, but let’s be realistic: when will that happen? Let’s once more play safe by respecting one single rule: the timpanist is not a percussionist! That is, giveContinue reading “How to engrave an Opera (in Sibelius) – Ep. 3”
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