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.
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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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