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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Welcome to the second update for _Summer 2023,_ this time live from Belgrade, Serbia! Before moving on with the news, I would like to offer my public apology to the several thousands of people who watched the excerpt of
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”
Sibelius Tutorials – Episode 1 D
How to create trills with accidentals PART 4 – BONUS MATERIAL: trills with different intervals In the first part of this tutorial, I showed you an alternative way of notating trills that has been getting very popular in the last few decades. It consists of only showing an ordinary trill line and, in smaller size,Continue reading “Sibelius Tutorials – Episode 1 D”
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