Marking Up a Score

If you are starting from this section of the project, you should open the example score called Project 2 and make the 4 Marking up a
score version into the Current version by choosing Review > Versions > Edit Versions. Select this version in the list and click Make
current.

So far, you’ve assembled an excerpt from Elgar’s String Quartet in E minor, Op.83, III. Finale: Allegro molto by creating an empty
score, scanning the individual parts from PDF files and copying them into the score. Now you’re going to add some color and life to it,
by marking the music with dynamics, technique text, tempo markings, slurs, and articulations.

This chapter shows you how to add these various markings, and you’ll observe how they interact with Sibelius’s revolutionary collision
avoidance system, called Magnetic Layout.

Expression Text
In the first of these tutorial projects you learned how to add text dynamics, technique and tempo markings. Using the printout of the
score that you made earlier, let’s add the missing text dynamic marks.

To add dynamic markings:

1 Choose Expression from the Common category in Text > Styles > Style gallery to add text dynamics.

Press Command+E (Mac) or Control+E (Windows) to add Expression text.

2 Hold down Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) as you type to produce bold text dynamics such as f, p, sf or rfz.

To add expressive text:

1 Right-click to see a word menu of terms such as espress., dolce, poco, cresc., and dim.
2 Type any terms not shown in the word menu (such as risoluto, rubato, brillante, or appassionato) and they appear in normal italicized
text.

By copying text dynamics from one staff to another, you’ll find that the process of marking up a score becomes much quicker—you can
use any of the copying methods you learned in the first project. The fastest way is to select the text you want to copy, then Option-click
(Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) where you want it to appear. If you want to copy a text object to its default position—where it appears
when you create it with a note selected—rather than the exact place that your mouse pointer is, Option-Shift-click (Mac) or
Alt-Shift-click (Windows).

Multicopying an Object
Where all the staves in your score have the same dynamic marks (e.g. the ff at the start of bar 43, or the sf at bar 53), you can save time
by multicopying the dynamic across all the staves.

To “mutlicopy” a dynamic across all staves:

1 Create the dynamic marking using Expression text (as above) on the Violin I staff.
2 Select the dynamic marking you want and choose Home > Clipboard > Copy to copy it to the clipboard.

Press Command+C (Mac) or Control+C (Windows) to copy.

3 Press Esc to clear the selection.

4 Make a passage selection around the same bar in the remaining three staves.
5 Choose Home > Clipboard > Paste to paste the dynamic marking to the start of the passage, one copy on each staff.

Press Command+V (Mac) or Control+V (Windows) to paste.

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Marking Up a Score