Creating music flashcards with Sibelius
Katie Wardrobe (@katiesw1 on Twitter) is a wonderful educator and a music technology expert based in Australia. She worked for Sibelius for a while, before striking out on her own…
Assassin’s Creed: Lineage scored in Sibelius
Assassin's Creed II is sure to be one of the biggest video games of the 2009 holiday season: such a big release, in fact, that it is being accompanied by…
Sibelius 6.1 update now available
I'm delighted to announce that a free update to Sibelius 6.1 is now available, and existing Sibelius 6 users can update to the latest version to get a number of…
Learning more advanced cut-away score techniques
This tutorial builds on some of the techniques first introduced in Creating cut-away or scrapbook scores and addresses some problems with scores containing 4 or more instrumental groups. It assumes…
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Professor on Sibelius 6
Professor Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, an august institution which I was privileged to visit about eighteen months…
Sibelius and Virtual Drumline masterclass in Katy, TX
If you happen to be located in the Houston area, you may be interested to know that expert Sibelius and Tapspace Virtual Drumline user Bryan Harmsen of Visaudio Designs will…
Fun with nested tuplets
Sibelius user Kyle Gann is, in his own words, a "composer, musicologist, writer, educator", which means that he must always be very busy! On his ArtsJournal blog, PostClassic, he writes…
Transformations plug-ins in Sibelius 6 help develop ideas
Sibelius 6 is so chock-full of new features that it's easy for some to be overlooked (hence my little things series), but thanks to my pal, the lovely and talented James…
Plucked from Nowhere competition winner announced
Back in July I posted about an exciting composition competition entitled Plucked from Nowhere. To win, entrants had to write a compelling new work for harp and chamber orchestra. Today,…
Alexis Cuadrado’s Noneto Ibérico scored in Sibelius, premieres in New York
Alexis Cuadrado is a double bassist, composer, and founder of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground. His latest commission is a new nine-movement work for jazz nonet called Noneto Ibérico, which will…
