Of Note was an independent music-notation publication — practical tips & tutorials by experts — founded by the late Robert Puff and published from 2011 to 2022. Its archive is preserved here, as its own section of Scoring Notes, in tribute to Puff and its contributors.
Of Note ran from 2011 to 2022 as a home for deep, practical notation craft across Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico. It was founded and stewarded by the late Robert Puff, whose generosity and expertise shaped the work of countless engravers. Read the tribute to Robert Puff →
There are a couple of common approaches for indicating trills with specific trill-to pitches in your music score. One way is to indicate the trill-to pitch as a stemless, cue sized…
There are a couple of common approaches for indicating trills with specific trill-to pitches in your music score. One way is to indicate the trill-to pitch as a stemless, cue…
Updated on August 9, 2018 to add an addendum on tupletting pairs of tied notes. I recently needed to figure out ways to represent dotted notes so they would appear…
Q: How can I join several movements of a piece, which I wrote as individual Sibelius scores, together as a single Sibelius document? A: Sibelius provides an “Append” feature, found…
Q: How can I change the default beam grouping in Sibelius? Specifically, I would like to have the 8ths in the time signature 4/4 be displayed in groups of 2…
Q: How can I assign a color to an individual barline? If I try, Sibelius tells me these objects can’t be colored. A: While ordinary barlines can’t be colored, there…
Q: Can I delete or hide the page numbers Sibelius creates by default? A: Page numbers in Sibelius are a special type of Text Style which cannot be selected directly. As such,…
In Sibelius, it’s easy to change the rehearsal mark format from letters to numbers or to bar numbers. And, with either rehearsal letters or numbers, you can also create individual…
Q: When I input a chord (say, C-E-G) and then hit enter to tie it to the next chord, it USUALLY works fine. The big exception is when I enter…
Some educational materials color or mark the strings on which notes appear for a stringed instrument. This document describes how string numbering can be used with plugins in Sibelius scores.…
