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Think outside the “box” with Numbers with Rings
Numbers with Rings is a sophisticated font that can bring the beauty of many enclosure styles to your scores. Learn how to use it by setting up your document to work with it.
2019: A Sibelius plug-in year in review
Plug-ins can be solutions to various problems or ways to make it easier to accomplish tasks. Bob Zawalich looks back at the end of another productive year in the world of Sibelius plug-in development and gives a preview of what’s to come.
Three quick tips from engraving Copland
In the course of preparing a new edition of Copland’s Three Latin American Sketches, here are three improvements that should not be overlooked when preparing a new edition, aside from the improvement in readability that an engraved part will bring. Also: Remembering Vivian Perlis, 1928-2019.
Using Numberpile for circled numbered rehearsal marks in Sibelius
By making a few easy adjustments to your document’s settings, you can use the free Numberpile font to place more beautiful circled numbered rehearsal marks in your Sibelius scores.
Sibelius plug-in: Position Rehearsal Marks
A brief overview of Bob Zawalich’s new plug-in, which can center rehearsal marks at the start of a system horizontally over the clef.
Using Live Tempo for rehearsal
Directing choirs is my main musical pursuit outside of my professional life, and I’m fortunate to have been working with the same chamber choir for over a decade now. Normally, for practical reasons, our performances are a capella, since we don’t often have instrumentalists or ensembles available to accompany us, but every so often we […]