![]() Other than that, I have no substantial complaints about the full version of Sibelius, though I haven't used it enough to really judge. I much prefer Finale's behavior of leaving the measure empty until I fill it in. It bugs me that it forces measures to be full and thus adds rests that I didn't specify. I've used the full version of Sibelius and it is certainly quite nice. If Sibelius First can do odd time-signatures, then I won't tell everyone to reject it like I do with Finale Printmusic and below. Can anyone confirm this? Sibelius website says something about "First" not allowing irregular bars, and also not having cue notes, no custom noteheads, some tuplets but not all, and no nested tuplets, and a few other limitations. Finale Printmusic and lower versions do not allow anything but the standard set of time-signatures, but maybe Sibelius First is different. There are many ways in which Sibelius First is crippled versus the full Sibelius, but maybe nothing that serious. ![]() I was going to reply about concerns that Sibelius First not allowing odd time signatures, but I checked again and it appears I may be mistaken. Go to the Sibelius site and watch the video or download the trial. The 'Lite' version is Sibelius First which seems to do most things, including extracting parts from a score, and is priced at £129.00 (G.B.P.) One of the good things about Sibelius is magnetic layout which saves a lot of time and avoids any collisions with beams, lyrics, expression marks etc. You might, for example, have a section on adding dynamics or articulations.SteveM wrote:I use Sibelius 6 which is a bit expensive but very good. Imagine how exciting it was for students to have their “masterpieces” used for the class to study and then be used for assessment! Talk about students taking ownership! There could be many variations on this activity. Students had unknowingly created material that would be used for thier own assessment! Then using Finale, I created assessable SmartMusic files using the student examples. The students performed their examples for the class before the entire class tried it. In a few cases I edited awkward jumps that were not suitable for specific instruments. ![]() Next I used the full version of Finale to assemble all the student NotePad files. Students who did not complete the assignment during class could access their work at another time. I did this activity with more than one class and created separate folders for each. Listening to the playback through headphones, they busily set about creating their examples.Īfter the students were done, they saved their work in a folder I created on the school network. I discussed with them some ideas that would help their examples to be playable and sound “good.”Įach student opened NotePad and set up their document for their instrument, and used their name as the title. For this example, I predetermined the time signature and rhythm sequence but the note choice was up to them. The goal was for the students to use NotePad to create a four-measure example using identified sixteenth note rhythms. In the computer lab, I again used a computer connected to an LCD projector – should anyone have questions about the use of NotePad I could demonstrate for all to see. Prior to going to the computer lab, I reviewed the activity with the students and the school policies pertaining to the use of the computer lab. Wanting the activity to go smoothly in the computer lab, I made a fairly detailed set of instructions. I connected an LCD projector to my computer so everyone could see, and I took some selected screenshots and printed some follow-along handouts. In my classroom, I gave some quick lessons regarding the basic use of Finale NotePad. In time I found more and more uses of NotePad, some of which even included SmartMusic.įor one activity I had my seventh graders create some examples of the basic sixteenth note rhythms we were learning in class. The idea was that students would learn about the technology and receive reinforcement of basic theory concepts (time signatures, note values, etc.). I had Finale NotePad installed in the school’s computer labs with the intention of having students use this powerful and low-cost notation software to learn about writing music notation.
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