Comments on: Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 2: How do you eat an elephant?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:27:39 +0000

Hey John,
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I wrote a score where I combine FHorns 1+ 3 in one stave and 2+4 on another. What is the easiest way to print 4 discrete FHorn parts for the players while keeping the horns in pairs in the conductor score in Sibelius?. Same situation with wood winds and brass…The only way I know is by extracting, lets say, the FHorn 1+3 line from the score to an independent Sibelius document. I then duplicate that document. I use one document for FHorn one and the other document for FHorn3. I obviously need to edit each of them which is a pain. The other problem is that if you want to make any changes, these changes don’t translate to the main orchestral score. Your detailed advice would be really appreciated. Best regards!!

By: John Hinchey

John Hinchey — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:00:47 +0000

In reply to Tom.

Hi Tom, Thanks for reading my blog! If you go to page 423 of the Sibelius reference guide, it explains how to do this.
Best,
John

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 01:47:00 +0000

Hello John!

Great post! But I wanted to ask you something:

I see in most of the orchestral scores that the put the name of the instrument and then the “numbers”. I know that in Finale you can do it with the Group Name and the Instrument Name. But can you do it with Sibelius?

I hope you understand what I said.If I could upload a picture to this comment it would be much more clear what I’m talking about.

Thanks for these tips!

Tom

By: John Hinchey

John Hinchey — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:08:12 +0000

In reply to Simon Hale. Hi Simon, So glad I can help! Thanks for reading my blog. John

By: Simon Hale

Simon Hale — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:51:21 +0000

Thanks John – this exchange plug-in is wonderful and just what I have often needed. I have (you’ll be glad to know) assigned a shortcut to it!
Thanks again for all your useful tips – very much appreciated.

Simon

By: John Hinchey

John Hinchey — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:15:41 +0000

In reply to Tom.

Hi Tom,
Thanks for reading my blog! You have hit on what will be one of my next blog posts in this series. But the short answer: No you don’t need to extract the horn parts. There are very view situations where you have to extract parts. You select the the Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3 and Horn 4 staves in your full score page view (make sure focus on staves is not on), then go to the Home Tab>Hide or Show>Show in parts. Then with those 4 staves still selected go to the Layout Tab>Hide empty staves. The staves will be hidden in the score but show in the parts and in panorama view. If you make changes in the horn 1&2 part, just select those bars and do the explode procedure again. Check back for a blog post describing this in more detail.
Best,
John

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:21:16 +0000

Hello John,

Good post! But I am curious for the next step.
Do I have to print or export the four musician-parts first and then delete them from the score? Of can you hide them?

And what If I make changes to the horns 1&2 part? Is there a simple and quick solution to change the Horn1 and Horn2 part?