Page 1 NOTATING MUSIC FOR HARP IN SIBELIUS Bob Zawalich September 7, 2016; Updated May 19, 2021 1 CONTENTS 2 Notating harp music ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 3 Creating a harp instrument .................................................................................................................................................. 4 4 Magnetic layout ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4 5 Notes and noteheads ..............................................................................................................................................................5 5.1 Alternate/Optional notes .............................................................................................................................................. 6 5.2 Tremolos and bisbigliando ............................................................................................................................................. 7 6 Adding lines, text, and symbols ............................................................................................................................................. 7 6.1 Positioning lines, text, and symbol objects .................................................................................................................. 9 6.2 Adding lines ................................................................................................................................................................... 9 6.2.1 Glissandos ............................................................................................................................................................. 10 6.2.2 Arpeggios .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 6.2.3 Brackets ................................................................................................................................................................ 12 6.3 Adding text .................................................................................................................................................................... 13 6.3.1 Harp Pedal Diagrams ........................................................................................................................................... 13 6.3.2 Fingering ............................................................................................................................................................... 13 6.3.3 Fingering Slides .................................................................................................................................................... 14 6.3.4 Pedal Changes ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 6.4 Adding symbols ............................................................................................................................................................ 15 6.4.1 Symbol objects in Sibelius ................................................................................................................................... 15 6.4.2 Text vs. symbols ................................................................................................................................................... 16 6.4.3 Tone Clusters ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 7 Customization: user-defined text styles, symbols, noteheads, and lines .......................................................................... 17 7.1 Making your own objects ............................................................................................................................................. 17 7.2 Lines made of Adjacent symbols ................................................................................................................................. 17 Page 2 7.3 Symbols as font characters or graphics ....................................................................................................................... 18 8 Playback ................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 8.1 Notes ............................................................................................................................................................................. 18 8.2 Harmonics ..................................................................................................................................................................... 18 8.3 Gliss lines ..................................................................................................................................................................... 20 8.4 Arpeggios ..................................................................................................................................................................... 22 9 Sound Libraries, Exporting to Audio, Creating MP3 files ................................................................................................ 22 10 Ensemble pieces, dynamic parts, and the Rehearsal Recordings plug-in ....................................................................... 23 11 Lever harp-specific notation features ................................................................................................................................ 23 12 Pedal harp-specific notation features ................................................................................................................................ 24 12.1 Overview....................................................................................................................................................................... 24 12.2 Fonts and other support files ...................................................................................................................................... 24 12.3 Adding special characters to a Sibelius Score. ........................................................................................................... 24 12.4 Where to keep the data score ...................................................................................................................................... 26 12.5 Using the data score .................................................................................................................................................... 26 12.6 Importing all the Norfolk Harp characters into a score ............................................................................................ 26 12.7 What do these harp symbols mean? ........................................................................................................................... 26 12.8 How to do more complex things. ................................................................................................................................ 26 12.9 Creating an octave of small notes for a glissando using grace notes. ....................................................................... 29 12.10 Notating the Salzedo “Metallic sounds” effect ....................................................................................................... 30 12.11 Notating the Salzedo “Aeolian Rustling” effect ...................................................................................................... 31 12.12 Notating the Salzedo “Muffling” effects .................................................................................................................. 31 12.13 How to get additional symbols ............................................................................................................................... 32 12.14 Some other techniques for lines ............................................................................................................................. 32 13 Using plug-ins ..................................................................................................................................................................... 35 13.1 An example of a plugin that saves work ..................................................................................................................... 35 13.2 Installing downloadable plug-ins ............................................................................................................................... 35 13.3 Some important plug-ins ............................................................................................................................................ 36 13.4 Other useful shipping plug-ins (do not need to be installed) ....................................................................................37 13.5 Some Non-harp-specific plug-ins ................................................................................................................................37 Page 3 13.6 Some Harp-specific plug-ins ....................................................................................................................................... 38 14 About the author