Please note: You may purchase, register, and use this program only if you are a qualifying student, teacher, educational institution, or music minister residing in the Americas.

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Teaching with Sibelius

• Enables students to hear their compositions
• Helps teachers prepare lessons more quickly
• Comes with 1000s of worksheets and ideas

How will Sibelius help me?

Sibelius is suitable for all educational levels – it’s easy for beginners, yet sophisticated enough for all university requirements. Sibelius helps teachers with preparing teaching materials and arrangements. It lets students hear how their work sounds, makes it easy to find and correct mistakes, and is much more fun to use than pen and paper! At university level, Sibelius satisfies the most advanced requirements, from avant garde and early music notation to Schenkerian analysis.

If you’re an instrumental teacher, Sibelius makes it quick to create exercises, scan in and transpose pieces, and produce accompaniments and arrangements – you’ll never need to write out parts again!

Ideas Hub

Over 2000 ready-made ideas are included for students to use, in a huge range of styles from classical, jazz and band to world music, rock and hip-hop. By using these ideas in their music, students of all abilities can discover how melodies, harmonies and rhythms can be put together to create differing textures and musical structures.

They could start with just one or two ideas for inspiration, or alternatively use ideas as building blocks to create a complete piece. You can keep track of what they’ve done, because Sibelius marks where ideas are used in the score.

If you prefer, you can switch off all of the ready-made ideas, or just give students a few specific ones, for more focused exercises.

Internet studying

With Sibelius, you can put coursework onto your school/university web site or our special site SibeliusEducation.com for students to view, play, print and save to disk. SibeliusEducation.com also provides additional teaching materials and resources from other educators and from Sibelius Software.

Sibelius comes with free-time limited access to GroveMusic.com, the Internet version of the world's leading music encyclopedia.

Arranging & transposing

The Arrange feature saves hours of time in creating arrangements and keyboard reductions. It’s also ideal for students who are learning arranging, composition or even orchestration.

Transposing is another great time-saver for putting pieces into suitable keys, and adjusting exercises for different instruments or abilities.

Playback

When playing, Sibelius selects the right instrumental sounds, reads markings straight from the score and adds expression, so students get a realistic rendition of their music right away. And they can check for mistakes, just by listening. (read more)

You can also use Sibelius to play aural tests, accompaniments, and even create CDs and MP3 files of your music.

Color & graphics

Notes which are too high/low are shown in red; you can adjust instrument ranges to write for players of different abilities. Music can be hidden, so students can fill in an exercise on computer and then reveal the right answer.

Sibelius lets you add color, pictures and graphic notations to coursework; lots of graphics are included. You can also take music from Sibelius into word processors and graphics packages, for creating worksheets, posters, etc. in other programs.

Plug-ins

Sibelius includes many educational plug-ins, to automate tasks such as writing note names and beats above notes, creating sets of scales and arpeggios, adding brass/string fingering and tonic sol-fa, and identifying motives for musical analysis.

School features

Students find Sibelius so much fun to use in the classroom that they sometimes play around with it instead of getting on with their work! So you can switch off all of the advanced features with a couple of clicks, leaving only the main things students need for coursework.

You can also turn individual features on/off, and create your own sets of features for different classes - e.g. if you're teaching how to transpose by hand, you can stop students transposing it automatically!

Sibelius Student

Sibelius Student is a special version of Sibelius designed for students to use for homework. It has just the features students need, but is compatible with the full Sibelius program - so they can work on the same piece at home and at school.

Sibelius Notes

Sibelius Notes is a separate pack of educational resources to help students learn music with Sibelius, and to save you time preparing lessons. It’s suitable for all school levels and abilities, from basic notation to Bach chorales, and contains:

• Teacher’s Guide: over 200 pages of ready-to-use exercises, worksheets and resources
• Student Skills Guide: 10 copies of a step-by-step mini-manual of Sibelius features
• CD-ROM of Sibelius files

System Requirements

PC

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
• 512MB+ RAM
• 350MB hard disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• You must be running at least Windows XP Service Pack 2 to install and run Sibelius 5. If you have Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.x, you need to purchase an upgrade to a more recent version of the Windows operating system

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• 512MB+ RAM
• 350MB hard disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• Sibelius 5 is a Universal application Which means that it runs on both older Macs with PowerPC processors and new Macs with Intel processors.
• If you are running a version of Mac OS X earlier than Mac OS X 10.4, you cannot install and run Sibelius. You may want to upgrade Mac OS X now, although this normally incurs an upgrade fee. See www.apple.com for details