Selections and Copying Music

If you are starting from this section of the project, you should open the example score called Project 1 and make the 3 Selections and
copying music version into the Current version by choosing Review > Versions > Edit Versions. Select this version in the list and click
Make current.

Now you will learn how to select passages of music to manipulate, copy, or delete notes and other objects en masse.

Selections and Passages

When objects in the score are selected, they go colored, which shows that you can do things to them using the mouse and keyboard. Al-
most everything you will do to change your score in Sibelius involves selections.

There are three main kinds of selection:

• Single selections, where just one object is selected (such as a note or a text object).
• Multiple selections, where several separate objects are selected.
• Selected passages, where continuous stretches of music are selected, shown with a light blue (“staff passage”) or purple (“system pas-
sage”) highlight round them.

You can do pretty much the same things to all three kinds of selection. The main difference is how you select the objects in the first
place.

Now you will learn how to make and use different kinds of selections in the Scarborough Fair score. Selecting single objects is simple
enough, you’ve already looked at how to select notes by clicking them with the mouse, or by pressing the Tab key.

To select multiple objects:

1 Select a single object.
2 Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) one or more additional objects to add them to the selection.

Try this by selecting the first note of the clarinet staff in the first bar of the Scarborough Fair score.
3 Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) the next note.

You can select text and other objects this way. Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) the Title to select it. If you acciden-
tally add an object to the selection in this way, you can remove it by Command-clicking (Mac) or Control-clicking (Windows) the object
again. Try removing the Title from the selection as practice.

Multiple selections let you perform edits to specific objects. You can use the Up and Down Arrow keys to move the selected notes up
and down by step. This is really useful for objects other than notes, chords, and rests—such as for selecting multiple articulations or sev-
eral bits of text.

Before you learn how to make a passage selection, deselect the current objects by pressing Esc (or clicking the top left button on the
Keypad).

A passage is a continuous chunk of music, possibly running over many pages. It can run along one staff or several. You’ll most often
select a passage in order to copy music from one instrument to another—for example if they’re doubling each other. Passage selections
let you edit, copy, or delete lots of notes all at once.

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Selections and Copying Music