Notating Music for Harp in Sibelius
- Notating-Music-for-the-Harp-in-Sibelius-05-19-2021
- Notation in Sibelius for The Composer’s Guide to Writing Well for The Modern Harp by Yolanda Kondonassis
Sibelius Plugin Resources
- Documentation for plugins
- Writing Your Own Sibelius Plugins
- Execute Commands Plugin Documentation
- Plugin lookup and categories
- Manual plugin installation instructions
- All downloadable Sibelius plugins.
- Alphabetical list of all plugins currently on the Sibelius plugin download page (many written by Bob Zawalich)
- Sibelius Tools For Bagpipe Music
- Curated Sibelius plugin sets (this is no longer supported)
Non-Plugin documentation
- Data scores for Sibelius as of 14 August 2023
- Enumerated Named Color List
- Get Saved Sibelius Version (application)
- Guitar Capo Templates Sib 6 Format
- Note Clusters in Sibelius Example Scores Sib7 Format
Guest Blog Posts by Bob Zawalich
In Philip Rothman’s/Daniel Spreadbury’s blog Scoring Notes/Sibelius Blog
- Command Macros, Command Plug-ins, and cmdutils for Sibelius (September 1, 2021)
- Using Commands in Plug-ins In Sibelius Ultimate 2021.2 (March 18, 2021)
- 2019: A Sibelius plug-in year in review (December 30, 2019)
- Extend notes in a selection with Sibelius plug-in Fill With Tied Notes (October 4, 2019)
- Format text in the Edit Instrument Names plug-in for Sibelius (August 20, 2019)
- Using Tone Clusters in Sibelius (June 26, 2019)
- The Chord Symbols As Polychords plug-in for Sibelius (February 8, 2019)
- A Sibelius plug-in road tour (December 19, 2018)
- The Tie Extended Stable plug-in for Sibelius (
- Text plug-ins for Sibelius: Add Fingering to Notes in Sibelius 7+, and ReInput Text (A
- Browse Selected Objects – A New Plugin For Sibelius (July 18, 2018)
- Cloud sharing for Sibelius scores with multiple copies (February 14, 2018)
- 2017: The Sibelius plug-in year in review (December 27, 2017)
- Sibelius plug-ins news – October 2017 (October 4, 2017)
- Changing font name and size for harp diagrams and tuning text in Sibelius (March 24, 2017)
- 2016: The Sibelius plug-in year in review (December 30, 2016)
- Importing only certain elements of house styles in Sibelius (June 7, 2016)
- Harp glissando and arpeggio playback in Sibelius (July 22, 2016)
- House style fonts and identifying house style families in Sibelius (31 May 2016)
- Notating lever changes for lever harps in Sibelius (10 March 2016)
- 2015: The plug-in year in review (28 December 2015)
- Changing default dialog settings in Sibelius plug-ins (23 December 2015)
- Using the Style Sheet plug-in in Sibelius (1 December 2015)
- Differentiating staff text, system text, and lyrics in Sibelius (15 September 2015)
- User folders and user-editable files in Sibelius (11 August 2015)
- Plug-in Developer’s Notebook: The Colored Notehead Style Project (15 July 2015)
- Stretching the limits of notehead styles and plug-ins in Sibelius (21 April 2015)
- Harp support in Sibelius (20 February 2015)
- 2014: The plug-in year in review (20 December 2014)
- Using font sizes in wildcards (or: Geeking out in Sibelius) (25 July 2015)
- A developer’s notebook: Recent plug-ins, spring 2014 (21 May 2014)
- Speeding up some Sibelius plug-ins (22 January 2013)
- Muted staves, playback, and audio export in Sibelius (27 December 2012)
- Using Run Plugins By Name or Fixed Plug-in Shortcuts (30 November 2013)
- How to make plug-ins appear in any ribbon tab in Sibelius 7 (24 April 2013)
- Navigating around your score using plug-ins (11 November 2013)
- Useful plug-ins for handling rests in voices (23 June 2010)
In Robert Puff’s blog OF NOTE
- Deconstructing the Rhythm Dot – The Mathematics of Dotted Notes (29 June 2018)
- Curated Plug-in sets: Installing the first plug-in (5 April 2016)
- Working sets, My Plugins, and Curated plug-ins in Sibelius (17 March 2016)
- Plug-ins that run other plug-ins in Sibelius (11 March 2016)
- Eliminating Duplicate Plugins in Sibelius (28 February 2016)
- Sibelius Plugins (23 December 2015)
- How Sibelius plugins store their settings for user data (5 September 2015)
- Make a New Instrument or Text Style Available to All Your Scores in Sibelius (28 February 2014)
- How to do what JW Rhythm and Meter (Plugin) does in Sibelius (5 April 2013)
- Installing Plug-ins in Sibelius (14 December 2012)
Blog posts that mention Bob’s Sibelius plugins
In Philip Rothman’s/Daniel Spreadbury’s blog Scoring Notes/Sibelius Blog
- Reliably flip beamed groups and force stem direction in Sibelius (April 29, 2020)
- Sibelius plug-in: Create Tuplets Different Units (May 17, 2020)
- Creating Trailing Pseudo-grace notes Plugin for Sibelius (October 30, 2019)
- NAMM 2018: The Sibelius 2018.1 release is smarter with multi-edit workflow improvements (January 25, 2018)
- Sibelius 8.6.1 update available; plug-ins updated for magnetic glissandi lines (July 20, 2017)
- Sibelius 8.6 released with magnetic glissandi lines (June 1, 2017)
- How to fix a common page numbering problem in Sibelius (March 17, 2017)
- Get accidentals to display correctly on cross-staff notes in Sibelius (updated) February 21, 2017)
- Fake it ’til you make it: New Sibelius plug-in for per-staff barline (January 31, 2017)
- 2016: The Sibelius plug-in year in review (December 30, 2016)
- 2016: A year in review (December 26, 2016)
- New Sibelius plug-in: Create N by M tuplet (October 11, 2016)
- Create harp diagrams in Sibelius, Finale, and MuseScore (September 7, 2016)
- Using the Open Selected Parts plug-in in Sibelius (July 28, 2016)
- Harp glissando and arpeggio playback in Sibelius (July 22, 2016)
- Using the Clipboards plug-in in Sibelius (11 May 2016)
- New plug-in: Dot Undot Rhythm (23 April 2016)
- Calculate statistics in a Sibelius score (23 March 2016)
- Norfolk Harp, a new addition to the Norfolk font family (18 February 2016)
- The big list of plug-ins (4 February 2016)
- Sibelius download page plug-ins (4 February 2016)
- New plug-ins: Save and Export and Save With Previous Version (5 November 2015)
- Change Symbols to articulations with Sibelius plug-in (30 October 2015)
- Lines between notes in Sibelius (10 September 2015)
- Laissez (les bon temps) vibrer (26 August 2015)
- New plug-in: Scale Notehead Sizes (5 March 2015)
- There It Is! (27 February 2015)
- Are your plug-ins up-to-date? (30 January 2015)
- Tip: Adding bars at the start of the score
- Tip: Editing instrument names quickly
- Transformations plug-ins in Sibelius 6 help develop ideas
- Create rehearsal recordings in seconds with new plug-in
- Five more Sibelius plug-ins you should download today
- Focus Set and Focus Families plug-ins make Focus on Staves more powerful
- Consolidate Ossia Staves plug-in
- Nashville Chord Numbers plug-in
- Let your fingers do the walking with Add Fingering to Notes plug-in
- Add a count-in to your exported audio tracks
- Respace bars with clef changes
- 5 plug-ins to help with proof-reading
- 2 new plug-ins: Retract Line Ends and Replace Symbol
- New and updated plug-ins, part 2
- New plug-in helps with cross-staff accidentals
- Two new plug-ins: Merge To Voice 1 and Simplify Part Names
- Working with page numbers in Sibelius
- New plug-in: Page Numbers
- New plug-in: Float Rests
- Swap the contents of two staves in Sibelius or Finale
- New plug-ins: Hide Articulations and Delete Leading Empty Bars
- New plug-ins: Swap or Replace Text Styles and Gap Before Bar
- Working correctly with slurs and ties
- Cracking Sibelius’s color code
- New plug-in: Position Rehearsal Marks
- New plug-in: Disguise Score
- New plug-in: Dangling Ties to Slurs
- 3 helpful plug-ins for working with lyrics
- Horizontal note spacing in Sibelius
- Working with instrument names in Sibelius
In Robert Puff’s blog OF NOTE
- Use Slurs to Create Straight, Note-attached Lines in Sibelius (26 September 2015)
- L.V. Symbols in Sibelius (Laissez vibrer) – Several Solutions (3 February 2014)
- Find Next One of These – A Useful and Little Known Sibelius Plugin (9 January 2014)
- Transpose by Interval in Sibelius (16 December 2013)
- Installing and using plug-ins in Sibelius 7 (14 December 2012)
- Convert MIDI CC64 on / off messages to Pedal markings in Finale & Sibelius (10 July 2013)