Do this on the title page for the Secondo and the Primo part: This can be set by selecting the 1st bar and in the Properties window/Bars, set the distance you like (this measurement is in spaces). The 1st bar in a score doesn’t snap against the left page margin, but has some distance from it. You can see where a special page-break is used by turning on the Layout Marks in the view menu:Ī normal page break: A special page break: In the Staff Margins panel for this score I choose 18 mm (.71 inches) for the top and bottom staff margins for the rest of the score: Select the New Margins check-box to open the Margins window. To set the staff margins for the pages after the 2nd title page, select the right bar-line from the last bar on page 2 and open Special Page Break from the Layout/Breaks menu: In the screenshot below, both 1st page and After first page have the same top and bottom staff margin values (shown in mm): This can be done the regular way in the Layout/Document Setup window. The Secondo and Primo parts need both a title page with the same staff margin settings. … and fill in the amount of bars and systems. Select bars 1-20 on page one and lock it with the Lock Format command from the Layout/Format menu:ĭo the same for bars 21-40 on page two, bars 41-60 on page three and bars 61-80 on page four. Or to do all the above steps at once, choose the Make Layout Uniform plugin from the Plug-in menu….Create a system break after every 4 bars.Add enough bars to get a total of 80 bars from the Create/Bar/other menu:.Start by creating a normal piano solo score.The screenshots are all in Sibelius 6, but the principals are exactly the same for Sibelius 7.x Later when you to enter the music, you can always add or delete bars on a page. Notation template In this example I will create a basic template with 4 pages having 5 systems each, in which every system has 4 bars, what would be 20 bars on a page and a total of 80 bars on 4 pages.
This way, the two players can easily read their own parts while following the other player’s part. Piano music for four hands has in general the lower part (Secondo) notated on the left hand pages, and the higher part (Primo) notated on the right hand pages.
In this tutorial I will show you the workflow I use to create a 4 hands piano score, and optionally, how to export a midi/audio reference.