Sibelius (software)
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Sibelius 8, running on macOS.
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| Original author(s) | Ben Finn Jonathan Finn |
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| Developer(s) | Avid |
| Initial release | April 1993 |
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8.5 / 1 December 2016
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| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS |
| Available in | 9 languages |
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List of languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
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| Type | Scorewriter |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Sibelius is a scorewriter program developed and released by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for the Microsoft Windows, macOS, and the RISC OS operating systems. It is used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly for writing classical, jazz, band, vocal, film and television music. Beyond editing and printing scores, Sibelius can also play music back using synthesised sounds, produce legible scores for editing and printing, and publish scores for others to access via the Internet and iPads.
'Lite' versions of Sibelius, with fewer features, at lower prices, have been released, as have various add-ons for the software.
Sibelius was originally developed by British twins Ben and Jonathan Finn for the Acorn Archimedes computer, under the name Sibelius 7. Development (done on RISC OS fully in assembly language) was started in 1986, just after the Finns left school, continuing while they were at Oxford and Cambridge universities. They were music students, and they said they wrote the program because they did not like the laborious process of writing music by hand.
The program was released to the public in April 1993 on 3.5-inch floppy disk. It required considerably less than 1 MB of memory (Sibelius 7 needed only 548 K for a 33-page symphonic score, for example), but the combination of assembly language and Acorn's RISC chip meant that it ran very quickly. No matter how long the score, changes were displayed almost instantly.
The first ever user of Sibelius was the composer and engraver Richard Emsley, who used it before its release and provided advice on music-engraving aspects of the software. The first score published using Sibelius was Antara by George Benjamin, published by Faber Music and copied by Emsley. Other early users included composer John Rutter, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, and publisher Music Sales.
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