Sibelius is the complete software for writing, playing, printing and publishing music notation. It will make your life easier, save you time, produce fantastic results – and enable you to do things you might never have dreamed of, like publish your music on the Internet, or create your own CDs.

Here are some key features of "Sibelius":

· Dynamic Parts View movie
Beautifully laid-out instrumental parts that magically update themselves whenever you change the full score
· Worksheet Creator View movie
Save time by choosing from over 1700 high-quality worksheets, exercises, songs, instrumental pieces, lyrics, posters & other resources
· Video View movie
Now you too can compose a film/TV score! For professionals and students alike. Includes videos to write for, from Charlie Chaplin to Mr Bean


What's New in This Release:

· New Dynamic Parts: full score and all instrumental parts are in the same file, and any changes made in the score are automatically reflected in the part, and vice versa; no more part extraction!
· New Worksheet Creator: more than 1700 ready-made worksheets, resources and other teaching and learning materials, covering a broad spectrum of music curricula, age ranges and levels of ability. Easily create your own worksheets and add them to the Worksheet Creator, or publish them online for your students to download at SibeliusEducation.com!
· New video feature: add a digital video to your Sibelius score, and play it back in sync with your composition. New hit points and other improvements to timecode and playback controls make it simple to "compose to picture," opening up new possibilities both in education and for professional composers.
· Copy and paste directly from Sibelius into other programs, e.g. Microsoft Word, to make the preparation of music examples a breeze
· Fresh new look and feel, with a clean new look, redesigned playback controls, new functions for hiding and showing Sibelius's tool windows, improved zooming and navigation, streamlined menus and dialogs, and more
· The complete text of the Sibelius Reference book is available on-screen in searchable, printable HTML format
· New tutorial videos, presented by Sibelius co-founder Ben Finn, will help you learn the main features of Sibelius, especially the new ones
· SibeliusEducation.com web site, to help the increasing number of schools, colleges and universities that are making use of the internet and virtual learning environments to help organize classes, teaching materials and homework. SibeliusEducation.com will make it easier for you to organize your teaching materials, will save you having to print out or photocopy lots of copies of worksheets, and will prevent your students losing work they have been set: you and they can access work from anywhere.
· New Optical ties and Optical beam positions produce the best default appearance of any notation program, and offer many new options for customizing the defaults to match your own house style
· Improved importing of files created in Finale and other music programs, with the addition of the ability to import MusicXML files
· Many new music fonts, including a new music font family, Helsinki, which offers an elegant alternative to Opus, plus other new fonts for Roman numerals, figured bass, complex tempo markings, and more
· 11 new plug-ins, including Copy Articulations and Slurs (copies articulations without copying the notes), Add Simple Harmony (creates a simple accompaniment to a given melody for guitar or piano, with a variety of accompaniment styles), Strummer (creates realistic-sounding guitar strum patterns for playback), and Smarten Quotes (automatically converts straight quotes in text into "smart" curly ones). A number of existing plug-ins have also been improved.
· Sophisticated new behavior prevents Sibelius from moving the score around on the screen unnecessarily during note input and editing
· New "z on stem" symbol for percussion buzz rolls on the F10 Keypad layout
· Sibelius can now print the current date and time at the footer of every page you print, making it simple to keep track of revisions as you work
· Export files that can be opened directly by Sibelius 3 and Sibelius 2 - no need for third-party plug-ins to enable backwards compatibility
· Improvements to supplied PhotoScore Lite scanning package, including the ability to read 2-, 3- and 4-line staves, up to four voices per staff, and more. Full PhotoScore Professional 4 package is also available separately.