Great scores for your students

Inspire creativity, boost results and make music more accessible. Sibelius is used in the world’s classrooms every day to enhance music education and help students achieve great results.

What’s New for the classroom in Sibelius 6:

Faster, neater, scores for students

Only in Sibelius: Magnetic Layout positions almost every aspect of students’ scores in just the right place – dynamics, lyrics, chord symbols and more. Students can produce smarter scores more quickly for coursework and examinations. And Magnetic Layout helps teachers prepare scores for class and school performances in up to half the usual time.

Control the class

The network version of Sibelius 6 helps teachers manage a lab of Sibelius copies from a single computer, and ensure students are doing what they’re meant to be! A classroom control panel lets teachers instantly:

• Send a starting worksheet or score to every classroom computer
• Freeze computers to get students’ attention
• Send messages to all students (for example, “Only five more minutes.”)
• Gather all students’ work into a single folder at the end of a class – ready to run through on the interactive whiteboard.



Reports on student progress

Only in Sibelius: The new Versions feature enables teachers to see and report on what changes have been made to a student’s score over time. Students can also add their own commentary with each set of changes, and Sibelius 6 collates these together with a record of progress to generate a student’s creative diary. See example student progress report (PDF) »



Exchange comments with students

Teacher and students can now add virtual sticky notes to their scores – to pass on thoughts and suggestions efficiently, and in just the right places on a score.



Keyboard & Fretboard windows

For students who prefer using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful new windows are ideal. Students simply click on the keys or frets to input notes and chords – or play their computer’s QWERTY keys just like a piano!

But they’re not just for inputting. Select any note/chord, and the keyboard or fretboard shows how it’s played. And when students play the score back, they can follow the music on the keyboard or fretboard too – even if it’s written for other instruments.



Link with audio recording software

ReWire support lets you sync Sibelius playback with audio software that you may already have at your school – like Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic and GarageBand. Students can link together audio recording and score playback to add live audio to their pieces.



Minimum requirements for Sibelius 6 alone

Windows XP 32-bit SP2 or later, or Windows Vista 32-bit SP1 or later, 512MB+ RAM, 550MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive

Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later or Mac OS X 10.5, 512MB+ RAM, 550MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive

Additional recommendations for using the included Sibelius Sounds Essentials sound library

Windows: Intel Core Duo or AMD Turion or better, 1GB+ total physical RAM (2GB recommended), 3.5GB total hard disk space, ASIO-compatible soundcard

Mac: Intel Core Duo or better, 1GB+ total physical RAM (2GB recommended), 3.5GB total hard disk space

You can use Sibelius Sounds Essentials if your computer doesn’t meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously.