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Sibelius
Driving notation forward

Time-tested music notation software
From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators rely on Sibelius to write, share, and publish music. Sibelius powers today's professional music industry with sophisticated features like AI-powered accelerators, advanced options for markup and layout, Cloud Publishing, and the ability to work across any device. With Sibelius, you can create and collaborate with musicians around the world and be confident that your work translates into something you can be proud of.

Connect and collaborate

Use Sibelius On Any Device
Sibelius brings professional music notation to iPad and iPhone, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. Seamlessly move between iPad, iPhone, Android and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes.

Collaborate, share, and transform
View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Publishing, allowing you to work without missing a beat

Composition

Quick note entry
Enter notes from the onscreen notation Keypad, a MIDI keyboard, your computer keyboard, or using an Apple Pencil or tablet stylus

Magnetic Layout and Auto Optimize
Avoid collisions and overlaps in your score with a layout that auto adjusts to the needs of your score so you don't have to spend time formatting

Sound library support
Use your preferred third-party libraries alongside 24GB of factory content with VST and AU plugin support for ultra-realistic playback

Chord Symbol entry, assisted by AI
Allows you to quickly embellish your music, saving you time in the composition process

Panorama view
Allows you to write without the constraints of the score layout

Collaborate, share, and transform
View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Sharing

Arranging & Engraving

Intelligent MIDI Import
As MIDI tracks are added to your score template, Sibelius will automatically assign instruments in your score

Dynamic Parts
Gives you individual parts for players and updates automatically with changes you make in the score, so you don't have to extract parts individually or search through scores

Score Subsets
Helps you make custom arrangements from sketch staves and create rehearsal scores quickly

Mark up your score
Add chord symbols, guitar tab, guitar chord diagrams, expression text, articulations, lyrics, titles, graphics, and more to give your music the detail, depth, and dynamism it deserves

Built for scale
Unlimited staves and deep customization options allow for arrangements and ensembles of any size with Sibelius Ultimate

With Cloud Publishing
You can share drafts for feedback and collaboration, then publish your final arrangements

Education

Flexible licensing
Choose a Network licensing for on-prem computers, and a Team licensing to allow licenses to be distributed to your teachers and students to use Sibelius on their own devices

Curriculum: Conquered
The Worksheet Creator provides over 1,700 worksheets, projects, exercises, songs, and other teaching resources

Create online interactive content
With Cloud Sharing, where you can embed worksheets and assignments in your lesson plans and students can submit their work

Sibelius across devices
Use Sibelius across all your devices: mobile, tablet, Chromebook, and Desktop (Mac and Windows)

Kickstart ideas
The ideas panel with 2,000 snippets of music to help students search for something to kickstart their creative process

Command the classroom
Manage the classroom from your own workstation with Classroom Control. Access files on networked devices, send or retrieve materials from your students, and even "freeze" Sibelius on your students' devices.