Sibelius Compass Composition Guide

Full Description

The art of composition:

Sibelius Compass is a unique program to help students learn how to compose. It includes lessons, worksheets and self-tests covering a wide range of topics, leading on to complete composition projects.

Theory & practice:

For each lesson, students study relevant interactive topics, test themselves with the built-in quiz, and try out what they've learned in the Toolbox. Topics include melody, harmony, scales, rhythm, dynamics, transformations, timbre, texture, and form.

Toolbox:

Compass's Toolbox is where students record and develop musical ideas. It includes a large library of motives (e.g. chord sequences, rhythms, scales) to use plus tools to create canons, inversions, ostinati etc., and combine material in new ways.

Structured projects:

The lessons lead on to composition projects such as theme and variations, songwriting, sonata form and blues. Students develop music in the Toolbox, and can also transfer it to Sibelius 3 or any sequencer.