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Expression text - Sibelius Tutorial

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Expression text

- [Instructor] In Sibelius, dynamics are called expressions. The expression text style then is the text style that you'll use for inputting all dynamics, which will appear in a beautiful bold italic font as well as any other expressive text marking that appears below the staff in a plain italic such as crescendo or diminuendo indications. When you input expressions it's best to attach them to and position them directly underneath the musical note, even though they can be attached to any position in a bar. The shortcut for the expression text style is command + e on mac, or control + e on windows. The expression text style is a staff text style so your expressions will appear only in the part that they're attached to in the score. To input an expression or dynamic marking, select the appropriate musical note that you want the expression to appear underneath, so I'm going to go to the beginning of our score here, select the…

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