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Importing lyrics into Sibelius

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Importing lyrics into Sibelius

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- [Instructor] Another way to input lyrics into Sibelius is by importing them from a plain text file. This process also does not require you to syllabify the lyrics in advance. Sibelius will analyze the words and syllabify them for you. The import process is quite a bit different from the pasting process, though, so definitely work phrase by phrase and carefully follow directions when you first give this a try. First if you have the course example files open the 04_04 Sibelius file along with the 04_04a text file. You'll be working with both of these files first. Notice in your first lyric text file, this a file, that you have a complete set of lyrics that will fill out the entirety of one line of lyrics in the Sibelius file, meaning we're going to have enough lyrics to go from the very beginning to the end. Also notice in the text file that I've taken the liberty to pre-hyphenate a word that I know Sibelius will…

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