ENCORE - Quick Reference

SETTING UP:
1. A piano staff will appear automatically. If you need a different set-up, select "New" under "File." Select piano-vocal or single staves.

2. Clefs
Click "notes" in the upper left hand corner; the "clefs" palette should appear; click the clef you want, than click on the staff where you want the clef to appear.

3. Time Signature
Under "measures" (top of screen) select "time signature," select the appropriate time signature and click OK. For a pick-up bar, select that bar and open "time signature." If you have a quarter note pick-up in 4/4 time, for example, click "other" and change the box to the right of "other" to 1/4. For an eighth note pick-up, change the box to 1/8. Then click "pick-up bar" and OK.

4. Key Signature
Under "measures" select "key signature." Click the arrows up for sharps and down for flats.

5. Adding notes to the staff
To place notes on the staff, you must first select the pencil from the bar near the top of the screen; click the bar near the top left of the screen until the "notes" palette appears; select the duration you need and click on the staff where you want the note to appear.

6. Triplets
For triplets, first click the note value you want from the "notes" palette (e.g. eighth note); then click 3:2 at the bottom of the palette; next place the notes on the staff, and they will appear as triplets.

7. Multiple voices
To write music with multiple voices that have notes of different values on the same staff, select "voice" from the upper left of the screen. Select "voice 1," "voice 2," etc; enter voices one at a time. To return to normal entry, select "all voices." If the voices are not properly aligned, select "all voices," then, under "measures," select "align spacing"; indicate the measures that need to be adjusted, and click OK.

8. Erasing
To erase notes or symbols, select the eraser from the upper tool bar, then select the appropriate note or symbol from the left palette and click on top of the note/symbol to be erased.

9. Slurs
To add a slur, click the top left bar until the "tools" palette appears; select the slur (top left), then click on the staff where you want the beginning, middle, and end of the slur to be. The slur will appear after the third click.

10. 8va.
To indicate 8va, bring up the "tool" palette and click - - -or - - -. Click on the screen where you want the 8va to end; then return to the tool palette and click 8va or 8vb; click on the screen where you want the 8va to begin.

11. Trill
To add a trill, select the tr from the "tool" palette; click on the screen where you want the trill to appear and drag to the right as far as you wish the wavy line to continue.

12. Stem direction
To change stem direction, select (with the arrow) the notes whose stems you want to change. Command U moves stems up; Command D moves stems down.

13. Moving notes, staves, etc.
Use the arrow (upper left) to move staves, notes, slurs, etc.; to move a staff, click in the upper left hand corner of the staff and drag.

14. Text
To add text, bring up the "graphics" palette and select T . Click and drag the text pointer to define a text box. Type in the text.

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