In Sibelius 7, choose the Percussion Instruments Style from the Symbols (special) group. In Sibelius 6, select Create>Text>Special Text>Percussion Instruments. If you know the keystroke for a particular symbol, you can also type in its symbol directly using the Percussion Instruments Text Style, or changing the font to the Opus Percussion font (which is used by the Percussion Instruments Text Style). Type Z to open the Symbols Dialog (Sibelius 6) or Symbols Gallery (Sibelius 7). The pictograph symbols can accessed directly from the Symbols Gallery / Dialog and attached to an instrument’s entrance above a percussion or drum staff. Sibelius supports this standard with its “Opus Percussion” font.
The current set of symbols includes instruments, mallets and beaters: Percussion pictographs are standardized graphical icons used to represent percussion instruments in music scores. Percussion Pictographs were first proposed and developed at the International Conference on New Music Notation held at the University of Ghent in Belgium in 1974. I thought this would make an interesting tutorial, useful for worksheets and other specialty applications (like my kid’s choir project). The publisher requested that we use percussion pictographs instead of abbreviated text for the percussion instrument names after the first system: The percussion part, which was on three different instrument lines, needed to be as clear and readable as possible for the kids performing.
I recently typeset a piece of music for children’s choir and percussion. This tutorial is also available for Finale.
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