REQ: Simplified Music Notation -Sibelius Plugin

Simplified Music Notation is a training aid to help develop sight-reading skills. It is designed for learners in general as well as students with working memory problems and other learning difficulties. It enables students to learn repertoire faster, and with an increased level of confidence. It can also be helpful for more advanced musicians, especially in modern music.


How does the plugin help? If there is a tricky piece that you have always wanted to play, you can now do so without the laborious pursuit of sight-reading difficult keys (even though the key signature is still there) and working out the pitch of the notes.

The plugin allows teachers to switch at a click between traditional and Simplified Music Notation to meet the demands and struggles in the classroom thereby helping students to overcome sight-reading problems. The plugin will also benefit the professional musician and composer in respect of accidental-littered chromatic and atonal music.

As a learning aid, a teaching aid, or for personal use, the plugin removes the rigidity and tedium of traditional notation and introduces a fun, more rational approach, to reading music.

The Simplified Music Notation plugin can be automatically installed and is then listed in the plugin menu of your Sibelius program as ‘Simplified Music Notation converter’. You simply click on the plugin to convert to Simplified Music Notation. Click on the plugin again to restore the music to its original traditional notation format.