Music Notation Software User Guide (Pizzicato Notation)

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Table of contents

Table of contents.....................................................................................................................................................2Introduction To Pizzicato......................................................................................................................................10

Versions of Pizzicato.........................................................................................................................................10The user manual of Pizzicato............................................................................................................................11Goals of Pizzicato..............................................................................................................................................12

The mouse.............................................................................................................................................................12What is the mouse?............................................................................................................................................13Buttons of the mouse.........................................................................................................................................13Pointing ............................................................................................................................................................13Clicking ............................................................................................................................................................14Double-clicking ................................................................................................................................................14Clicking/dragging..............................................................................................................................................14

Installing Pizzicato................................................................................................................................................15Installing Pizzicato............................................................................................................................................15Starting Pizzicato...............................................................................................................................................15License registration...........................................................................................................................................16Exit Pizzicato.....................................................................................................................................................17

The computer and its interface (1)........................................................................................................................17What is a computer?..........................................................................................................................................17Communicating with a computer......................................................................................................................18The screen and windows...................................................................................................................................18Menus................................................................................................................................................................23Dialog boxes......................................................................................................................................................24

The computer and its interface (2)........................................................................................................................25Buttons...............................................................................................................................................................26Check boxes......................................................................................................................................................26Radio buttons.....................................................................................................................................................26Popup menus.....................................................................................................................................................27Scroll bars..........................................................................................................................................................27Sliders................................................................................................................................................................28Lists...................................................................................................................................................................29

The computer and its interface (3)........................................................................................................................29Using the keyboard............................................................................................................................................29Text boxes.........................................................................................................................................................30

Using help..............................................................................................................................................................34What is help?.....................................................................................................................................................34The help menu...................................................................................................................................................34How to use help?...............................................................................................................................................34Reaching contextual help..................................................................................................................................35

What's new in version 3.6......................................................................................................................................358 new Pizzicato versions in 3.6.........................................................................................................................35

MIDI Setup............................................................................................................................................................36What is MIDI?...................................................................................................................................................37MIDI configuration...........................................................................................................................................39Select a synthesizer...........................................................................................................................................42

Introduction to the music course...........................................................................................................................42The purpose of this course.................................................................................................................................42Material needed.................................................................................................................................................43How to use this course?.....................................................................................................................................44

Music notation.......................................................................................................................................................44

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What is music?..................................................................................................................................................45Characteristics of a sound..................................................................................................................................45Music notation...................................................................................................................................................46The staff.............................................................................................................................................................46The measure......................................................................................................................................................47Summary...........................................................................................................................................................49

Handling documents and windows (1)..................................................................................................................49What is a document?.........................................................................................................................................49The document manager.....................................................................................................................................50Opening and creation of a document.................................................................................................................52Opening several documents at the same time...................................................................................................53

Musical notation examples....................................................................................................................................54Note pitch - example.........................................................................................................................................54What is a clef?...................................................................................................................................................54

Note duration - example....................................................................................................................................55Instrument timbre - example.............................................................................................................................55

Note amplitude - example.................................................................................................................................56

Handling documents and windows (2)..................................................................................................................56Handling musical documents............................................................................................................................57The various Pizzicato windows.........................................................................................................................57The score view and the global view..................................................................................................................57The instruments view........................................................................................................................................58The sequencer view...........................................................................................................................................59The piano roll view............................................................................................................................................60The graphic view...............................................................................................................................................61The musical effects view...................................................................................................................................61Association of a comment.................................................................................................................................62The scrolling score view....................................................................................................................................62The lyrics window.............................................................................................................................................63The chord progression window.........................................................................................................................63The windows management modes....................................................................................................................63

Measures and staves (1)........................................................................................................................................64The measures and staves tool............................................................................................................................64Adding and deleting measures and staves.........................................................................................................64The linear mode.................................................................................................................................................68Creating a score in linear mode.........................................................................................................................69

Measures and staves (2)........................................................................................................................................70How to move a staff?.........................................................................................................................................70

How to modify the width of a measure?...........................................................................................................72Notes and rests.......................................................................................................................................................73The name and position of notes.........................................................................................................................73Rhythmic values of notes..................................................................................................................................74Rests..................................................................................................................................................................78Summary...........................................................................................................................................................79

Introduction of notes and rests (1).........................................................................................................................80How to introduce notes and rests?.....................................................................................................................80How to delete a note or a rest?..........................................................................................................................81How to move a note or a rest?...........................................................................................................................81How to select tools with the keyboard?.............................................................................................................82

Automatic justification......................................................................................................................................83Characteristics of music notation (1).....................................................................................................................84

Note stems.........................................................................................................................................................84Beams................................................................................................................................................................84More than one rhythmic voice...........................................................................................................................85

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Introduction of notes and rests (2).........................................................................................................................86How to modify the stems orientation?..............................................................................................................86How to modify the beams?................................................................................................................................87

Characteristics of music notation (2).....................................................................................................................88Chords...............................................................................................................................................................88Dotted notes and rests........................................................................................................................................89

Ties....................................................................................................................................................................90Introduction of notes and rests (3).........................................................................................................................91

Introducing chords.............................................................................................................................................91Dotted notes and rests........................................................................................................................................93Changing the note head - Reducing notes.........................................................................................................94

The scale and the accidentals................................................................................................................................96The scale and the musical keyboard..................................................................................................................96Tones and half tones..........................................................................................................................................96The sharp and the flat........................................................................................................................................97The natural.........................................................................................................................................................98The double sharp and the double flat................................................................................................................99

Introduction of notes and rests (4).........................................................................................................................99Placement of accidentals...................................................................................................................................99Position of an accidental..................................................................................................................................100Ties..................................................................................................................................................................101Adjustment of the stem length.........................................................................................................................102Rhythmic voices..............................................................................................................................................103

Entering notes with a music keyboard................................................................................................................104The keyboard window.....................................................................................................................................104How you can introduce notes with the keyboard?..........................................................................................106

The music typing keyboard.................................................................................................................................109Entering music faster.......................................................................................................................................109

Notes and rhythm............................................................................................................................................110Other aspects of entering music......................................................................................................................112Additional functions........................................................................................................................................114

Tuplets.................................................................................................................................................................115Triplets.............................................................................................................................................................116

Introduction of notes and rests (5).......................................................................................................................117Adding triplets and tuplets..............................................................................................................................117The enharmonic tool........................................................................................................................................121

Using the arrow tool............................................................................................................................................121Using the arrow tool........................................................................................................................................121

Deleting with the arrow tool............................................................................................................................122Optimal use of tools........................................................................................................................................123Graphic note entry tool on the staff.....................................................................................................................123

Graphic note entry tool....................................................................................................................................123Intuitive chords entry.......................................................................................................................................126Viewing note colors according to chords........................................................................................................128

Using clefs...........................................................................................................................................................128Octaves numbering..........................................................................................................................................129Using the bass clef...........................................................................................................................................129The instrument range.......................................................................................................................................129Other clefs.......................................................................................................................................................130

Writing conventions........................................................................................................................................131Using clefs...........................................................................................................................................................132

Changing the clef.............................................................................................................................................132Clef characteristics..........................................................................................................................................133

Characteristics of music notation (3)...................................................................................................................134

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Measure parameters.............................................................................................................................................183Time and key signatures indication.................................................................................................................183Measures numbering.......................................................................................................................................184Multimeasure rests..........................................................................................................................................185Free measures..................................................................................................................................................185Justification and staff lines..............................................................................................................................186

MIDI....................................................................................................................................................................186The purpose of MIDI.......................................................................................................................................186MIDI messages................................................................................................................................................186MIDI channels.................................................................................................................................................187

The instruments view..........................................................................................................................................188The instruments view......................................................................................................................................188Elements of the instruments view...................................................................................................................189Modifying the staves order..............................................................................................................................196

The scrolling score view......................................................................................................................................196The scrolling score view..................................................................................................................................196Control of the scrolling score view.................................................................................................................197

How could you learn playing the keyboard ?..................................................................................................199Global options and graphic copy.........................................................................................................................199

Advanced global options.................................................................................................................................199Graphic copy...................................................................................................................................................200Additional options...........................................................................................................................................201

Real time recording (1)........................................................................................................................................202Real time recording.........................................................................................................................................202The recorder and its options............................................................................................................................202Start recording from the musical keyboard.....................................................................................................205MIDI play options...........................................................................................................................................206

Real time recording (2)........................................................................................................................................207Tracks and staves.............................................................................................................................................208Transcription...................................................................................................................................................208Quantization....................................................................................................................................................212Recording multiple voices - Correcting the notes...........................................................................................214

Transposition.......................................................................................................................................................216Transposition...................................................................................................................................................216Intervals...........................................................................................................................................................217Diatonic and chromatic transposition..............................................................................................................218

Transposing and justifying measures..................................................................................................................219Transposing measures.....................................................................................................................................219

Justifying measures.........................................................................................................................................221Justification options.........................................................................................................................................222Page layout..........................................................................................................................................................225

What is page layout?.......................................................................................................................................225Page setup structure in Pizzicato.....................................................................................................................225Page layout dialog box....................................................................................................................................227Page contextual menu......................................................................................................................................231Modifying the layout of measures and systems..............................................................................................233Printing the score.............................................................................................................................................234Show or hide the staves of a system................................................................................................................235

Creation assistant and parts extraction................................................................................................................236

Creation assistant.............................................................................................................................................236Part extraction..................................................................................................................................................237

Measures versions...............................................................................................................................................239Measures versions...........................................................................................................................................239Duplicate / delete a version.............................................................................................................................240

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The main symbols...............................................................................................................................................240Why add symbols?..........................................................................................................................................241

Nuances...........................................................................................................................................................241Tempo markings..............................................................................................................................................242Ornament.........................................................................................................................................................242Other various symbols ....................................................................................................................................242

Graphic and MIDI symbols.................................................................................................................................244Palettes, tools and symbols..............................................................................................................................244Adding a symbol in the score..........................................................................................................................244Erasing a symbol.............................................................................................................................................246Moving or resizing a symbol...........................................................................................................................246

The text tool.........................................................................................................................................................248Creation of a text block...................................................................................................................................248Moving, modifying and erasing a text block...................................................................................................250Adding a title / Page numbers.........................................................................................................................251

Bar lines and repeats............................................................................................................................................252The various bar lines.......................................................................................................................................253

Repeats............................................................................................................................................................253Other repeat signs............................................................................................................................................253

Bar lines and repeats............................................................................................................................................255Modifying bar lines.........................................................................................................................................255Simulation of repeats.......................................................................................................................................256

Lyrics...................................................................................................................................................................257Introduction of lyrics in the score....................................................................................................................258Connecting or extending syllables..................................................................................................................259Adjusting the position of lyrics lines - Note names........................................................................................260The lyrics fast encoding window.....................................................................................................................261

The chords library...............................................................................................................................................262Consulting the library......................................................................................................................................263Modifying the symbols....................................................................................................................................264Modifying the library......................................................................................................................................264

The chord tool.....................................................................................................................................................265Adding, moving and erasing chords on the score...........................................................................................265Adjusting chords globally...............................................................................................................................267Converting chords into notes...........................................................................................................................267

The chords progression window..........................................................................................................................269Fast encoding and visualization of chords......................................................................................................269

The use of rhythmic voices and colors................................................................................................................271

Rhythmic voices..............................................................................................................................................271Using rhythmic voices.....................................................................................................................................272Using colors.....................................................................................................................................................273Making a note or a rest invisible.....................................................................................................................274

The guitar tools....................................................................................................................................................274Principles of fretted instruments......................................................................................................................274The guitar fretboard window...........................................................................................................................275Tablatures........................................................................................................................................................276Using tablatures...............................................................................................................................................277Tablature parameters.......................................................................................................................................278Chords diagrams..............................................................................................................................................280

The diagrams library.......................................................................................................................................282The tablatures library.......................................................................................................................................285

Graphic options and automatisms.......................................................................................................................286Graphic options...............................................................................................................................................286Automatisms....................................................................................................................................................288

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Reading and writing Midi files............................................................................................................................288The Midi file....................................................................................................................................................289Exporting a Midi file.......................................................................................................................................289Importing a Midi file.......................................................................................................................................290What is a MusicXML file ?.............................................................................................................................292Import a MusicXML or NIFF file in Pizzicato...............................................................................................292

Export a score in MusicXML..........................................................................................................................293Export to PDF..................................................................................................................................................294

Contextual menus and MIDI data modification..................................................................................................294Contextual menu of a note...............................................................................................................................294Contextual menu of a measures selection.......................................................................................................296

The musical effects view.....................................................................................................................................297Musical effects................................................................................................................................................297The musical effects view.................................................................................................................................299Modifying the symbol effects..........................................................................................................................300Creating free musical effects...........................................................................................................................301

The graphic editor...............................................................................................................................................303

The graphic note editor view...........................................................................................................................303The use of colours...........................................................................................................................................306Composing drum patterns...............................................................................................................................308

Editing graphic and Midi symbols (1).................................................................................................................309Graphic and Midi symbols..............................................................................................................................309Tools palettes...................................................................................................................................................309Creating a new palette.....................................................................................................................................311Importing the tools created with a previous version of Pizzicato...................................................................312

Editing graphic and Midi symbols (2).................................................................................................................313Creating a new tool - Assigning a keyboard shortcut.....................................................................................313Bitmap graphic editor......................................................................................................................................315

Editing graphic and Midi symbols (3).................................................................................................................317Creation of a symbol for the score..................................................................................................................317The vectorial editor.........................................................................................................................................318

Editing graphic and Midi symbols (4).................................................................................................................327Creation of a curve..........................................................................................................................................327The graphic side of symbols............................................................................................................................327Examples of symbols.......................................................................................................................................330

Editing graphic and Midi symbols (5).................................................................................................................331Midi effects on the score performance............................................................................................................331Examples of Midi effects................................................................................................................................337

Modifying a symbol locally................................................................................................................................339Local modifications.........................................................................................................................................339Examples of local modifications.....................................................................................................................341

Learning the musical keyboard...........................................................................................................................342How to learn the keyboard with Pizzicato?.....................................................................................................342Organizing the screen......................................................................................................................................343Progressive exercises generator.......................................................................................................................344Listening to the exercise and learning how to play it......................................................................................346Fingering.........................................................................................................................................................346Sounds.............................................................................................................................................................347Learning progression.......................................................................................................................................348

Learning to play with an accompaniment.......................................................................................................349Composition tools - Instruments.........................................................................................................................350

Instruments......................................................................................................................................................350Using the instruments......................................................................................................................................353The instrument colors......................................................................................................................................356

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Audio tracks........................................................................................................................................................356Audio or MIDI?...............................................................................................................................................356What is an audio track?...................................................................................................................................357Adding an audio track.....................................................................................................................................358Audio setup......................................................................................................................................................359Using an ASIO driver......................................................................................................................................360

Creating an audio file..........................................................................................................................................361Export a score to an audio file.........................................................................................................................361

The audio editor...................................................................................................................................................363Accessing the audio editor..............................................................................................................................364The various parts of the audio window...........................................................................................................364Specifying the file area to play........................................................................................................................366Selecting the working area..............................................................................................................................366Modifying the selected area............................................................................................................................367Zooming..........................................................................................................................................................371File operations.................................................................................................................................................371Recording an audio file...................................................................................................................................373

Modifying the wave directly...........................................................................................................................374Miscellaneous options of the editor.................................................................................................................375

The virtual instruments........................................................................................................................................375What is a virtual instrument?...........................................................................................................................376Using the virtual instruments..........................................................................................................................376

The audio/Midi/Score window............................................................................................................................378The purpose of the audio/midi/score window.................................................................................................379Audio conversion - Example 1 - Guitar..........................................................................................................379Audio conversion - Example 2 - Guitar..........................................................................................................384Audio conversion - Example 3 - Flute............................................................................................................385Audio conversion - Example 4 - Piano...........................................................................................................387Audio conversion - Example 5 - Polyphony...................................................................................................388Importing a MIDI file......................................................................................................................................389Selection of an audio or MIDI section............................................................................................................391Conversion parameters....................................................................................................................................391

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Introduction To Pizzicato

Versions of Pizzicato

The user manual of Pizzicato

Goals of Pizzicato

Versions of Pizzicato

We thank you for buying Pizzicato and we wish you welcome in its new musical universe.

Pizzicato 3.6 is oriented around eleven versions. Pizzicato Professional contains every function you can find inthis manual. The other 10 versions contain only a specific set of these functions, oriented around a more specificuse of Pizzicato. Here is a short description of each version.

Pizzicato Light

It is a basic version making it possible to learn music, make exercises, write small scores (1 or 2pages) and use basic MIDI and audio recording features. You may also start to learn musiccomposition and the musical keyboard.

Pizzicato Beginner

It is basically a general score editor, up to 16 staves (instruments). It comprises more functionalitiesthan Pizzicato Light, like the fast encoding of lyrics and chords, MIDI functions, the global editing

view,.... It also contains the music course.

Pizzicato Professional

Contains a multitude of additional functions and possibilities, compared to the Beginner version.Among others, it contains a whole set of innovative and intuitive tools to help compose your ownmusic. It opens the door of music composition to everyone, even with little or no music knowledge.

The tools and options of this version give you a very powerful score editor as well as many tools torefine the interpretation of a score in MIDI, as well as many tools to practise music composition.

Pizzicato Notation

This is the full featured music notation version. It contains all the tools of Pizzicato Professionaloriented toward music notation.

Pizzicato Composition Light

This low cost version, as well as the next one, are designed specifically around music composition.Contains many tools to help the beginner to start composing his own music.

Pizzicato Composition Pro

Contains all the advanced intuitive composition tools of Pizzicato Professional. You can export yourcomposition as a MIDI file, a musicXML file or audio file, to be used by any other music notationor sequencer program.

Pizzicato Drums and Percussion

This low cost version is designed specifically for music notation of drums and percussioninstruments. Print and hear your drums and percussion scores.

Pizzicato Guitar

This low cost version is designed specifically for music notation of guitar. Print and hear your guitarscores, including tablatures and guitar chords diagrams.

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Pizzicato Choir

This low cost version is designed specifically for music notation for the choir. Print and hear yourchoir sheet music, including lyrics.

Pizzicato Keyboard

This low cost version is designed specifically for music notation for the keyboard. Print and hearyour keyboard sheet music, including cross-staff beaming and many advanced keyboard notationfeatures.

Pizzicato Soloist

This low cost version is designed specifically for music notation for one staff. Print and hear yoursolo sheet music, including lyrics and chords. Fits any solo instrument written on one staff.

These versions are used under license, when you buy one of these versions of Pizzicato. These versions alsoexist in evaluation and shareware and they may be used free of charge. Here are their limitations, compared tothe licensed versions.

Pizzicato Shareware versionFree version of Pizzicato Light, during one month, starting with the installation of the program on acomputer. This version has all the features of Pizzicato Light. It nevertheless prints the scores with aPizzicato mosaic background. This version follows the guide lines of Shareware software andimplies that if the user wants to continue using it after the first month, he must buy the user license.

With this version, you may save audio files that are not longer than one minute. It does not containthe sound library.

Pizzicato - Evaluation versions of the other 10 Pizzicato versions

Does not allow to save your work, nor to export it in MIDI, audio, graphic or musicXML

Does not allow to print Does not contain the sound library

Does not permit chord finding for harmonization (if applicable).

When you install Pizzicato on your computer, whether from a DVD or after downloading it from the Internet,all versions are installed at the same time. In other words, these multiple versions are in fact the same software.

All free version may be used. You can switch from on version to the other through the Program version /Updates... itemof the Optionsmenu or directly through the Working modemenu of the Optionsmenu.

This can help you to try out any of the version. You may buy multiple licenses (for instance, Pizzicato Guitarand Pizzicato Drums) and by registering these two licenses, you will then be able to work with these two

licensed versions, as well as with the other 9 free evaluation versions.By installing the evaluation version, you can use it also as a reader for Pizzicato documents. If someone sendsyou a Pizzicato file, you can download the evaluation version for free and if you do not modify the document,you can print it, export to MIDI, audio or musicXML.

The user manual of Pizzicato

The instruction manual is designed as a progressive approach of music, computers and Pizzicato. It is dividedinto a series of lessons each one treating a particular subject. Most of these lessons are made of a succession ofpractical steps that you are asked to perform with Pizzicato. The attention is laid on a balance between practice

and theory.Each lesson covers music, computer or the use of Pizzicato. The tables of content contain the references of eachlesson. These divisions of the manual enable you to easily adapt your reading to your knowledge level. Theprofessional musician will skip the music lessons and the well-informed in computer will skip the pages relatedto the computer.

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In a general way, the lessons follow a progressive order. If you want to have a total control of Pizzicato, weadvise you to study them in the exact sequence. If you are initially only interested by certain subjects of Pizzicato(music learning, score editor, Midi sequencer, composing or accompaniment), you can skip the lessons specificto the other fields. The introduction of a lesson shows each time the subjects covered and helps you estimate ifthe lesson is interesting for you or not.

You will also find a glossary that includes most of the words relating to music, computer or Pizzicato. Use iteach time you don't fully understand the meaning of a word. Continuing to study the course without

understanding the words can only create problems. Therefore, use the glossary abundantly! In the text of thelessons, the new introduced words are directly related to the glossary by a link. When dragging the mouse over it,the cursor becomes a hand. Click it and you get access to the definition of the word in the glossary.

According to the Pizzicato version you bought, a paper manual contains the main lessons required to learn toused the program. The screen documentation nevertheless includes all the lessons for each version. According tothe consulted manual, you only access the lessons concerning the version you have. Many lessons are commonto all versions and some indicate differences between versions. You will find for instance, a list of the Pizzicato

versions relevant to each main division of a lesson.

Goals of Pizzicato

The design and creation of Pizzicato began in 1992. With Pizzicato, our goal is to create a software to approachmusic and computer without any preliminary knowledge of these subjects, while offering a maximum number ofmusical features to the professional. The future releases of Pizzicato will continue in that direction.

In order to be informed on the evolution of Pizzicato and to be able to access our technical support, we kindlyrequest you to register yourself as an official user of Pizzicato. You can do so by returning the registration cardincluded in your software package or directly register on our Web site.

For any question regarding Pizzicato, you can contact our international technical support:

Arpege - Music29, rue de l'Enseignement

4800 VERVIERSBelgium

Tel ++32 87-55.23.60Fax ++32 87-26.80.10

or consult us on the Internet. Our site is:www.arpegemusic.com Our E-mail address [email protected]

Announce your license number to the support staff. If your question concerns an installation problem or isrelated to the use of the program, please be in front of your computer while calling. We will help you as best as

we can. The best way is an e-mail with full description of the problem. We usually answer within 24 hours inworking days.

Do not hesitate to report to us in writing all the improvements and new functionalities you can think of. We willtake your remarks into account for the development of future releases of Pizzicato. Our goal is to transformPizzicato into your ideal work platform for computer-assisted music. To this end, your point of view isimportant to us.

All this being said, you are now ready to get to the heart of the matter: music on your computer. We wish youmuch pleasure in your discovery of the musical and software universe of Pizzicato!

Dominique Vandenneucker

Designer of Pizzicato

The mouse

What is the mouse?

Buttons of the mouse

Pointing

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Clicking

Double-clicking

Clicking/dragging

What is the mouse?

The mouse is a small object attached to your computer or your keyboard by a cable. Its structure is made to

easily slide on a plane surface, next to your keyboard. In its lower part, it has a small ball which makes it possibleto collect the changes of position.

When you slide it from left to right or backwards and forwards, the ball collects your movements and transmitsthem to the computer through the connecting cable . The computer then interprets these movements to move asmall picture on your screen. This picture is called the mouse cursor. Most of the time, it is represented by anarrow, but according to the context, it can have various appearances:

If you move the mouse to the right, the cursor follows your movement and moves to the right of the screen.The same principle applies for all directions. You need to hold the mouse in the correct direction, with theconnection cable most distant from you.

Take care to have sufficient place beside your keyboard to handle the mouse. By moving it, you can bring thecursor to any place on the screen. If you are not yet accustomed to it, train yourself to move the cursor and tobring it to various precise locations on the screen. It is important to control the moving of the cursor well,because much of the operations will be carried out using the mouse. It is not difficult, it is a simple matter ofhabit.

Buttons of the mouse

On its upper part, the mouse has one or more buttons. When it has several buttons, it is usually the left buttonthat is used by most programs. The right button, when present, is often used to reach a contextual menu, i.e. alist of actions related to the location where you clicked.

For the Mac version of Pizzicato, if the mouse only has one button, when you are asked to use the right buttonin the manual, you can use the single button of the Macintosh mouse while holding down the "Option" (or"ALT") key of the Macintosh keyboard. It is the key located on the two sides of the space bar, between the"Apple" key and the "CTRL" key.

By pushing or releasing the button, you can carry out the most various operations, according to the location ofthe cursor at that time. Four types of operations can be carried out with the mouse:

point click

double-click

click and drag

Here is a description of each operation. Be certain to understand them well, because they will very often appearin the manual.

Pointing

This operation simply consists of placing the mouse cursor at a precise location of the screen. It is important toknow that the active area of the cursor is its point. If you are asked to point a small square, you should thusplace the mouse in such a way that the point of the cursor is inside this square:

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Correct Not correct

This operation of pointing is preliminary to the other operations. It is first necessary to place the cursor at thegood location before starting another operation.

Clicking

It is the most current operation. You press the button and release it immediately, without moving the mousebetween the two.

When you are asked to click on (or in) an item, it means that you must first point this item with the cursor (bymoving the mouse) and then push and release the mouse button.

The action to push and release the button is called a click. According to the type of the clicked item, the actionwill be different. It is often used to carry out a choice or to execute an action. We will later study the types ofgraphical items that you will run into.

Double-clicking

As its name may indicate it, one executes two clicks one after the other, at the same location (without movingthe mouse between the two) and without waiting between the two clicks. On average, this time between twoclicks will not exceed half a second. If you wait too long between the two, your action will be interpreted as twosimple clicks and not as a double-click.

The 4 actions must follow one another quickly:

press the button,

release the button,

press the button,

release the button.

The mouse should not be moved between these 4 operations otherwise the double-click will not be valid. Whenyou are asked to double-click an item, it means that you must first point this item with the cursor (by moving themouse) and then execute the 4 actions given above. When you execute a double-click that does not produce theexpected effect, it means that you either execute these 4 operations not fast enough or you move the mouseduring the operation. Train yourself!

This operation is called a double click. According to the type of the double-clicked item, the action will bedifferent. It is often used to open a graphic element and to see its contents.

Clicking/dragging

This operation makes it possible to move a graphic element on the screen. The principle is the same as movingan object on your desk: you seize it, move it to another location and put it down. With the mouse, theoperations become:

point the graphic object on the screen with the mouse,

push and hold down the mouse button (= seize the object),

drag the mouse to another location (= move the object),

release the mouse button (= release the object).

The time that goes by between these operations is not important. You can take your time to move the mousebefore releasing the button.

When you are asked to click and drag an item, it means the four operations given above. The word "click" canalso be omitted and you will simply be asked to drag an item from one location to another.

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This operation is used to move graphic objects on the screen, to change the size of a graphic object and to selecta choice among several available actions or options.

Installing Pizzicato

Installing Pizzicato Starting Pizzicato

License registration

Exit Pizzicato

Installing Pizzicato

The installation of Pizzicato consists of copying all necessary files onto the hard disk of your computer. Thisoperation must be done before you can start using Pizzicato.

You need to follow the procedure explained in this lesson. If you cannot execute one or more steps, do nothesitate to contact our support department. Together, we will solve the problem.

The Pizzicato manual includes several lessons on computer basics. If computers are brand new to you, you canrefer to these pages as a first approach. We also advise you to read the introduction manual of Windows orMacintosh. Also play the guided tour offered by Windows or Mac. It will teach you the essential data to handleyour computer.

To install Pizzicato on Windows, execute the following steps (for Mac, see below):

Insert the Pizzicato DVD in your DVD drive or double-click the downloaded file if you possessthe electronic version of Pizzicato.

If the installation program does not start by itself, do the following:1. Clickthe Startbutton in the Windows toolbar2. ClickExecute...3. Type D:setup using the keyboard (Dis the letter corresponding to your DVD drive) and click

OK4. If you don't know the letter associated with your DVD drive, click the Browse... button and

double-click the Working stationon the Desk. Then double-click the icon representing theDVD drive and double-click the Setup file (or Setup.exe)

Follow the instructions that appear on the screen

Once the installation is finished, you can withdraw the Pizzicato DVD from the drive

To install Pizzicato on Macintosh, do the following steps:

Insert the Pizzicato DVD in your DVD drive or double-click the downloaded file if you possessthe electronic version of Pizzicato.

With the DVD, double-click the "Pizzicato 3.6 - EN.zip". This will create a folder "Pizzicato 3.x"that will go by default into the downloaded file folder. You can drag it to the application folder ofthe Mac.

Once the installation is done, you can remove the Pizzicato DVD from the drive.

Starting Pizzicato

The launching of Pizzicato (or starting) is the operation which makes it possible for Pizzicato to take the controlof the computer. From this moment, Pizzicato is active and you can use it as indicated in each lesson of thismanual.

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To start Pizzicato under Windows, click the Startbutton, clickProgramsthen Pizzicato 3.xand again Pizzicato. Tostart Pizzicato on Mac OS X, open your Macintosh hard disk; in theApplicationsfolder, you will find the Pizzicato3.xfolder. Inside this folder, double-click the "Pizzicato" file. The program starts.

The first time, on Mac or Windows, Pizzicato lets you choose the working version of Pizzicato and asks you tofill in your license and serial numbers. Let us see this in detail.

License registration

When starting Pizzicato for the first time, the following dialog box appears:

If you bought Pizzicato, select Licence registrationand fill in the three text boxes, respectively with:

The license number : it is located on the Pizzicato DVD box or in the instruction e-mail and contains 5digits

The serial number: also located on the DVD box or in the instruction e-mail, it contains 4 groups of 4digits separated by the minus sign "-". It is thus of the form: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx. It is important tointroduce these 19 characters (16 digits and three "-" signs) without intermediate spaces.

Your name: the name which will appear on the registration card (or Internet registration)

If you did not buy Pizzicato and got the program on a demo DVD, from Internet or through a friend, you canuse the options in the right column, which do not require a license number:

Shareware Version (free use of Pizzicato Light for one month starting with the installation)

The 10 other evaluation versions of Pizzicato (with save, print or export functions disabled)

ClickOK. If you do not have a licence (evaluation or shareware), Pizzicato starts.According to the version youhave, a dialog box may appear, asking for apersonal code. If it does not appear, the installation is finished.Otherwise, do the following.

Pizzicato is protected by apersonal code system. This personal code can be calculated by us only after theinstallation of Pizzicato on your computer. This is why you will not find this code on the original DVD nor in

the box of the software nor in the instruction e-mail of the electronic version.

So that we can communicate thispersonal code to you, please send us your license and identificationnumbers located on the top left corner of this dialog box.

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If your computer is connected to the Internet, you will find in this dialog a button that will help you to send therequest for a personal code. Fill in that dialog and validate. It is the easiest method as you will receive thepersonal code by e-mail usually within ten minutes.

You can use the software for 20 hours without the personal code. After that, it will run in Shareware mode(without license) or evaluation mode.

To receive your personal code, you can also go on the registration page and fill in the registration form,it is the fastest way to receive it :

www.arpegemusic.com/clients2.htm

You may also reach this page through the Help menu of Pizzicato, Online Registration...

As long as you do not introduce your personal code, this dialog box appears automatically when launchingPizzicato. When you receive your personal code, fill it into the text area of this dialog box and clickOK. Use thecopy/paste function to avoid any error. If the code is correct, this dialog will no more appear. Pizzicato ispermanently installed on your computer.

Exit Pizzicato

To exit (quit) Pizzicato, you must click in the Filemenu (for Mac, in the Pizzicato menu) located in the menu bar,and then on the Exititem. Pizzicato terminates. You can obtain the same result by holding down the ALT keyand pressing the F4 key on PC or "Apple" + "Q" on Mac.

If computers are very new for you, we advise you to read the lessons regarding computers, which follow thislesson. They explain to you the basics of computers and the various graphic elements which you will meet inyour work with Pizzicato. If you are accustomed to computers, go directly to the Pizzicato manual and/or to themusic course. Have a nice time!

The computer and its interface (1) What is a computer?

Communicating with a computer

The screen and windows

Menus

Dialog boxes

What is a computer?

A computer is a machine which can very quickly execute a series of instructions that somebody gave it. It doesnot think by itself. It is limited to apply reasoning that a person (the programmer) thought and developed for it.

A computer program, also called a software, is a series of instructions and reasoning prepared to provide aservice in a specific field. Pizzicato is a software enabling you to compose, to play musical scores and to provideyou with a whole series of services related to music.

To be used, a software must be introduced into the computer. By starting the software, its instructions takecontrol of the computer. The user can then direct the software and work with it to obtain results from it in therelated field.

Unlike a computer, a software is not a physical thing or an object. It is a series of reasoning, methods and

directives which will control the computer. It is information. When you buy a software, it is provided to you onone or more diskettes or CDs which are used as a support. The data on the disks constitute the instructions ofthe software. The software installation procedure simply consists in copying these data into the computer so thatthe computer can use them.

The hard disk of a computer is a permanent data medium, i.e. when you switch off the computer, informationwritten on the hard disk is preserved. It is on the hard disk that the software is copied during the installation, so

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that it is once and for all in the computer. The capacity of a hard disk is indicated in Mega Bytes (MB) or GigaBytes (GB). 1 MB corresponds to one million text characters, which is equivalent to more than 200 pages of text

with 60 lines of 80 characters on each page . 1 GB equals 1000 MB. The smallest hard disks currently make tensof GB and go up to several hundreds of GB. 1 TB (Tera byte) corresponds to 1000 GB.

The random access memory of the computer is a data medium used during the execution of a program. Aprogram needs a certain amount of random access memory to work correctly. This memory is called "RAM"("Random Access Memory", which means that data can be reached at any time or place in the memory,

randomly). The RAM of a computer is measured in MB. Its usual size goes from 1 GB to many GB. Therandom access memory is the working memory of the computer. When you switch off the computer, its contentis lost. By creating a document of word processing, it is created in RAM. Before switching off the computer, thedocument must be written on the hard disk so that it is not lost. It happens this way for most software programslike word processing, drawing programs, etc.

Communicating with a computer

You need a way to give your instructions to the computer. Similarly, when the program wants to tell yousomething or to show you the result of its actions, you must be able to perceive it.

The keyboard and the mouse let you control the computer. Thanks to these two elements you will direct thecomputer actions.

The screen helps your computer to show you the results of your work. It is used together with the mouse andthe keyboard to allow a fast and effective communication between the user and the software. The software willalso use the printer to give you the results on paper. In Pizzicato, the computer can also control musical externalinstruments enabling you to hear the sound of your work.

The elements helping you to communicate with the computer are called the user interface.

The screen and windows

The screen of the computer is a working area. It is like a desk on which you can place documents that you canmodify and classify.

As the screen is used to visualize your work, it is structured in distinct graphical elements that one canmanipulate. Only a small number of these elements constitute the essence of the communication between thecomputer and the user. We thus propose you to study these elements in this lesson and the following.

From one computer to another and one program to another, the graphical aspect of these elements will vary.The design, the color, the thickness of lines, the styles of characters personalize programs and computers.

The screen of the computer comprises rectangular graphical areas which are called windows. You can comparethem with paper sheets that you place on a desk. Here are the various parts under Windows and Macrespectively (Please note that the graphic aspect may vary from one version to another of Mac or Windows, butthe main principles stay the same):

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On Mac OS X, the three boxes (close, reduce and zoom) are in the upper left corner of the window. The otherelements are very similar.

What you see here constitutes one window. It is a graphical unit of which you can change the size and position.Each program creates its own window at startup. Often, with the launching of a program, the size of the created

window occupies the full screen. When you use the program, it will create other windows according to what is

needed. For example, if you open several documents in the same program, the following setup shows the twowindows (representing the two documents), respectively on Windows and Mac:

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On Windows, the two internal windows are called "child windows". They are always inside the main window(parent window). On Mac, each window appears independently. Note that the second window is located abovethe other. It is hiding a part of it. The analogy with paper sheets on a desk is still valid. When you place a paperon another paper, it is entirely visible and hiding part of the other.

When clicking in a window which is below another, you can bring it to the front, like this (respectively onWindows and Mac):

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Now let us examine the elements present in a window.

Documents

Music Notation Software User Guide (Pizzicato Notation)