The Norfolk family of fonts is a derivative of Bravura that is expressly reconfigured to work within Sibelius. Bravura is the first SMuFL-compliant music font family, designed by Daniel Spreadbury at Steinberg for Dorico, its scoring application.
Steinberg describes Bravura as drawing upon the heritage of the finest European music engraving of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a bolder and more substantial look than most other music fonts: thin strokes are slightly thicker than in other fonts, improving the overall “blackness” of the font and its legibility when read at a distance.
More informationBecause Sibelius does not support SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout), a series of derivative fonts needed to be created in order for Bravura to be compatible with Sibelius. These fonts are:
- Norfolk Std
- Norfolk Text Std
- Norfolk Special Std
- Norfolk Special II Std
- Norfolk Special Extra Std
- Norfolk Ornaments Std
- Norfolk Metronome Std
- Norfolk Chords Std
- Norfolk PlainChords Std
- Norfolk Chords Sans Std
- Norfolk PlainChords Sans Std
- Norfolk Chords ASC Std
- Norfolk Chords ASL Std
- Norfolk Chords Sans ASC Std
- Norfolk Chords Sans ASL Std
- Norfolk Harp Std
Each Norfolk font is intended as a replacement for its analogous Opus font, with the exception of:
- Special II, which is an additional font containing Bravura characters not found or easily replaced in Opus, such as precomposed octave clefs;
- Harp Std, which is an additional font containing Bravura characters for use with harp techniques;
- The ASC/ASL Std fonts, additional fonts to achieve chord symbols that place an altered bass note underneath an angled separator in a diagonal arrangement, like this:
Included with the Norfolk fonts are:
- Academico, a serif text font designed by Daniel Spreadbury at Steinberg for Dorico and intended to pair well with Norfolk Chords and PlainChords;
- Gothic A1, a sans-serif text font designed by HanYang I&C Co. and intended to pair well with Norfolk Chords Sans and PlainChords Sans;
- Figurato, a figured bass font designed by Florian Kretlow.
Included along with these fonts is a house style designed to take maximum advantage of Norfolk’s characteristics. The house style is otherwise similar to Standard Opus (Times), but uses the Academico font as its main text font. You do not need the house style, Academico, or Gothic A1 to use the Norfolk fonts.
Also included is a Sibelius document intended to help transfer Norfolk Harp Std characters into an existing Sibelius document.
Instructions for use
Please read the documentation included with the download for instructions.
Limitations
Norfolk Chords and Chords Sans ASC/ASL Std make use of some experimental features that are not yet fully supported in Sibelius.
The Norfolk Chords and Chords Sans ASC/ASL Std fonts will only work in Sibelius 2018.11 and higher.
For practical reasons, it was not possible to faithfully reproduce every symbol in Norfolk. Many of Sibelius’s symbols are actually composite symbols with intricate and tightly integrated positioning. Norfolk is, after all, a third-party font, and while we have tried our best to make it work as completely as possible, it is not as fully supported as the fonts that ship with Sibelius. If you have suggestions on how Norfolk can be improved, please contact us.
Credits
Norfolk derives its name from Norfolk, Connecticut, home of the Norfolk Music Festival, where Jean Sibelius conducted the premiere of his work The Oceanides during his only visit to the United States in 1914.
Matthew Maslanka of Maslanka Music Prep did all the heavy lifting porting Bravura to Norfolk, and creating the original Norfolk house style.
Jeff Kellem of Slanted Hall Type Foundry created the Norfolk chord symbol fonts, updated the Norfolk Text Std font numerals and was greatly influential in continuing to develop the Norfolk project.
Robin Walker is responsible for updating Norfolk Text Std with ligated dynamics and greatly contributed to the overall development of all of the fonts.
Bob Zawalich and Robin Walker developed the Norfolk Harp Std font and created the transfer document.
Bernie Cossentino of Twin Page Productions invented the concept of the angled slash chord font, created the Norfolk Chords ASC/ASL Std fonts based on the Norfolk Chords Std font, and greatly contributed to the overall development of the chord symbol fonts.
Bravura and Academico were designed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg Media Technologies.
Figurato was designed by Florian Kretlow.
Gothic A1 was designed by HanYang I&C Co.
Special thanks to Sam Butler of Avid Technology, Inc., for permission to use to the Opus font structure in the course of creating Norfolk.
License
The Norfolk font family is made available under the SIL Open Font License, which means that the fonts are free to download, use, embed, redistribute with other software (including commercial software) or to create derivative versions. The only restrictions on its use are that they cannot be sold on their own, any derivative versions cannot use the reserved font names “Norfolk,” “Bravura”, “Academico,” or “Gothic A1”, and any derivative versions must likewise also be licensed under the SIL Open Font License. For more information about the SIL Open Font License, read the answers to these Frequently Asked Questions.
If you make any improvements or additions to the Norfolk family, you are invited to submit those improvements to NYC Music Services for consideration for inclusion in the fonts. Please consider allowing others in the community to benefit from any improvements you make by allowing NYC Music Services to improve the core fonts, rather than choosing to create a derivative font.
The Pori family of fonts is a derivative of Petaluma that is expressly reconfigured to work within Sibelius. Petaluma is a SMuFL-compliant music font family, designed by Anthony Hughes at Steinberg for Dorico, its scoring application.
Steinberg describes Petaluma as a font family with a handwritten appearance, in the style of the hand copyists for Sher Publishing’s Real Book series, Ernie Mansfield and Ann Krinitsky.
Because Sibelius does not support SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout), a series of derivative fonts needed to be created in order for Petaluma to be compatible with Sibelius. These fonts are:
- Pori Std
- Pori Text Std
- Pori Special Std
- Pori Special II Std
- Pori Special Extra Std
- Pori Ornaments Std
- Pori Metronome Std
- Pori Chords Std
- Pori PlainChords Std
- Pori Chords ASC Std
- Pori Chords ASL Std
- Pori Rehearsal Enclosed Std
- Pori Rehearsal Overline Std
- Pori Rehearsal Underline Std
Each Pori font is intended as a replacement for its analogous Opus font, with the exception of:
- Special II, which is an additional font containing Petaluma characters not found or easily replaced in Opus, such as precomposed octave clefs;
- The Rehearsal fonts, text fonts derived from Petaluma Script with built-in enclosures and semi-enclosures;
- Pori Chords ASC Std, an additional font to achieve chord symbols that place an altered bass note underneath an angled separator in a diagonal arrangement, like this:
Included with the Pori fonts is the Petaluma Script text font, designed by Daniel Spreadbury at Steinberg for Dorico and intended to pair well with Pori.
Included along with these fonts is a house style designed to take maximum advantage of Pori’s characteristics. It uses the Petaluma Script font as its main text font. You do not need the house style to use the Pori fonts.
Instructions for use
Please read the documentation included with the download for instructions.
Limitations
Pori Chords ASC/ASL Std make use of some experimental features that are not yet fully supported in Sibelius.
The Pori Chords ASC/ASL Std fonts will only work in Sibelius 2018.11 and higher.
Please read the documentation for other limitations.
For practical reasons, it was not possible to faithfully reproduce every symbol in Pori. Many of Sibelius’s symbols are actually composite symbols with intricate and tightly integrated positioning. Pori is, after all, a third-party font, and while we have tried our best to make it work as completely as possible, it is not as fully supported as the fonts that ship with Sibelius. If you have suggestions on how Pori can be improved, please contact us.
Credits
Pori derives its name from the coastal city in Finland which is home of Pori Jazz, a large international jazz festival held annually in July. Alex Freeman suggested the name.
Jeff Kellem of Slanted Hall Type Foundry created the Pori fonts, did all the heavy lifting porting Petaluma to Pori, contributed to the Pori house style, and was greatly influential in continuing to develop the Pori project.
Bernie Cossentino of Twin Page Productions invented the concept of the angled slash chord font, created the Pori Chords ASC Std font based on the Pori Chords Std font, and greatly contributed to the overall development of the chord symbol fonts.
Bob Zawalich and Robin Walker assisted with testing and feedback of the Pori fonts.
Petaluma was designed by Anthony Hughes of Steinberg Media Technologies.
Petaluma Script was designed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg Media Technologies.
Special thanks to Sam Butler of Avid Technology, Inc., for permission to use to the Opus font structure in the course of creating Pori.
License
The Pori font family is made available under the SIL Open Font License, which means that the fonts are free to download, use, embed, redistribute with other software (including commercial software) or to create derivative versions. The only restrictions on its use are that they cannot be sold on their own, any derivative versions cannot use the reserved font name “Pori” or “Petaluma”, and any derivative versions must likewise also be licensed under the SIL Open Font License. For more information about the SIL Open Font License, read the answers to these Frequently Asked Questions.
If you make any improvements or additions to the Pori family, you are invited to submit those improvements to NYC Music Services for consideration for inclusion in the fonts. Please consider allowing others in the community to benefit from any improvements you make by allowing NYC Music Services to improve the core fonts, rather than choosing to create a derivative font.
The Lelandia family of fonts is a derivative of Leland that is expressly reconfigured to work within Sibelius. Leland is a SMuFL-compliant music font family, designed by Martin Keary and Simon Smith at Muse Group for MuseScore, its scoring application.
Leland is a font family modeled after the appearance of the symbols produced by the venerable SCORE music publishing application, and named after its creator, Leland Smith, who passed away in 2013.
More informationBecause Sibelius does not support SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout), a series of derivative fonts needed to be created in order for Leland to be compatible with Sibelius. These fonts are:
- Lelandia Std
- Lelandia Text Std
- Lelandia Special Std
- Lelandia Special II Std
- Lelandia Special Extra Std
- Lelandia Ornaments Std
- Lelandia Metronome Std
Each Lelandia font is intended as a replacement for its analogous Opus font, with the exception of Special II, which is an additional font containing Leland characters not found or easily replaced in Opus, such as precomposed octave clefs.
Included with the Lelandia fonts are:
- Academico, a serif text font designed by Daniel Spreadbury at Steinberg for Dorico and intended to pair well with Lelandia;
- Gothic A1, a sans-serif text font designed by HanYang I&C Co, for compatibility with other fonts and products released by NYC Music Services;
- Figurato, a figured bass font designed by Florian Kretlow.
Included along with these fonts is a Sibelius template with a house style designed to take maximum advantage of Lelandia’s characteristics. The house style is a simplified version of the house style used in the Scoring Express Chamber templates, but uses Lelandia as its main music font. Although you do not need the house style or the Academico font to use the Lelandia fonts, they are recommended.
Instructions for use
Please read the documentation included with the download for instructions.
Limitations
For practical reasons, it was not possible to faithfully reproduce every symbol in Lelandia. Many of Sibelius’s symbols are actually composite symbols with intricate and tightly integrated positioning. Lelandia is, after all, a third-party font, and while we have tried our best to make it work as completely as possible, it is not as fully supported as the fonts that ship with Sibelius. If you have suggestions on how Lelandia can be improved, please contact us.
In certain instances, when no Leland symbol was available to incorporate into Lelandia, the corresponding Norfolk glyph was substituted in its place.
Credits
The name “Lelandia” is an homage to “Leland” and “Finlandia”, in keeping with the Finnish theme of other Sibelius items.
Jeff Kellem of Slanted Hall Type Foundry did all the heavy lifting porting Leland to Lelandia, and assisting in refining the house style.
Matthew Maslanka of Maslanka Music Prep did all the heavy lifting porting Bravura to Norfolk, and creating the original Norfolk house style, upon which elements of the Lelandia house style are derived.
Leland was designed by Martin Keary and Simon Smith of MuseScore BVBA.
Bravura and Academico were designed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg Media Technologies.
Figurato was designed by Florian Kretlow.
Gothic A1 was designed by HanYang I&C Co.
Special thanks to Sam Butler of Avid Technology, Inc., for permission to use to the Opus font structure in the course of creating Norfolk.
License
The Lelandia font family is made available under the SIL Open Font License, which means that the fonts are free to download, use, embed, redistribute with other software (including commercial software) or to create derivative versions. The only restrictions on its use are that they cannot be sold on their own, any derivative versions cannot use the reserved font names “Lelandia,” “Leland”, “Academico,” or “Gothic A1”, and any derivative versions must likewise also be licensed under the SIL Open Font License. For more information about the SIL Open Font License, read the answers to these Frequently Asked Questions.
If you make any improvements or additions to the Lelandia family, you are invited to submit those improvements to NYC Music Services for consideration for inclusion in the fonts. Please consider allowing others in the community to benefit from any improvements you make by allowing NYC Music Services to improve the core fonts, rather than choosing to create a derivative font.
PDF-BatchScale quickly scales many PDF files to any size PDF. Originally intended to scale sheet music of different sizes, PDF-BatchScale should work on most PDFs, for any purpose. It’s the quickest way to resize many PDFs with one click!
PDF-BatchScale PDF scales the original PDF to the specified size of the output PDF by the largest percentage possible while still fitting within the dimensions of the output PDF. The aspect ratio of the original PDF doesn’t change, so if the output page size is different than the original PDF, PDF-BatchScale PDF will automatically add margins to the output PDF as needed.
Simply drag and drop your files onto the application window, or click the Add button to locate them in your file browser.
Choose from many standard page sizes, such as ISO, North American or music sizes, or input your own custom size.
You can also change page orientation, add margins, add a prefix or suffix to the filename of the newly-generated PDF file.
Specify a new output directory or use the source directory.
Credits
The PDF Batch Utilities were developed by Abraham Lee with input from Philip Rothman.
Yiyang Wang troubleshooted and updated the most recent version of applications to run on current operating systems.
License
The PDF Batch Utilities are free software but you can support development by naming your own price, either at the time you register to download the software, or later, via our donation area.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
PDF-BatchBooklet quickly creates booklets from many PDF files. Originally intended to make booklets for sheet music, PDF-BatchBooklet should work on most PDFs, for any purpose. It’s the quickest way to make booklets from PDFs with one click!
PDF-BatchBooklet creates booklets by imposing the pages for printing. The original image size is retained. For instance, it will take letter-size pages (8.5”x11”) and impose them on 17”x11” paper. It can impose the pages to make a traditional booklet to be printed double-sided, or it can also make an accordion-style booklet to be printed on single-sided paper. An option to allow half-sheets is also available.
Simply drag and drop your files onto the application window, or click the Add button to locate them in your file browser.
Choose Folded Booklet Order to create a traditional booklet for double-sided printing.
Choose Allow half sheets to create a double-sided insert on the same size page as the original PDF.
Choose Straight Page Order to create an accordion-style book for single-sided printing.
Choose Allow half sheets for the last page in an odd-numbered PDF to be created on the same size page as the original PDF.
Optionally add a prefix or suffix to the filename of the newly-generated PDF file.
Specify a new output directory or use the source directory.
Credits
The PDF Batch Utilities were developed by Abraham Lee with input from Philip Rothman.
Yiyang Wang troubleshooted and updated the most recent version of applications to run on current operating systems.
License
The PDF Batch Utilities are free software but you can support development by naming your own price, either at the time you register to download the software, or later, via our donation area.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
PDF-BatchStitch is the free and fast utility that combines multiple PDFs into one file, along with the option to set the number of copies for any of the PDFs.
PDF-BatchStitch quickly combines many PDF files into one PDF.
Simply drag and drop your files onto the application window, or click the Add Files button to locate them in your file browser.
Set the number of copies per part, and re-order by using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
If you plan on printing double-sided, but want to ensure each file starts on the "top" side of the paper, be sure to click the Add blank sheet to the end of files with an odd number of pages checkbox.
Click Combine to save the file. A window will appear prompting you for the file name and location.
Credits
The PDF Batch Utilities were developed by Abraham Lee with input from Philip Rothman.
Yiyang Wang troubleshooted and updated the most recent version of applications to run on current operating systems.
License
The PDF Batch Utilities are free software but you can support development by naming your own price, either at the time you register to download the software, or later, via our donation area.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
PDF-MusicBinder is a fast way to create consolidated PDFs for easy printing for either accordion-style layout or stapled imposed booklets.
PDF-MusicBinder takes single-sided PDFs that are generally outputted from notation software, and rearranges them into PDFs that can be printed on larger size paper and then folded. It can even resize the PDF in one step.
Simply drag and drop your files onto the application window, or click the Add Files button to locate them in your file browser.
Choose from many standard page sizes, such as ISO, North American or music sizes, or input your own custom size.
You can also change page orientation and add margins.
Choose Folded Booklet Order to create a traditional booklet for double-sided printing.
Choose Allow 1-up Sheets to create a double-sided insert on the same size page as the original PDF.
Choose Straight Page Order to create an accordion-style book for single-sided printing.
Choose Allow 1-up Sheets for the last page in an odd-numbered PDF to be created on the same size page as the original PDF.
Optionally add a prefix or suffix to the filename of the newly-generated PDF file(s).
Specify a new output directory or use the source directory. PDF-MusicBinder will create a complete binder of 2-up files (and 1-up files, if necessary) that will be print-ready.
View this instructional video for an overview of how to use PDF-MusicBinder:
Credits
The PDF Batch Utilities were developed by Abraham Lee with input from Philip Rothman.
Robert Puff contributed input to PDF-MusicBinder.
Yiyang Wang troubleshooted and updated the most recent version of applications to run on current operating systems.
License
The PDF Batch Utilities are free software but you can support development by naming your own price, either at the time you register to download the software, or later, via our donation area.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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- Execute Commands January 24, 2025__Original version 01.14.00 added 25 February 2021. __From lists of available commands- add commands to a Command List, then choose Execute to run them after the dialog comes down. __You can also Export or Import a list of commands. The exported files will be stored in a subfolder of your default Scores folder called Execute_Commands, […]
- Delete Duplicate Text Lines Symbols January 15, 2025Deletes copies of text objects, lines, or symbols that have the same properties and location as another object of the same type. Updated 19 March 2018. Internal code cleanup, no change in results. Updated 21 March 2018. For System objects, the Y offset field, which is not valid, is no longer used to evaulate duplicate […]
- Reset Spacing In Score and Parts January 6, 2025__Resets note spacing, resets space above and below staves, and (or) unlocks format for a full score, all of its dynamic parts, or both. __ It can process the current score, all open scores, or all scores in a folder of scores. __Updated 30 April 2014 to add Optimize Staff Spacing, Reset Position and Reset […]
- cmdutils January 5, 2025__Added 27 April 2021. Version 01.08.00 __This is a library of plugin routines designed to be called by other plugins. In particular, most of the routines can be executed directly from Execute Commands, or generated macros or generated plugins. __The routines are in the style of Commands - they act on the current selection in […]
- Evaluate Plugin Condition January 5, 2025Added 12 September 2024. Version 01.50.08. Provides conditions used in cmdutils IfCondition commands Will only be used when using the IfCondition commands in cmdutils Can be run directly by a human to see which conditions are available and test on various selections. Requires cmdutils to be installed. Updated 05 January 2025. Version 01.50.10. Some new […]
- Filter Other October 9, 2024__Adds filters for symbols, notehead styles, tied notes, time signatures, and grace notes, as well as a filter to text styles (defaulting to Technique). __Updated October 9, 2007. Now filters special barlines as well. __Updated March 19, 2008. Noteheads default to number rather than name. __Updated April 22, 2008. Minor notehead dialog change. __Note: This […]