Scoring Express for Sibelius – Jazz
$69.99
Scoring Express is a collection of professional templates, libraries, fonts, manuscript papers, and plug-ins for Sibelius Ultimate — based on the same templates used every day at NYC Music Services.
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Scoring Express is a collection of high-quality, professional templates for Sibelius Ultimate — based on the same templates used at NYC Music Services, an industry-leading music preparer.
Each Scoring Express package is much more than just the templates. It contains manuscript papers, house styles, high-quality music and text fonts, and plug-ins — all installed in one go, so you can get started right away.
The settings in Scoring Express files are the result of decades of experience preparing music notation at the highest level. Embedded throughout each file are carefully considered parameters that refine positioning, placement, and design. They reflect the expert advice and tips you’ll find on the Scoring Notes blog.
Drawing on our knowledge of the ins and outs of Sibelius, we have made use of some of the more obscure features and settings and baked them right into the Scoring Express defaults so that you don’t have to spend time fiddling with them. Each file also includes loads of additional symbols, lines, and text styles that extend Sibelius’s default capabilities in many ways.
Plus, Scoring Express takes full advantage of the Norfolk and Pori fonts that not only bring a unique beauty to your music, but deliver unique features as well, like the angled slash chord (ASC) symbols.
What’s the difference between downloading the Norfolk or Pori fonts and purchasing Scoring Express?
| Feature | Norfolk / Pori fonts only | Scoring Express |
|---|---|---|
| Fonts | Norfolk and Pori are separate items | All Norfolk, Pori, and other high quality music and text fonts included with every purchase; more than 40 in all |
| Installation | Manual | Automatic installer. No separate font download or installation necessary |
| Templates | No | At least 9 different templates included |
| House Styles | 1 basic per font | Yes: One per template, plus a parts house style |
| Manuscript Papers | No | Yes: One per template |
| Plug-ins | No | Yes |
| Custom features | Limited | Many extra symbols, lines, hierarchical text styles, engraving rules, positioning settings and note spacing rule |
| Example files | No | Yes |
| Support | No | Yes |
| Price | $20.00 (suggested contribution) | $69.99 - $79.99 |
All Scoring Express for Sibelius installations come with these fonts: the Norfolk and Pori fonts, plus the Figurato figured bass font, and the Academico, Archivo & Archivo Narrow, Arimo, Gothic A1, P052, Petaluma Script, and Tinos text fonts. Several useful plug-ins are also included to help you quickly get results.
Scoring Express for Sibelius — Jazz includes 11 professional Sibelius templates for stand-alone use, plus corresponding Manuscript Papers and House Styles for each, in addition to two Parts House Styles that can be easily imported into any part.
Documentation
Scoring Express for Sibelius – Usage, features, and tips
Scoring Express for Sibelius User Guide
Angled slash chord (ASC) fonts
Theatre & Studio — Additional documentation
Position Rehearsal Marks plug-in
Compatibility
Scoring Express is built for the latest versions of Sibelius Ultimate, Dorico Pro, and Finale.
Minimum supported versions:
- Sibelius Ultimate 2023.11 (Scoring Express v. 1.7)
- Dorico Pro 6.0 (Scoring Express v. 1.8)
- Finale 27.3Â (Scoring Express v. 1.6)
Use with earlier versions or, with the mid-tier products like Sibelius Artist or Dorico Elements, is not recommended nor supported.
Version 1.6 for Sibelius is also included for legacy purposes, but will no longer be updated. For best results with Scoring Express version 1.6, use Sibelius Ultimate 2022.5 through 2023.8; however, it should work with all Sibelius Ultimate versions dating back to 2020.3.
Version 1.8 for Dorico will open on earlier versions of Dorico, and is supported on Dorico Pro 5.x, but some features may not work as intended.
Scoring Express templates and manuscript papers are designed for North American page sizes, but they will look just fine switching to the nearest ISO equivalent (i.e., A4) with a quick toggle in:
Sibelius – Layout > Document Setup > Size;
Dorico – Library > Layout Options… > Page Setup
Finale – Document > Page Format > Score… and Document > Page Format > Parts…
In Finale, be sure to go to the Page Layout Tool and Redefine Pages for the score and/or parts you wish to reformat to your new page size.
Depending on your tastes, in certain circumstances you may prefer adjusting the staff size by a fraction of a millimeter or two in either direction as well.
Version History
May 22, 2025: Version 1.8 for Dorico.
October 31, 2024: Version 1.7 for Dorico and Sibelius.
June 17, 2023: Version 1.6 — no version change or change to the template files, but all installers updated to install Project Templates directly for Dorico 5 in addition to Dorico 4
May 17, 2023: Version 1.6
June 13, 2022: Version 1.5
February 15, 2021: Version 1.2
December 26, 2020: Version 1.1
December 12, 2020: Version 1.0
Scoring Express for Sibelius detailed version history
Scoring Express for Dorico detailed version history
Scoring Express for Finale detailed version history
License
Can I use Scoring Express on more than one computer?
Yes! A purchase entitles one person (you) to use it on one computer at a time, on as many computers that you personally use. Unless you have extra limbs, that should suffice nicely.
Can my buddy who shares my computer use Scoring Express?
No! Well, there’s no way to technically prevent it. But please ask your buddy to purchase his own copy.
My buddy wants to use my copy of Scoring Express. Can I send it to him?
No! He should purchase his own copy. Let’s all be buddies!
Can I change the default Scoring Express files — customize, modify styles, add instruments, etc.?
Yes! That’s the beauty of it — it’s totally customizable for your own use. You can change it straight away or keep the original handy and duplicate it for your own use. If you need to, you can always re-install the default Scoring Express files again.
So, once I do that, can I send those files to my buddy?
You can share score files with anyone you like, and these files may inherently contain many settings derived from Scoring Express. But please encourage your buddies to purchase their own copies of Scoring Express so that they get the full benefit of the package and easy compatibility with your files — including all the fonts, house styles, and manuscript papers that come with Scoring Express.
Specs
| Operating System | Mac, Windows |
|---|---|
| Platform | Sibelius |
Cam Millar (verified owner) –
I’ve been a longtime Sibelius user (since ver. 2) but I’ve also gained working knowledge of every other notation program over the years, including the most recent offerings, all in the search of finding the most painless, easy method of creating scores and parts for my projects. As a professional musician/instrumentalist myself, I have certain standards of what I want to see when music is put on my stand, and I sure don’t want to have poor notation and poor parts copying for any of my own composing/arranging projects. So, as many others, I’ve gone down many ‘roads to Rome’ playing the notation software game in the quest for musical satisfaction.
So, along with all the other fantastic recent upgrades that have been made to Sibelius Ultimate over the last few years, it’s really amazing that now we can all utilize and benefit from all the painstaking hard work and shared knowledge gained from so many years of Sibelius music engraving at the highest professional levels from Philip Rothman and his team.
They’re sharing the ‘keys to the castle’! These templates (not only for Jazz) must be one of the deals of the century.
How many hours, days, weeks, have the rest of us spent trying to figure out how to input some notational needs instead of spending all that time actually creating music? I’m sure I speak for many musicians/composers!
Well, I can only rave over the layouts, text and music font decisions, and ease of Parts creation that come as part of the Jazz templates. I just finished a project where I was composing original music for a series of concerts coming up this summer, and rehearsals have come up very fast (as in tonight!)
Normally I would have been so frustrated with the formatting or parts creation somewhere in the process that I would evevitably get into my ‘there must be better software for this’ mode of thinking.
Instead, I had the greatest stress-free experience ever. Sibelius is usually pretty stress-free, but these templates put the ‘icing on the cake’ for me. Easy to use with beautiful results! I couldn’t ask for more.
The only change I made myself was to use the Pori fonts for my Chord Styles, as I like their appearance. Other than that, everything was just ‘go ahead and use the new styles’.
Many thanks to NYC Music Services for their amazing offering to the music community at large. I still find it mind-boggling that the ‘rest of us’ are able to have access to these templates!
OK… I have to get back at some work with Sibelius and my Jazz templates on this project….. I hope other people are able to gain as much satisfaction and peace-of-mind from these products as I have been able to!
BJC3991 (verified owner) –
These templates are absolutely phenomenal.
The installer makes getting them up and running a breeze, and they are very easy to learn how to use.
I am a new user of Sibelius and am currently in the process of transferring my big band arrangements from Finale into Sibelius via XML files.
These Scoring Express templates have taken what I thought would be an arduous and time consuming process and turned it into an astoundingly efficient and tremendously enjoyable endeavor.
The angled slash chord functionality alone makes it worth the purchase price, but these templates do so much more than just change the appearance of chord symbols.
It is endlessly delightful to import an XML file into these templates and, with a few clicks, watch them transform from poorly formatted charts with numerous clashes and note spacing issues into beautifully engraved files which would pass the eye test of even the most discerning musicians, conductors, and librarians.
The best part of this package, however, may very well be the ability to use these templates to format not only a score, but individual instrument parts as well (which, as anybody who has ever had to produce parts for a large ensemble work on a tight deadline can tell you, is an extremely stressful undertaking using the default templates provided by Sibelius or Finale).
This product will undoubtedly save you many, many hours of laborious work, all the while ensuring when you pass out your charts to a big band that you can be confident your music will look as pleasing to the eye as possible.
I had no idea that my scores and parts could look this fantastic, but now that I do, I can’t imagine ever using anything other than these templates for any of my arrangements or compositions.
Further, the companion set of templates for chamber music are equally fantastic, and I will soon be using them to edit my compositions for orchestra and pierrot ensemble.
I cannot recommend the Scoring Express templates highly enough.