Empty”placeholder” pages are sometimes useful to define the start of a new event, scene or movement in a score, or to facilitate good page turns.
To insert one or more blank pages, select the barline which precedes where you would like one or more blank pages to be inserted.
Now, choose the “Special Page Break” option from the Breaks group on the Layout tab:
(Prior to Sibelius 7 use Layout > Break > Special Page Breaks…)
Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut CMND-SHIFT-RETURN (Mac) or CNTRL-SHIFT-RETURN (Windows).
This opens up to the Special Page Break dialog, where you can specify how many pages you wish to insert.
Special Page Breaks apply specifically to the current part (or score) view. If you have blank pages that you would like to appear globally in the score and parts, create the break in the score, and check “Keep Other Special Page Breaks” in Multi Part Appearance.
Note: Special Page Breaks are only available in the Full version of Sibelius (now called Sibelius Ultimate).
A German version of this post („Leere Seiten einfügen in Sibelius”) is available here.
Karin Vadon is a classically trained musician, singer-songwriter and music copyist from Vienna, Austria who authors a german-language music notation blog for Sibelius and Dorico users.
Categories Contributing Author, Page Layout, SibeliusHello, Is it possible to have a blank page, that isn’t a title page, at the beginning of a part? Many thanks, James
Karin Vadon says:Hi James,
yes, you can do it exactly the way it is described here.
Just select the very first barline, the one at the very beginning, before the first clef. If the instrument consists of only one staff, that barline will be hidden, but you can still select it.
If the part starts with a multirest, this will not work. In this case, toggle off the display of multirests on the Layout tab, execute the special page break (the inserting of the blank page) and then reactivate “show multirests”.
Best regards,
Karin
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