| Instruction manual - Pizzicato 2.0 | EN003 - Revision of November 15, 2001 |
Table of Contents - Pizzicato Light
Computer help - Music course - Pizzicato user manual - Progressive study program
Glossary of musical and computer terms
What is the mouse? - Buttons of the mouse - Pointing - Clicking - Double-clicking - Clicking/dragging
The computer and its interface (1)
What is a computer? - Communicating with a computer - The screen and windows - Menus - Dialog boxes
The computer and its interface (2)
Buttons - Check boxes - Radio buttons - Popup menus - Scroll bars - Sliders - Lists
The computer and its interface (3)
What is help? - The help menu - How to use help? - Reaching contextual help
Introduction to the music course
The purpose of this course - Material needed - How to use this course?
What is music? - Characteristics of a sound - Music notation - The staff - The measure - Summary
Note pitch - example - What is a clef? - Note duration - example - Instrument timbre - example - Note amplitude - example
The name and position of notes - Rhythmic values of notes - Rests - Summary
Characteristics of music notation (1)
Characteristics of music notation (2)
The scale and the musical keyboard - Tones and half tones - The sharp and the flat - The natural - The double sharp and the double flat
Octaves numbering - Using the bass clef - The instrument range - Other clefs - Writing conventions
Characteristics of music notation (3)
Braces and groups of staves - Measure numbering and rehearsal marks - Special staves
Using time signature - Composite time signature - Conventions and examples
The major scale of C - Tonality - The major scales - The minor scales - Arbitrary key signatures
Transposition - Intervals - Diatonic and chromatic transposition
Why add symbols? - Nuances - Tempo markings - Ornament - Other various symbols
How to learn the keyboard with Pizzicato? - Organizing the screen - Progressive exercises generator - Listening to the exercise and learning how to play it - Fingering - Sounds - Learning progression - Learning to play with an accompaniment
Versions of Pizzicato - The instruction manual of Pizzicato - Goals of Pizzicato
Installing Pizzicato - Starting Pizzicato - License registration - Exit Pizzicato
What is MIDI? - MIDI setup (Beginner, Light and Shareware versions) - MIDI configuration (Professional version) - Select your synthesizer (Professional version)
What is a document? - Opening a document - Creation of a new document
The sequencer view - The piano roll view - The instruments view - Association of a comment
Creating and saving a document - Modification of a document - The scrolling score view
Introduction of notes and rests (1)
How to introduce notes and rests? - How to delete a note or a rest? - How to move a note or a rest? - How to select tools with the keyboard? - Automatic justification
Introduction of notes and rests (2)
How to modify the stems orientation? - How to modify the beams?
Introduction of notes and rests (3)
Introducing chords - Dotted notes and rests - Changing the note head - Reducing notes
Introduction of notes and rests (4)
Placement of accidentals - Position of an accidental - Ties - Adjustment of the stem length - Rhythmic voices
Entering notes with the keyboard
The keyboard window - How you can introduce notes with the keyboard?
Introduction of the notes and rests (5)
Using the arrow tool - Deleting with the arrow tool - Optimal use of tools
Changing the clef - Clef characteristics
What is a template? - Pizzicato Light -Pizzicato Beginner - Pizzicato Professional - Variety styles (Pizzicato Professional) - Easy creation of an orchestral score (Pizzicato Professional)
Selecting a key signature - Changing the key signature during a music work - Arbitrary key signatures
What is a selection? - Copy and paste - Selecting several measures
Working in the sequencer and main views
Selecting measures - Adding/deleting measures and staves - Creating and handling scores
The instruments view - Elements of the instruments view - Modifying the staves order
General options and graphic copy
Global options - Pizzicato Beginner and Light - Global options - Pizzicato Professional - Graphic copy
Real time recording - The recorder and its options - Start recording from the musical keyboard - The Midi filter
Tracks and staves - Transcription - Quantization - Recording multiple voices - Correcting the notes
Transposing and justifying measures
Palettes, tools and symbols - Adding a symbol in the score - Erasing a symbol - Moving or resizing a symbol
Creation of a text block - Moving, modifying and erasing a text block - Adding a title / Page numbers
Introduction of lyrics in the score - Connecting or extending syllables - Adjusting the position of lyrics lines - The lyrics fast encoding window
Adding, moving and erasing chords on the score - Adjusting chords globally - Converting chords into notes
Rhythmic voices - Using rhythmic voices - Making a note or a rest invisible
Graphic options and automatisms
Reading and writing MIDI files
The Midi file - Exporting a Midi file - Importing a Midi file
Contextual menus and MIDI data modification
Contextual menu of a note - Contextual menu of a measures selection - Modification of MIDI data
The following list groups all computer, music and user manual lessons of Pizzicato, so as to have a progressive study program where computer and music concepts are introduced before being applied to Pizzicato.
Versions of Pizzicato - the instruction manual of Pizzicato - Goals of Pizzicato
What is the mouse? - Buttons of the mouse - Pointing - Clicking - Double-clicking - Clicking/dragging
Installing Pizzicato - Starting Pizzicato - License registration - Exit Pizzicato
The computer and its interface (1)
What is a computer? - Communicating with a computer - The screen and windows - Menus - Dialog boxes
The computer and its interface (2)
Buttons - Check boxes - Radio buttons - Popup menus - Scroll bars - Sliders - Lists
The computer and its interface (3)
What is help? - The help menu - How to use help? - Reaching contextual help
What is MIDI? - MIDI setup (Beginner, Light and Shareware versions) - MIDI configuration (Professional version) - Select your synthesizer (Professional version)
Introduction to the music course
The purpose of this course - Material needed - How to use this course?
What is music? - Characteristics of a sound - Music notation - The staff - The measure - Summary
What is a document? - Opening a document - Creation of a new document
Note pitch - example - What is a clef? - Note duration - example - Instrument timbre - example - Note amplitude - example
The sequencer view - The piano roll view - The instruments view - Association of a comment
Creating and saving a document - Modification of a document - The scrolling score view
The name and position of notes - Rhythmic values of notes - Rests - Summary
Introduction of notes and rests (1)
How to introduce notes and rests? - How to delete a note or a rest? - How to move a note or a rest? - How to select tools with the keyboard? - Automatic justification
Characteristics of music notation (1)
Introduction of notes and rests (2)
How to modify the stems orientation? - How to modify the beams?
Characteristics of music notation (2)
Introduction of notes and rests (3)
Introducing chords - Dotted notes and rests - Changing the note head - Reducing notes
The scale and the musical keyboard - Tones and half tones - The sharp and the flat - The natural - The double sharp and the double flat
Introduction of notes and rests (4)
Placement of accidentals - Position of an accidental - Ties - Adjustment of the stem length - Rhythmic voices
Entering notes with the keyboard
The keyboard window - How you can introduce notes with the keyboard?
Introduction of the notes and rests (5)
Using the arrow tool - Deleting with the arrow tool - Optimal use of tools
Octaves numbering - Using the bass clef - The instrument range - Other clefs - Writing conventions
Changing the clef - Clef characteristics
Characteristics of music notation (3)
Braces and groups of staves - Measure numbering and rehearsal marks - Special staves
What is a template? - Pizzicato Light -Pizzicato Beginner - Pizzicato Professional - Variety styles (Pizzicato Professional) - Easy creation of an orchestral score (Pizzicato Professional)
Using time signature - Composite time signature - Conventions and examples
The major scale of C - Tonality - The major scales - The minor scales - Arbitrary key signatures
Selecting a key signature - Changing the key signature during a music work - Arbitrary key signatures
What is a selection? - Copy and paste - Selecting several measures
Working in the sequencer and main views
Selecting measures - Adding/deleting measures and staves - Creating and handling scores
The instruments view - Elements of the instruments view - Modifying the staves order
General options and graphic copy
Global options - Pizzicato Beginner and Light - Global options - Pizzicato Professional - Graphic copy
Real time recording - The recorder and its options - Start recording from the musical keyboard - The Midi filter
Tracks and staves - Transcription - Quantization - Recording multiple voices - Correcting the notes
Transposition - Intervals - Diatonic and chromatic transposition
Transposing and justifying measures
Why add symbols? - Nuances - Tempo markings - Ornament - Other various symbols
Palettes, tools and symbols - Adding a symbol in the score - Erasing a symbol - Moving or resizing a symbol
Creation of a text block - Moving, modifying and erasing a text block - Adding a title / Page numbers
Introduction of lyrics in the score - Connecting or extending syllables - Adjusting the position of lyrics lines - The lyrics fast encoding window
Adding, moving and erasing chords on the score - Adjusting chords globally - Converting chords into notes
Rhythmic voices - Using rhythmic voices - Making a note or a rest invisible
Graphic options and automatisms
Reading and writing MIDI files
The Midi file - Exporting a Midi file - Importing a Midi file
Contextual menus and MIDI data modification
Contextual menu of a note - Contextual menu of a measures selection - Modification of MIDI data
How to learn the keyboard with Pizzicato? - Organizing the screen - Progressive exercises generator - Listening to the exercise and learning how to play it - Fingering - Sounds - Learning progression - Learning to play with an accompaniment