Format

Sibelius Score

Summary

Name

Sibelius Score

Version

7

Identifiers

• MIME: application/x-sibelius-score
• Library of Congress Format Description Identifier: fdd000609
• PUID: fmt/1984

Format type

Dataset

Description

The Sibelius Score is a music notation format a digital representation of sheet music. Sibelius software is a WYSIWYG scorewriter program, it allows for the creation and editing of music scores and the .sib file is it's native format. Sibelius is the name of a series of applications for music typesetting, was originally developed for the Acorn system (RISC 0S) in 1986, then released on Windows and Macintosh in 1998-99. In 2006 it was purchased by AVID. The software is commonly used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly for writing classical, jazz, band, vocal, film and television music.

Note

https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2024/04/12/sibelius/ https://wiki.dpconline.org/images/d/d9/Sibelius_Assessment_v1.0.pdf http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Sibelius https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000609.shtml

File extensions

sib

Source

Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University

Developed by

Sibelius Music

Supported by

Avid

Relationships

Has priority over

• Sibelius

Is previous version of

• Sibelius Score 7.5-8.0

Is subsequent version of

• Sibelius Score 6

Is subtype of

• Sibelius

Internal signatures

Changelog

• Added in V118

  Release date

  30 April 2024

  Sibelius Score 7: Signature researched and samples provided by Brigham Young University and National Library of Australia.

  Sibelius Score 7: Full entry added. Submitted by Brigham Young University and National Library of Australia.