The Society of Composers and Lyricists in New York is presenting a seminar entitled “Music Notation Tools and Tactics” on Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 7 pm. We have a free discount code for Scoring Notes readers.
October 2018
Count bar repeats in Sibelius
Although it’s more common to number bars in a score as if they are all played once straight through without factoring in repeats, often the bars are numbered according to the actual order in which they are played. Sibelius makes this easy to do.
Customize keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius and Dorico
In addition to using the default keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius and Dorico, you can program your own, and even override the default settings if you so choose.
10 years for the blog
We celebrate the 10th birthday of the Scoring Notes blog by looking back to October 11, 2008 and ahead the the future.
Finale version 26 review
MakeMusic has released version 26 of Finale, bringing a number of improvements: new articulation options, better templates and libraries, Mac performance enhancements, and several other items and bug fixes.
Using Sibelius’s advanced scale settings to adjust text size
Here’s how to change the size of expressive text in Sibelius without affecting the size of music text used for dynamics.