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April 2021

News

Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity

April 30, 2021May 15, 2021

The company that owns MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar has announced its acquisition of Audacity, the popular free audio editing software. The company is now called Muse Group, and its portfolio also encompasses MuseClass and Tonebridge.

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“Scoring Notes Live” on the schedule at the 2021 MOLA Conference [updated]

April 29, 2021May 22, 2021

A live video presentation of the Scoring Notes podcast on the topic of music notation software is just one of many sessions planned for the MOLA 2021 Annual Conference.

Tutorials

Simplifying Simple Entry in Finale

April 27, 2021June 1, 2021

Finale’s Simple Entry tool is actually very powerful. Learn how to enter notes, rests, dots, ties, accidentals, grace notes, tuplets, and much more — even articulations, expressions, clefs, time signatures and key signatures, all right from this tool.

People

Jessie Montgomery’s music notation tips

April 20, 2021April 21, 2021

Composer Jessie Montgomery interweaves classical music with vernacular songs, improvisation, and language, presenting exciting challenges for a music copyist or engraver. Here are some of those challenges and how the results were achieved.

Tutorials

How to keep your iPad from lighting up your face while performing

April 20, 2021May 5, 2021

Using an iPad as a score reader in performance is great, but its backlight looks weird from the audience. Fortunately, there are tools and settings on your iPad that can help, in apps like forScore and Newzik.

News

MusGlyphs, an advanced music text font

April 14, 2021May 5, 2021

MusGlyphs is a font that makes it easier to type a wide variety of musical symbols directly into a word processor, combined with text fonts, without needing to adjust baselines or point sizes.

Opinion

How to charge for music preparation [podcast transcript]

April 6, 2021July 3, 2021

When preparing music, you always make sure what goes on the page is pitch-perfect. How about what goes on the bill? A transcript from our popular podcast episode on the topic of how to charge for your time and skill.

Tips

Remove a certain articulation from a passage in Sibelius

April 1, 2021April 3, 2021

Articulations in Sibelius are toggles — like on/off switches on a lighting panel. Once you know that, you can add and remove them more easily than you may have thought.

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