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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.

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Making tuplet fragments in Sibelius and Dorico

March 25, 2021March 27, 2021

Have you listened to some contemporary music with irrational time signatures and now want to make use of split tuplets, like 2/3 of a triplet? Today we’re going to look at creating these in Sibelius and Dorico.

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An interview with new music specialist jef chippewa about his neueweise fonts and more

May 8, 2020May 11, 2020

An interview with composer, new music notation specialist and arts administrator jef chippewa about his neueweise fonts for Finale and Sibelius and his work, philosophy, and approach to music notation.

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Creating freely metered music in Dorico

October 24, 2017July 13, 2018

In this post, conductor and composer Claude Lapalme shows you how he composed a meter-less segment of a movement of a chamber orchestra work in Dorico, using its sophisticated note entry and engraving tools.

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Dennis Tobenski: Sibelius “makes me open to try different things”

March 25, 2011March 24, 2011

I happened upon a short interview with New York-based composer and vocalist Dennis Tobenski (pictured right) on the web site of fellow composer Thomas Deneuville. Tobenski is a young American composer who has written incidental music for a number of theatre productions, and several cycles of art songs. Deneuville asked Tobenski whether he used a […]

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