Music copying—the copyist’s craft of preparing clean, accurate parts and scores.
Unperformed music, whether notated or existing only in the composer’s imagination, is just an idea. That's why Aaron Copland wanted his music to be heard. This is how today's generation of music editors keep true to that guiding principle.
A journey through engraving the entirety of The Rite of Spring from scratch into Dorico, to learn more about both Stravinsky's masterful composition and how to use the music notation software. Includes Dorico files.
Master the humble Selection Tool in Finale and you will save precious seconds every time. Multiplied by a few hundred or a few thousand times each time you use it, and it adds up.
Dorico supports creating empty staves either at the end of a part layout — sometimes referred to as "Hollywood-style" parts — or simply in order to create custom manuscript paper.
Before accepting her special Tony award in 1976, Mathilde Pincus said, "People think of us as music copyists, but we're much more than that, and we're trying to change our image." She succeeded.
Composer and orchestrator Jeremy Borum shares his tips and tricks about sheet music preparation that may help streamline your process to achieve the fastest and most accurate way to get from raw MIDI to a printed score, regardless of what DAW or notation software you use.
Just in time for the holidays, we've found a few presents under the tree! Three new Sibelius plug-ins from Kenneth Gaw will surely make the season bright: Intelligent Ties, Multiple Text Entry, and Complete Copy and Paste.
A new plug-in from Tom Curran automates the laborious task of transferring the structure of a sketch score, such as a piano-vocal or MIDI export, onto a full orchestral template. Tom describes how orchestrators and copyists can make use of this new time-saver.
The Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles is the home of Cirque du Soleil's latest spectacular show, a journey through cinema entitled Iris featuring music by one of the…
Bob James is a jazz pianist, composer and arranger whose career has spanned five decades. Having been discovered by Quincy Jones in 1963, he has recorded 37 solo albums to…
