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.
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Using Sibelius Effectively: a guide to Sibelius Ultimate
Using Sibelius Effectively: A Guide to Sibelius Ultimate condenses years of experience and expertise using Sibelius into a thoughtful, practical 70-page ebook. Written in an easy-to-follow, engaging style, its focus is on helping you produce quality music notation.
Noteflight, education, innovation, and inspiration
Noteflight, the web-based music notation software that allows musicians to create, share, teach, sell, and purchase music, continues to innovate with updates and new product offerings, so that professionals and educators can take their inspirations and collaborate, no matter the circumstances.
Sam Solomon on writing for percussion
Samuel Z. Solomon’s book “How to Write for Percussion” is a wealth of information, guidance, opinions, and reference material on an important subject, accompanied by nine hours of quickly-paced companion videos.
Hollywood-style parts and blank staves in Dorico
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.
Better music experiences come to Zoom with high fidelity audio
A recent release of Zoom brings high fidelity audio to the popular videoconferencing platform. The new mode improves audio quality in ways that make the platform work much better for musicians by disabling Zoom’s aggressive dynamic compression.
Remembering Mary Elizabeth
An obituary of Mary Elizabeth by Bob Zawalich. Mary Elizabeth, known as “ME”, was a composer, author, teacher, and Sibelius beta tester, among many other things. She was someone that most Sibelius users likely never heard of, but she played important roles in making Sibelius what it became.
Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico training sessions from Notation Central
When it comes to learning how to use music notation software, there’s no substitute for customized, individual tutorial sessions. That’s why we’re excited to offer instructional training for Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico through Notation Central.
Baby Shark for orchestra
What do you get when you combine a catchy children’s tune with a young person’s guide to the orchestra and a lovable finned friend?
Share video and audio of music notation software via Zoom
If you’re one of the many using Zoom to share your creations with others or teach music remotely, here’s how to configure Sibelius, Finale, Dorico, and Musescore to allow your collaborators to not only view your score, but to hear it as well.