MOLA, the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association, and its score-and-parts guidelines.
SheetCue, a music reader app, has you draw the measures, define the repeats and cuts, and it drives a timed, measure-by-measure practice flow from your own PDFs or photos. The idea also opens a bigger question: the vendor lock-in that traps annotated score libraries inside a single app.
Bibliome is a new Mac app that files, OCRs, and answers plain-language questions about your whole PDF library — scores, method books, and IMSLP downloads — using AI that runs entirely on your machine, with no cloud in sight.
The 2027 annual MOLA Conference will take place April 30 – May 3 in San Francisco, and with it comes a new Tech Fair, geared not just towards performance librarians, but to the wider community of music notation and technology.
Originally appearing as a document that composer David MacDonald created for his weekly master class, this bullet-list of score preparation and production notes will improve the quality of your performance materials in no time. To it we have added relevant links from Scoring Notes and other sources.
As we close the book on 2025, it’s time to look back at another year of music notation news, updates, creativity, and conversation.
Hosted by The University of Michigan, the 2025 MOLA conference brought together music librarians, publishers, vendors, composers, performers, and technology enthusiasts to share knowledge and connect with each other.
The 2024 MOLA Conference in Cleveland was a rocking success. The second annual tech fair began a four-day convergence of performance librarians, publishers, technology vendors, industry experts, and more, in this important area of music preparation and production.
Discussions from the 2024 MOLA Conference, along with an excerpt from the opening tech fair session, "Putting Technology into Practice in the Music Library".
The 2023 MOLA conference in Berlin began with the first-ever Tech Fair on June 2, 2023: a full day of panel discussions, vendor exhibits, demonstrations, and spontaneous cross-currents.
MOLA presented a webinar called Pedals, Pitches, and Pixels: An Introduction to Harp Notation. This session was jam-packed with resources about writing for the harp and how to get results in the software, with information from top players, librarians, and music preparers.
