As we close the book on 2025, it’s time to look back at another year of music notation news, updates, creativity, and conversation.
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Road report: MOLA 2025 Conference
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.
MOLA 2024: Cleveland rocked
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.
MOLA morsels: Conversations from the 2024 conference
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 tech trek to the 2023 MOLA conference
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.
Pedals, Pitches, and Pixels: MOLA harp notation webinar
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.
First-ever tech fair to debut at 2023 MOLA conference on June 2
The MOLA 2023 conference will see the debut of the Tech Fair, on Friday, June 2, 2023. The fair will be an opportunity for technology-focused presentations and exhibits, especially those relevant to performance librarians, publishers and musicians.
Orchestra librarians want you to know about instrument names
Here’s a video tutorial, with a complete transcript, from Thomas Goss of Orchestration Online on the subject of correctly labeling instrument names and numbers in your score, and its importance to the orchestra staff and librarian.
MOLA 2022 conference wrap-up
From June 3-6, 2022 in Philadelphia, MOLA: An Association of Performance Librarians held their 40th annual conference, and by all accounts it was a huge success.
Conferences call
Three music conferences, one weekend, all in the Scoring Notes universe: MOLA, NAMM, and League of American Orchestras. We’ll be at MOLA presenting sessions and talking to the best orchestra librarians in the business.