Performance—putting a notation program’s scores and parts to use on stage.
At the 2026 NAMM Show, Piascore founder Hiroyuki Koike shows how his company is transforming digital sheet music through MusicXML-based interactivity and AI-driven tools that respond to musicians in real time, pointing toward a more practical and musical future for notation.
Hal Leonard and Muse Group have officially launched MuseClass, a music education-focused product featuring an automated assessment tool called AutoGrade. MuseClass is designed for use with grades 6-12 in a US music education environment.
MuseScore 4.2 sports many new guitar notation and playback features like bends and alternate string tunings, and a new sample library. Improvements in score/part synchronization, harp pedal diagrams, arpeggios, ties, Braille, MusicXML import, sharing, and more round out this update.
A review of the leading iPad score reader apps — forScore, Newzik, and nkoda — to assess the current state of the category, and to help musicians decide which of the excellent options best suits their needs.
Newzik has announced Maestria, a new optical music recognition technology that uses artificial intelligence to become more accurate over time, as well as a new product called LiveScores, which use Maestria to create interactive scores.
Using an iPad as a score reader in performance is great, but its backlight looks weird from the audience. Fortunately, there are tools and settings on your iPad that can help, in apps like forScore and Newzik.
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.
What are the best practices when preparing a score with the expectation that it will be read from a screen, not paper? This is an excellent question — one whose answer today may likely change in the coming years.
MuseScore 3.2 has been released. Single note dynamics, more flexible automatic placement, percussion sticking, changing durations, and more improvements are featured in this latest update, along with design refinements and better performance.
forScore has released forScore 11, the first major update to the iOS score reader since 2016. It's largely an evolutionary update, but the improvements are thoughtful, practical, and welcome.
