Ho ho ho, the 2015 holiday shopping guide is out for music nerds and those who love them, with some new goodies and some old favorites to stuff your stocking and lighten your wallet.
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Mastering MuseScore, the user-friendly guide to MuseScore
A new guidebook for MuseScore is a thorough and logically written reference for those using the notation software for the first time or for those seeking to expand their knowledge.

Sibelius 7.5.1 update released with many improvements
The 7.5.1 update to Sibelius addresses numerous issues relating to audio and video export, the Timeline, localization, and playback, improves the user interface, and belatedly introduces the official 7.5 Sibelius Reference.

Read the friendly manual
Often I receive questions from friends, colleagues and strangers alike, asking for help with one Sibelius question or another. While I’m not an official source of information, I try to help when I can, although it’s not always possible for me to reply to every question. Sometimes the question is along the lines of “Sibelius […]

Use the Reference Guide and other help documents outside of Sibelius
If you know how to access Sibelius’s Reference, you can take the manual with you, or have it beside you while you work in the program, saving space on your monitor.
How many words are there in the Sibelius 6 Reference book?
Continuing a (very) irregular series of bits of Sibelius-related trivia… There are 369,522 words in the Sibelius 6 Reference book, an increase of 8.6% over the Sibelius 5 Reference book. That’s quite a lot of words.
How many words are there in the Sibelius 5 Reference book?
Quite a few: 340,237, in fact. (And there are 63,157 words in the Sibelius 5 Handbook.) Now you know!
