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Backup with Backblaze and get three free months

December 27, 2022January 5, 2023

Get three free months of Backblaze, the simple and affordable backup solution for Mac and PC. Check off that new year’s resolution early by getting serious about backing up all your hard work!

Opinion

A brief history of music notation on computers

December 28, 2021September 9, 2022

Music engraving dates back well before the computer age, but it’s easy to forget that the computer-aided portion of the history spans back a good long time. We summarize that history and explore a few key moments leading up to the present.

Reviews

Newzik Maestria review: The score reader that promises to read scores

November 13, 2021November 16, 2021

Maestria is a technology that allows Newzik to not just display a score, but also to understand it musically. The resulting score is a LiveScore, which includes the ability to view the score as with any other, and also the ability to play it back and export it.

Tutorials

Super-powered keyboard shortcuts with BetterTouchTool

June 3, 2021June 5, 2021

Extend your keyboard shortcuts on a Mac by using BetterTouchTool, an app which allows the user to define a trigger, and then associate one or more actions that will be launched when that trigger is detected.

News

Newzik introduces interactive LiveScores with Maestria, AI-based optical music recognition

May 26, 2021May 29, 2021

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.

Tutorials

Paperless composition lessons with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

January 30, 2021February 2, 2021

Composer and educator David MacDonald describes in detail how he teaches composition using the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and a suite of apps, and why he can’t imaging returning to the dead-tree way of doing things.

Opinion

Preparing music scores for screens — the challenges and opportunities

September 30, 2020October 7, 2020

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.

News

Videos available from Mozarteum music engraving conference

July 27, 2020July 29, 2020

The Mozarteum University has provided videos from everything filmed from their music engraving conference. The playlist is available on YouTube and contains 26 videos totaling approximately 17 hours of material.

News

Highlights from the Mozarteum music engraving conference

February 27, 2020March 2, 2020

Some highlights from the “Music Engraving in the 21st Century: Developments and Perspectives” conference at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, including a keynote by Elaine Gould and other presentations.

News

21st century music engraving conference at the Mozarteum

January 12, 2020January 13, 2020

The Mozarteum University in Salzburg will be hosting a new conference entitled “Music Engraving in the 21st Century: Developments and Perspectives” with an active a three-day agenda beginning January 17, 2020.

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