Start the week off right by hearing about the life and wisdom of our podcast guest Darcy James Argue. Part 1 of our interview is out now; part 2 to come next weekend. https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/darcy-james-argue-part-1/

New podcast episode! The first of a two-part interview with Darcy James Argue, the acclaimed jazz composer, bandleader, and educator. In this part: His early years on through to creating original masterpieces — and how good music preparation, notation software, and getting a foothold in the New York scene were all i...

Dorico offers a wide selection of horizontal and vertical lines, and the line style editor allows you to design your own custom line.

In the Sequence Editor of JW Change, you can build a custom sequence that changes existing elements in Finale through a general user interface, greatly speeding up workflow.

Why should you care if your Sibelius preference file was deleted? What are the Preferences and what do they do? Here are some tips about preference settings that may shed a little light on, if not improve upon, the way you use Sibelius.

You can move notes and rests horizontally in Sibelius, which we call “sliding” notes. This first appeared in Sibelius 8.2 and was refined in 8.3. If you don't know about this feature, you'll want to see this 90-second video.

New post! From Dan Kreider, the creator of MusGlyphs and MusAnalysis, comes MusFrets — a text font that allows the user to type guitar chord diagrams into a word processor or other software.

Two Sibelius plug-ins to make your life easier: Merge To Voice 1 to convert notes in all voices in a selection into voice 1, and Simplify Part Names, removing all but the first instrument name in the Part Name field in Score Info for each dynamic part.

In this installment of DJA's Notes by Darcy James Argue, we learn the dos and donts of one- and two-bar repeats, numbering repeated bars, and how to lay out the music correctly so that the intent is clearly conveyed.

We interview composer Christopher Willis about his score to "The Personal History of David Copperfield" and explore his music prep process.