Scoring Notes merch! No, it's not a tote bag. It's the sheet music to the podcast theme, naturally. Now available at Notation Central so you can play along with the opening of every episode 😃

Plug-in guru Bob Zawalich's tour de force on using font sizes in wildcards in Sibelius, with detailed instructions on converting points to spaces.

Curly quotes, or smart quotes, aren't automatically generated in Sibelius, but knowing these tips will quickly boost your score's IQ.

Hey there! We got so excited about yesterday’s podcast episode with Dave Metzger that we forgot to celebrate four years as Scoring Notes. Birthday cake for breakfast!

New podcast episode! Dave Metzger is one of Hollywood and Broadway’s most accomplished orchestrators and arrangers. On this first of a two-part interview, we discuss his career philosophy and approach to orchestration, and its fundamental relationship to music notation.

Updated post! Avid Sibelius is officially supported on the latest Macs with the M1 processor under the Rosetta 2 translation environment.

New post! MusGlyphs is a font that makes it easier to type a wide variety of musical symbols directly into a word processor, combined with text fonts, without needing to adjust baselines or point sizes.

Learn about the differences between slurs and ties in Sibelius, and use a couple of convenient plug-ins to convert any ties incorrectly entered as slurs and to extend slurs through the end of tied notes.

Move notes up or down chromatically in Sibelius by using this one little trick. Really.

Learn how to get harp notation in Sibelius that is pleasant to both the eye and ear by using several convenient plug-ins.