New post! A full transcript of our popular podcast episode, "How to charge for music preparation". When preparing music, you always make sure what goes on the page is pitch-perfect. How about what goes on the bill?

Daniel Spreadbury discusses the common set of font specifications known as the Standard Music Font Layout, or SMuFL, and the history of music fonts that led to its creation.

Dorico makes it quite easy to preface a score with reference pitches, such as timpani tunings or handbells. In this post we'll walk through the process of creating reference pitches using flows and frame chains.

Wondering how The Well-Tempered Consort works behind the scenes? You might be surprised… https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/the-well-tempered-consort/

Wondering how The Well-Tempered Consort works behind the scenes? You might be surprised… https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/the-well-tempered-consort/

New podcast episode! Justin Tokke is back to talk with us about The Well-Tempered Consort from Carl Fischer Music, a fully flexible and customizable way of configuring Bach’s masterpiece. Listen now here or wherever you get your podcasts!

Tristan Noon's e-book Notes to Notes is a comprehensive and approachable guide to the music business, conveyed from the perspective of real-world experience.

Clipboards, a plug-in for Sibelius, lets you store the contents of selections into up to 30 numbered clipboards, and to paste from those clipboards into a score. The plug-in's creator, Bob Zawalich, walks us through how to use it.

New post! Articulations in Avid Sibelius are toggles — like on/off switches on a lighting panel. Once you know that, you can add and remove them more easily than you may have thought.

We look at scary things we see in the music notation software and score preparation process, and see if we can sweeten the experience with some tricks and treats.