Jessie Montgomery's music presents exciting challenges for a music copyist or engraver. Here are some of those challenges and how the results were achieved.

Tone clusters are a shorthand notation for several adjacent notes played at once. In this comprehensive post, we'll discuss many different ways to represent tone clusters in a notated score, and how to achieve those results in Sibelius.

New post! The Conquering Finale series by Jason Loffredo continues on Scoring Notes. Learn the key to key signatures in Finale Music Notation Software — actually, several of them. Start with the basics and document options, then move on to keyless signatures, independent and mid-measure key signatures, and programmi...

See you today at 2 pm with our excellent colleague Joseph Trefler helping out again!

Come join us today at 2 pm Eastern time (New York/US) as we demonstrate the Scoring Express templates, talk abut the new features, and do some Q & A. Registration required. We'll be using the very latest Avid Sibelius 2021.2 update so you'll see that in action, too.

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Podcast aficionados! We've picked up a lot of new listeners over the past week. Welcome all! If you listen through a podcast app like Apple Podcasts that allows you to rate and/or review shows, would you help us out by leaving one for Scoring Notes? Believe it or not, this simple act helps us immensely, and it will ...

New podcast episode! We nerd out about the latest updates to Dorico and Avid Sibelius and have some fun along the way, with Dorico's support for M1 Apple Silicon Macs, and Sibelius's refreshed Command Search bar and new scripting features.

Register now for the next free Scoring Express for Avid Sibelius webinar: Monday, March 1 at 2 pm EST.

Reminder: Next Scoring Express for Avid Sibelius webinar on Monday, March 1 at 2 pm EST. Register now!