New post! In the words of David MacDonald: "It's possible to make a really beautiful, usable application that produces terrible scores, and it's possible to create a terrible application that produces beautiful scores. The goal is to put those things together into a beautiful application that produces beautiful scor...

Music notation software design 101 in MuseScore with Tantacrul on Music: https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/daniel-ray-martin-keary-and-musescore/

Music notation software design 101 in @musescore with @tantacrul

This Scoring Notes podcast episode about MuseScore is chock-full of discussion and opinions about how music notation software is designed, the quality of its output, and the trends in the industry. Great fun hosting with David MacDonald and having Daniel Ray and Martin Keary (aka Tantacrul on Music) on the show.

New podcast episode! Daniel Ray and Martin Keary from MuseScore join us. Learn about the origins of Tantacrul, the way Musescore aligns with the goals of Ultimate-Guitar.com, and the plan for what’s to come in Musescore 4.

Nice to see Jessie Montgomery featured in this NY Times article! Explore her music: https://www.notationcentral.com/vendor/jessie-montgomery-music/

Here's how to change the default appearance of octave lines in Finale and Sibelius, if, for instance, you'd like the octave line to simply read "8" instead of "8va".

In the course of preparing a new edition of Copland's Three Latin American Sketches, here are three improvements that should not be overlooked when preparing a new edition. Also: Remembering Vivian Perlis, 1928-2019.

New post! You've downloaded dozens or hundreds of Avid Sibelius plug-ins — now how do you squeeze even more speed out of them and quickly access your favorites? One solution is Bob Zawalich's My Plug-ins plug-in — "the plug-in's plug-in".

Sibelius's magnetic glissandi automatically snap to notes. What's more, you can change the playback style of a glissando or disable its playback entirely without affecting its notation.