An in-depth review of Symphony Pro 5 with handwriting recognition. See how Symphony Pro stacks up in a burgeoning marketplace of tablet-based scoring apps.

In this post, conductor and composer Claude Lapalme shows you how he composed a meter-less segment of a movement of a chamber orchestra work in Dorico, using its sophisticated note entry and engraving tools.

It is not unusual to encounter grace notes at the end of a bar — that is, before the barline. Entering this variety of grace note in Sibelius can be a chore, but there is an approach which involves using tuplets to achieve good results.

It is not unusual to encounter grace notes at the end of a bar — that is, before the barline. Entering this variety of grace note in Sibelius can be a chore, but there is an approach which involves using tuplets to achieve good results.

Here's a clever and useful way in Sibelius to have the part name, title, and composer consistently appear the same — and in the same place — on your title page and the first page of your part.

Hot fix for Finale Music Notation Software 26.2.1 released today to fix new issues relating to ties and grace note spacing. If you downloaded and installed 26.2 you should get this update. wp.me/p1OLc1-576

With yesterday's release of Finale Music Notation Software 26.2, all the major desktop music notation applications are now supported under macOS 10.15 Catalina.

New post! MakeMusic has released Finale Music Notation Software version 26.2. This maintenance release is squarely focused on bug fixes and other improvements rather than new features. The most significant item in 26.2 for Mac users is full support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Before accepting her special Tony award in 1976, Mathilde Pincus said, "People think of us as music copyists, but we're much more than that, and we're trying to change our image." She succeeded.

Here's how to place fermatas on bar rests in Finale, and why placing them as articulations yields more consistent results than using expressions.