Essential to any good printed part layout is the page turn. The easiest way to check for good page turns on-screen is to view the music as a two-page spread. We'll quickly run through how to view music this way in all the major desktop music notation applications as well as in Adobe Acrobat and Mac Preview.

Two plug-ins for Sibelius that could help you speed up some tedious text entry tasks: Add Fingering To Notes for Sibelius 7+ and ReInput Text.

Placing notes in parentheses in Sibelius is easy (and downright fun, too).

New post! Dorico 3.0.10 is out with nearly 100 bug fixes and support for macOS 10.15 Catalina. In addition, a free 30-day trial of Dorico 3 is now available.

macOS Catalina is out today! If you use music notation software such as Finale Music Notation Software, Avid Sibelius, Dorico, Musescore or Notion by PreSonus, keep this page on Scoring Notes bookmarked for the latest compatibility info.

An overview of working with the text style and typography features in SIbelius, such as using the Ribbon, text frames, angled and vertical text, and hierarchical text styles

It's not entirely obvious at first glance, but Sibelius offers an easy way to powerfully customize shortcuts in word menus to quickly apply common text expressions in your score.

Check out the official Aaron Copland web site, just launched! An incredible resource for his music.

Learn how to use text wildcards in Sibelius for text that will automatically update in all instances where the wildcard appears.