On the Scoring Notes podcast, courtesy of our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz, we find out why the music industry became obsessed with loudness, and learn how the digital era transformed the way that music sounds.

2 plug-ins that will save you time on common tasks while working in Sibelius scores: Retract Line Ends and Replace Symbol

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.

New post! Need to make a clarinet part in a different transposition than the original part? Or a treble clef baritone part linked to the bass clef euphonium part? Here are the step-by-step instructions to set it all up in Finale Music Notation Software.

Learn more about how to improve the performance of some Sibelius plug-ins.

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

Use the Reference Guide and other help documents outside of Sibelius.

Dorico's various dialog boxes, known as editors, allow users to easily customize areas of notation for specific types of scores. We explore the notation of a Handel secular cantata and an “ars subtilior” virelai.

If you work with opera, music notation software will help manage the genre’s large forces, multiple sections, revisions, piano reductions, and more. Joshua Luty, librarian for the Houston Grand Opera and member of the MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians, talks about the mix of timeless traditions ...

New podcast episode! If you work with opera, music notation software will help manage the genre’s large forces, multiple sections, revisions, piano reductions, and more. Joshua Luty, librarian for the Houston Grand Opera and member of the MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians Technology Committee, t...