Music notation programs, getting your music down on paper, and self-publishing blog.

Having an organized file system is crucial. If you’re like me, your file system always needs work. Think of the score and all the parts required. It’s important to know where each score’s elements are. I have a long list of files I continually move between when working on any orchestration. I have so many […]

Unlike conductor scores, orchestral parts do not require title pages; however, they can have them if the publisher decides. Why don’t orchestral parts need title pages? It probably comes down to necessity and cost. If you consider a forty-piece orchestra, that’s a lot of extra printing, paper and shipping weight. You may also ask yourself […]

I wanted to create title pages for the conductor score and orchestral parts in Sibelius and other music notation programs. No matter what notation program I used, none could make a decent title page. While the conductor’s score requires a title page, it’s optional for the instrument parts.  Sibelius and the other music notation programs […]

I use Sibelius, or at least I have since I bought my first copy of the software on disc over a decade ago. Sibelius and the digital audio workstation Logic Pro were the main programs on my 17-inch Mac laptop computer, which I no longer have. Despite all my efforts, my old laptop finally gave […]

My favourite DAW is Logic X because it was the first digital audio workstation in which I learned to produce music. There are many reasons to love Logic X, and the score editor is one of them. Logic X is not the only DAW with a music notation editor; Cubase takes it to another level […]

There are many things to consider when printing your music, font style, font size, system spacing, stave spacing, overall look, feel, readability, presentation, and page size. Why is the page size so important? The page size dictates everything font style, font size, system spacing, stave spacing, feel, readability, and overall presentation. The same music page […]

In another article, I wrote about how I was a Sibelius user, and then I found noteflight. Here’s the primary problem: Sibelius can get rather expensive if I’m not scoring music continually. However, noteflight is so inexpensive that paid access is almost impossible to refuse. For example, in Canada, at the time of this article, […]