Discover music software and technology; how to use digital audio workstations (DAWs) and music notation software, plus composition with synthesised sounds.

Notation software will help you lay out your ideas and let you listen to them, but the ideas themselves have to come from you. It is best to develop musical ideas as a live musician using your ...

When time's a ticking, the best music notation software will help you to get the job done fast. You know the, ahem, score – nothing in life is more fleeting than a good creative idea. So, when ...

Music Theory 101 is a free and interactive resource that takes the subject back to first principles, so you get explainers on notes, scales, intervals, chords, chord progressions, rhythm and musical ...

We thought we’d seen it all, but these are some truly harrowing examples of classical sheet music. Paganini has nothing on these. We’ve all experienced the unpleasant feeling of intimidation that a ...

Musical notation in its groups - from time and key signatures, through ornamentation, accidentals and form. Learn it by heart and be a better musician. Recite it at social occasions to impress your ...

ARTS & CULTURE 5 1/2 Examples of Experimental Music Notation In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music ...

For example, the opening phrase of the nursery rhyme “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” would be rendered as g4 g > d4 d e8 e e e d4 r4 in Alda.

I chose an object-oriented paradigm because the musical material contains multiple instances of similar types of data. Initially, the top-level Class was Score, defined as one page of notation for one ...