Music Notation

Articles & Blogs

• Finale version 27.3 review
• Scoring Notes, Dec. 2, 2022
• Dorico and The Rite of Spring
• by Stephen Taylor; Scoring Notes, Jan. 26, 2021
• Dorico 3.5 review
• Scoring Notes, May 20, 2020
• Finale version 26 review
• Scoring Notes, Oct. 10, 2018
• George Hess Music
• Notation Wars Revisited
• GeoMusings, Feb. 19, 2018
• Create Music with Notion
• GeoMusings, Apr. 11, 2015
• Scoring Notes

Miscellaneous

• Garritan
• Virtual Instruments & Sound Libraries
• NotePerformer 4
• AI-based playback of musical notation

Video Reviews

• Avid’s Sibelius
• Tantacrul; YouTube
• MuseScore
• Tantacrul; YouTube
• Steinberg's Dorico
• Tantacrul; YouTube

Dorico

• Dorico Home
• Making Notes
• Official blog
• User Forum
• User Manuals

Finale

• Finale User Manual for Mac
• Help Resources for Finale v27
• Finale Home
• Finale Blog
• MakeMusic Help Center

LilyPond

• LilyPond Home
• User Forum

LilyPond: Reference

• Learning Manual
• Notation Reference

LilyPond: Misc.

• Automatic accidentals
• Creating titles, headers and footers
• Formatting text
• Multiple voices
• OOoLilyPond
• LibreOffice & OpenOffice extension
• Page layout
• LilyPond: Four Bars per Line System
• Setting up Emacs for LilyPond

MuseScore

• MuseScore Home
• Free & Open Source
• Handbook
• How to
• User Forum
• Musescore - YouTube Channel

PreSonus Notion 6

• Notion Documentation
• Notion Overview
• User Forum

Sibelius

• Sibelius Home
• Sibelius Forum
• Five Sibelius Plug-ins
• The Music Transcriber
• Sibelius Plugins
• Transitioning from Sibelius 6
• Scoring Notes