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MuseScore 4 is released

MuseScore 4 has been released. This is exciting news, particularly for many of my students who need more composing power than a web app but are limited by the expensive costs of the professional options.

You can download MuseScore 4 for free here. I also recommend you read David MacDonald’s Scoring Notes review by clicking the link below.

Long-awaited MuseScore 4 release brings major improvements to engraving and audio – Scoring Notes:

Today’s release of MuseScore 4 is a major update and quite possibly the most significant one in the open-source application’s history since the release of MuseScore 1.0 in 2011. It includes major improvements to the user interface, layout, engraving, and playback features.

MuseScore 4 is delivered via a hub which installs both the MuseScore scoring application and the orchestral plug-in Muse Sounds, The MuseScore application can be downloaded separately, as well.

Not coincidentally, this is also the first major version of of MuseScore to be released under the product leadership of Martin Keary (Tantacrul). Coming nearly two years after the last MuseScore update (3.6) and nearly four years after the release of MuseScore 3, Martin told Scoring Notes today that, “I’ve worked on a lot of complex creation software and this is the largest release I’ve ever put out,” including the launch of Paint 3D and a variety of PS3 games.

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Bob Chreste joins the show to talk about MuseClass, a free musical assessment management platform from MuseGroup.

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🔗 MuseScore Announces Version 4, and Transition from Notation Software to Composition Software

In case you didn’t see it, MuseScore made a big announcement last month.

MuseScore 4. Moving from notation software to composition software. | MuseScore:

Although notation is always of paramount importance to MuseScore, we want to expand our capabilities to include other areas of modern composition: experimentation, sharing & collaboration, working with mixed media, sophisticated organisation and being able to produce high-quality audio. MuseScore 4 is the first step in achieving this expanded focus.

However, this does not mean that we are going to start adding new features at the expense of existing ones. In order to achieve our goals, we need to look ‘inwards’ first. Armed with two years of user feedback on MuseScore 3, we have begun the process of making significant improvements to almost all aspects of the application: improved engraving defaults, simplification of the interface, more powerful functionality and an overhaul of its appearance, to name a few.

I don’t use MuseScore often, but I know it is widely respected as a lightweight and accessible notation editor. It really resonates with a lot of the teachers in my district, particularly those who are comfortable with using apps over web browsers to compose, and who don’t want something over the top and expensive like Sibelius or Finale.

This is exciting news for MuseScore and I am curious to see where their development goes.

Some of the folks from MuseScore appeared on a recently released episode of the Scoring Notes podcast, which I haven’t listened to yet, but suspect they go into more detail about the transition to version 4.

🔗 macOS High Sierra is out! Make sure you know which notation software is compatible!

The Scoring Notes blog is keeping track of High Sierra compatibility updates for all the major notation editors…

Music notation software and macOS High Sierra:

Today Apple is releasing macOS High Sierra (10.13), the newest iteration of its Mac operating system. High Sierra’s most significant change is its use of a new file system, Apple File System (APFS), for computers with all-flash storage. High Sierra brings a number of other new features, too, but on this blog we’ll focus on its compatibility with desktop music notation software: Sibelius, Finale, Dorico, and MuseScore.

 

🔗 OpenScore: Liberating Sheet Music

OpenScore: Liberating sheet music:

Launched just a few weeks ago, OpenScore is a new crowdsourcing initiative to digitize sheet music by the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, and make them freely available for everyone to use for any purpose. We have come a long way since we announced the project back in February, and I would like to share the developments with you now.

This is an incredibly ambitious initiative and will have a tremendously positive impact on the music community. I admire their method of creating incentive for users to contribute to the catalogue:

The lesson we took from other projects is that if you sit around and wait for people to transcribe the pieces they like, you’ll end up with ten transcriptions of the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, and none of the other movements. We will overcome this by placing a bounty on works that have not yet been transcribed. The bounty comes in the form of free membership of MuseScore’s score sharing website.

I might consider transcribing something. I am also going to be contributing to their Kickstarter, which you can view by clicking here.