After many months of development, I am thrilled to announce the availability of my new online course, Harmony and Chord Progressions! This course covers the same sort of material you would learn in a university course on music theory, and in similar depth. But I take a very practical approach...

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This week in the MuseScore Café, we continue with the theme of our fall challenge - creating an original choral composition based on a classic poem about autumn - by looking specifically at engraving issues in choral music. The word "engraving" literally refers to the process of typesetting on a...

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This week in the MuseScore Café, we continue with the theme of our fall challenge - creating an original choral composition based on a classic poem about autumn - by looking specifically at issues regarding writing for voices. Vocal ranges, ensemble arrangement, voice leading, MuseScore features...

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I'd like to teach the world to sing - but, I am a pretty lousy singer, so I'll focus instead on the part of the song about "perfect harmony"! This week in the MuseScore Café, we continue with the theme of our fall challenge - creating an original choral composition based on a classic poem about...

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In recognition of the change of season, I am going to try something special this week in the MuseScore Café: I challenge you to create and share an original four-part vocal arrangement, setting a classic poem about fall to music! To learn more, tune in live Wednesday at 12:30 PM Eastern (16:30...

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This week in the MuseScore Café, we look at keys in music - key signatures, modulation, and the relationship between keys, modes, and scales. I talk about the music itself and show how everything works in MuseScore. As always, we get underway at 12:30 PM (16:30 GMT) on Wednesday. Tune in live...

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This week in the MuseScore Café, I will create a new piece of music live in real-time, on the spur of the moment! I will talk through my process both in terms of the composition itself and how I notate it in MuseScore. I tried this for a Café last year and we had a lot of fun but I didn't get a...

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This week in the MuseScore Café, I discuss ways of integrating MuseScore into an environment that may involve a variety of different devices, tools, websites, and of course other musicians. I will demonstrate how I use MuseScore on Chromebook and on Windows as part of my work in education as...

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This week in the MuseScore Café, I discuss writing for wind instruments - woodwinds, brass, harmonica, etc. There are all sorts of general principles to be aware of, also some instrument-specific considerations. As usual, the Café is Wednesday at 12:30 PM Eastern time, which is currently 16:30...

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I find that one of the biggest hurdles people face in learning music theory is a misunderstanding about what music theory actually is. People hear about all these "rules" they have to learn. They worry they won't be able to remember them all. They fear that if they follow the rules, their music...

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