This fully illustrated primer unravels the intricacies of Notepad, the powerful program that enables musicians to edit any style of music into a desktop masterpiece.

(Book). Fully updated for Finale 2005, this book remains the definitive guide for understanding and using this powerful, state-of-the-art music notation software. Finale's wide range of capabilities yields a steep learning curve, but The Finale Primer guides users through the powerful intricacies of Finale 2005 one step at a time. This hands-on book assists with all facets of music preparation whether transcribing an existing piece of music or creating an original work and helps maximize the benefits of Finale's invaluable capabilities in editing, reformatting, and reorganizing musical material.

This is the complete guide to PrintMusic, the inexpensive but powerful music notation program that shows users how to enter, edit, hear, view, lay out and print high-quality music. Illustrations.

This comprehensive reference manual unravels all the intricacies of Finale 2014, for Windows and Mac platforms. The Finale Primer 2014 Edition helps you set up, edit, reformat, and reorganize your notation into a musical masterpiece. This fully illustrated step-by-step guide offers exercises, projects, creative ideas, and power-user tips that will improve your speed and help you become a Finale expert. This book is indispensable whether you're arranging an existing piece of music or creating an original work. This easy-to-use book includes: * Cross-platform instructions for both Macintosh and Windows * Tips to get the most out of Finale's powerful features such as HyperScribe, the Graphics Tool, and MusicScore Lite * Special sections on creative applications of Finale

(Educational Piano Library). This book is meant to assist teachers who wish to introduce their students to creative composition but have limited lesson time available and feel the need for some direction in starting and continuing the process successfully. The process involves devoting as little as five minutes of lesson time to composition, but at every lesson over a period of, for example, six to eight weeks. Suggestions in the concise Lesson Plans help bring about gradual changes or improvements from week to week that are enough to keep the piece developing, and, more importantly, to keep the student immersed and motivated in the process.

This second edition of Song Sheets to Software includes completely revised and updated listings of music software, instructional media, and music-related Internet Web sites of use to all musicians, whether hobbyist or professional. This book is a particularly valuable resource for the private studio and classroom music teacher.

An unbiased and non-brand specific guide to selecting the appropriate music technology products for your music program, based on grade level, budget, and your computers' platform or operating system. In this book, chapters are organized by music technology competencies, and cover from electronic musical instruments, to music notation software.

Comprehensive directory of databases as well as services "involved in the production and distribution of information in electronic form." There is a detailed subject index and function/service classification as well as name, keyword, and geographical location indexes.