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Quickly and easily write songs and typeset your music, all with realistic audio playback. free trial buy now MagicScore SongWriter 8.2 is a notation program for writing songs, typesetting scores, creating rehearsal and learning materials, and teaching and studying music. MagicScore SongWriter is the most innovative program in the MagicScore product line. Our goal was […]

Keyboard input in MagicScore programs MagicScore has several easy ways to enter notes into your score. Keyboard Input is one the fastest input modes and is mostly used by music typists. Be sure that the button in the Notes panel is active. The pitch of the note to be entered is chosen by the Up/Down […]

Mouse input in MagicScore In order to activate Mouse Input mode, switch the button in the lower left corner of the Notes to the following state: When exclusively using mouse input for entering notes, you choose note values by scrolling the mouse wheel or by clicking the corresponding button in the Notes panel. You can […]

Create and format sheet music 1,5 times faster with the Active Focus function Using the Focus function, you can essentially reduce the time needed to set up a score. Focus allows you to edit notes elsewhere in a piece of music while leaving the cursor entry point in its original position allowing you to move […]

5. Scales and Accidentals Scales are a set of sounds ordered by their pitches. The pitch of a sound is just one part of how we perceive the note in a piece of music. Each sound that we hear has a specific volume, color (timbre), and pitch. Even people with little or no experience in […]

4. Rhythm In order to correctly read and play a rhythm you have to learn how to correctly count beats and their subdivisions. In a duple meter like 2/4 or 4/4 you count the principal beats up to two, in a triple meter such as ¾ time you count the beats up to three and […]

OK, now we know how pitches are notated and can play them. We only need to understand at what moment of time each sound has to be played. It’s easy!

The music essentially has grown from two kinds of activities: dancing and singing. Dancing is a series of moves or steps. From one foot to another, in time with the music. And singing... Singing has no steps, but it has accents, stressed syllables of the lyrics. Military songs have both. However, lets us move from the simple to the complex.

1. Clefs and staff For the most amateur musicians, music notation looks odd and obscure. Yet we all know that any problem can be solved and any riddle can be guessed, given a… clue. The good news is that music has such clues or keys, or clefs. There are several clefs, each having its own […]

Recently, the abbreviation OMR can be often seen on the Web and in the media. It stands for Optical Music Recognition (similar to OCR = Optical Character Recognition). OMR is definitely a very promising computer technique aimed at the facilitation and speeding-up of the initial conversion of printed music into digital form. Attempts of music […]

The new Magic Score Maestro 8 became much more convenient and efficient. We added a large variety of sound effects. Special mention must be made of bends, which are now implemented with the correct graphics and sound effects. We also improved the publication of music on the Web and on our Music Portal. Work with […]