A new version of free notation software MuseScore adds quite a few welcome aesthetic improvements.
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A look at one possible approach to college auditions in the time of COVID.
What to Expect at (Some) College Auditions
If you’re a college music student (or will be soon), I hope you’ve read this article: An Impossible Choice: Music Majors, COVID-19, and an Uncertain Future. I’m a bit late to it (it was originally published on August 17), but the authors do a great job of distilling the mental and […]
Music, College, and COVID
A statistical analysis of Beethoven attempts to find what made his music great.
Beethoven + Statistical Analysis =…
An excellent article from Jason Haaheim about how art and arts orgs are more important now than ever.
The Arts and Social Justice
If you’re reading this from anywhere in America, you’ve probably been caught up one way or another in the protests across the country about the recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and most recently, David McAtee at the hands of the police. Compared to these tragedies, I […]
A Little Hope
In a previous blog entry I talked about some projects that I and others are using to fill up the time due to the cancellation of all upcoming performances and most teaching. In that blog entry (which you can find here), I talked about going through several technique books that […]
Warm-up (and learn to practice) with Solo Training
SmartScore is WIndows software designed to convert and edit sheet music to digital PDFs.