Open Goldberg Variations - Setting Bach Free
Robert Douglass, a German horn player and MuseScore enthusiast, has a noble project he'd like to share with us. He wants to create a new score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations,...
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Calling for Google Summer of Code 2011
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. For the summer of 2011, the MuseScore developer team is...
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Lead Sheets in MuseScore
My original lead sheet tutorial was written using MuseScore 1.0, and quite a few things have changed (for the better) between versions 1.0 and 1.1. So I have completely rewritten the tutorial to take...
View ArticleHow the Open Goldberg Variations Project is pushing MuseScore forward
There's a new update on the Open Goldberg Variations Kickstarter project detailing some of the new things coming to MuseScore as a result of the project. Werner and Thomas came to Cologne and met...
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MuseScore installed on 10,000 computers in Quebec
CSSMI, the Board of Education of La Seigneurie des Milles-îles in Canada, introduced on their blog a list of new software that became available on their computer network. Along with other free...
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MuseScore 1.1 is available for download
We are proud to present MuseScore 1.1, our best and most stable release to date. Creating beautiful sheet music has never been so easy. MuseScore is free and open source notation software available for...
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New Jazz / Lead Sheet Features in MuseScore 1.1
With the release of MuseScore 1.1, there are a number of enhancements and new features that will be of interest to jazz musicians and others creating lead sheets. I have updated my tutorial on creating...
View ArticleNew ebook available – MuseScore: The Essential Beginner's Guide
MuseScore users might be interested in my new ebook – MuseScore: The Essential Beginner's Guide. It's available at a special launch price for 4 days. The book contains step-by-step tutorials showing...
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Finished redoing my jazz compositions (50+ of them!) in MuseScore
For anyone interested, I've just finished creating MuseScore versions of 50+ of my jazz compositions. It's something I've been working on in the background for the last few months ever since 1.1 came...
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A Christmas update from MuseScore
Our last news update is already from a couple of months ago with the maintenance release of MuseScore 1.1. It has been a successful release with more than half a million downloads and counting....
View ArticleRoadmap for MuseScore 2.0
A week ago, I was at FOSDEM with Thomas and Werner to promote MuseScore to fellow developers, to new users, and to husbands, fathers of new users. Here are some photos. It was a great opportunity to...
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MuseScore 1.2 is released
We are proud to present MuseScore 1.2, our best and most stable release to date. In the past 8 months, MuseScore 1.1 has been downloaded nearly one million times in more than 200 countries! It’s a...
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3.000.000 downloads!
MuseScore passed 3 million downloads today, starting the counter 4 years ago. This would never had happened without the work and dedication of hundreds of MuseScore contributors, all passionate to make...
View ArticleWhat Do *You* Use MuseScore For?
With 3,000,000 people having downloaded MuseScore, I imagine there must be quite a few of us doing interesting things with it. From newcomers to music software writing their first compositions, to...
View ArticleOpenGoldberg score release date: May 28th
Good news! We've set the release date of the digital OpenGoldberg score on May 28th. For those who are not familiar with the OpenGoldberg project, you can learn all about it at...
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Introducing the new QML based plugin framework
Before explaining the new plugin framework, let's define what problems we faced with the plugin subsystem in MuseScore 1.2. One problem is the binding to the qt library. The code to enable this is very...
View ArticleTABs keyboard note entry: ready for testing
...well, almost! First of all, a nightly version 74b4a45 (2012-09-01) or later is required. Currently, such a nightly is only available for Mac but it should be available for Linux soon and for Windows...
View ArticleAnyone using MuseScore for Education?
Hello everyone, My name's Mark Johnson and I work for OSS Watch, an open source advisory service for UK education based at the University of Oxford.We're currently compiling a list of Open Source...
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Google Summer of Code 2013
The 2013 edition of Google Summer of Code has been announced. It's a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source...
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MuseScore 1.3 is released
We are happy to announce the release of MuseScore 1.3. It's our best and most stable release to date, fixing several critical bugs - including one which resulted in distorted sound playback for many...
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