When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in ...

You probably didn't hear about it, but the people that made the music of Broadway come to life in the pit all woke up with anxiety this morning as MakeMusic (formerly known as Coda Music Technologies) ...

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, MakeMusic (formerly known as Coda Music Technologies) announced earlier this week that effective immediately the music notation program known as Finale would shut ...

However, if you are not much concerned about playback algorithms sounding a bit more realistic or hesitant to buy a new software, try MuseScore. The software comes at an unbeatable price – it’s free!

MakeMusic have end-of-lifed Finale, the industry standard music notation software, which has been a mainstay on Mac since 1988 -- the same year that Photoshop, Quark XPress and Office were released.

Tewksbury, Mass.-based Avid Technology has announced the acquisition of London, England’s Sibelius Software in a deal valued at $23 million in cash. The deal puts on of the leading developers of music ...

There are only a couple pieces of software that do this: they all are limited to single-note entry, they are all integrated into bigger packages like Finale, and they all suck anyway. Go to a pawn ...