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Arranging Church Music Organ Music Website News

Latest additions to the catalog (May 2012)

New additions We’ve added a few new titles to the website recently. They are two Organ Hymn Accompaniments, an Instrumental Solo with piano and optional rhythm section and strings as well as a String Quartet piece. Update: While not discussed below, we’ve also added two settings of The Star Spangled Banner, one for Strings, one […]

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New video: Importing XML files into Sibelius 7

Importing XML files into Sibelius 7 I’ve posted a new video on YouTube about importing and editing XML files in Sibelius 7. One can take MusicXML files exported from such programs as Finale and import into Sibelius. Some tips on doing that and editing them once they are in Sibelius. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5gC_aH4pIc] In addition to […]

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Arranging General Other Piano Lessons

A musician’s thoughts about the iPad

Background For about 9 years I’ve been using the MusicPad Pro as a way to view my sheet music rather than carry around dozens of books of music. The MusicPad is a 10×14 inch tablet with only 1022×766 resolution at I believe 72 (possibly 96) dpi. It weighs nearly 5 pounds. All it did was […]

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Digital Sheet Music Organization

Organizing Digital Sheet Music Introduction I have thousands of sheet music titles in either PDF, freehand/musicpad or Sibelius format. All can easily be formatted to standard letter size PDF files which are great for printing out and viewing on an iPad or a computer screen. So, PDF format seems to be the logical choice as […]

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O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing

Our latest additions to the catalog at our website consists of the title: O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing. There are two titles available. They are both upbeat, rock/pop adaptations of this classic hymn tune also known as AZMON. One is an MP3 recording and the other is a sheet music transcription for solo instrument. The sheet […]