Hello! MuseScore 4.4.2 is now available, fixing most of the issues reported recently. As usual, automatic updates will follow in a couple of days or so, but you can update now via Muse Hub or via musescore.org. For more on what has changed, see the announcement on musescore.org. One thing to note is that this update does not fix the issue some people with multiple monitors are experiencing with popups appearing on the wrong display. There will be a 4.4.3 coming later to deal with that.
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Shifting our attention to the music itself, this week we continue our work on melody in the Musicianship Workshop space. I'll be looking especially at the relationship of the melody to harmony and/or counterpoint or other simultaneous parts. Each note of the melody can be perceived differently and have different resolution tendencies depending on what it is sounding against, and we'll be exploring these phenomena this week. If you'd like to join us for our month-long exploration of melody - and other topics going forward - please become a Gold-level member of the Outside Shore Music community, then pop over to the workshop to see what we're up to and get started!
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Mastering MuseScore

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MuseScore Café

This week in the MuseScore Café with Marc Sabatella, we continue our third-Wednesday "score of the month" series. I will demonstrate entry of a real-world score into MuseScore Studio and explain my process as I go.

Tip of the Week

MuseScore Studio 4.4 now allows you to assign dynamics to an individual voice of a staff or individual staff of an instrument. This can be useful when writing music for piano, where you want the melody to be brought out louder than the accompaniment regardless of whether the accompaniment is in another voice or on another staff. It is also useful for orchestra music where you are combining the first and second parts for a given instrument onto a single staff, in order to save space. In this video post, I show you how to assign a dynamic marking to a single voice on a staff or to a single staff of an instrument.

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Music Master Class

This week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we continue our exploration of melody by looking at music created for the projects in the Musicianship Workshop space.

In Theory

A recent discussion about the harmonic implications of melody got me thinking about the relationship between these, and how the harmonic (and rhythmic) context of the accompaniment you provide to a melody can influence your perception of that melody and how you might want to develop it. In this video post, I take a well-known melody and present it in a few different versions with different accompanying chords and rhythms, to give you an idea of just how big a difference this can make.