Hello! Thanks for all the great discussion in last week's MuseScore Café about ideas for building a high-quality score library. I'm still not exactly sure how we will proceed but stay tuned for more on this topic, as there definitely seems to be interest in the topic!

This week in ​Practical Counterpoint​, we continue our work on imitation. Music Master Class will feature some really interesting short "inventions" created by students in the course!

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MuseScore Café

This week in the MuseScore Café with Marc Sabatella, we continue our first-Wednesday "ask me anything" series. Come with your questions, and I'll do my best to answer!

Tip of the Week

One question I often get is, how do you set the tempo for a score? Perhaps because expectations are set by audio or MIDI software, people sometimes expect this to be a setting you make somewhere separate from the score itself. But just like you control volume by adding actual dynamic marks to the score, you control tempo by adding actual tempo markings. In this video post, I show you how to add a tempo marking to set the tempo of your score.

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Music Master Class

This week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we look at the "inventions" composed for the Practical Counterpoint​ course.

In Theory

Contrapuntal music often makes use of imitation - repeating a single motif or longer theme immediately after the initial statement, usually in another part. The repeated passage can be at the same pitch, or it can be transposed higher or lower. In this video post, I show why imitation at the fifth - transposing the passage a fifth higher or fourth lower - is especially useful.