Hello! I wanted to give you a heads up that I am in the process of setting up a new studio, so bear with me if there are any glitches in my live events this week.
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Meanwhile, this week in the ​Practical Counterpoint​ course, we're continuing to expand to three parts and beyond. I'll be posting some new things for us to work on shortly.
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Mastering MuseScore

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MuseScore Café

This week in the MuseScore Café with Marc Sabatella, ... I am keeping things flexible as I am not sure what my Internet status will be. One way or another I'll have something for you to check out!

Tip of the Week

Repeat barlines are useful to tell musicians - or MuseScore - to play a given passage twice. But what if you want it played more than twice? In this video post, I show how to use the "Play count" property to control the number of times a given repeated passage is played.

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Music Master Class

This week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we'll continue looking at counterpoint in three or more parts and discussing the course material from ​Practical Counterpoint​.

In Theory

Usually when we discuss counterpoint, we think about fugues and other polyphonic pieces with a very clear sense having of multiple independent voices. But the same principles can apply even in music that is more homophonic - music where one part is the melody and everything else is accompaniment. In this video post, I show an example of Schumann using counterpoint in subtle ways to create interest within the accompaniment to his beautiful melody, Träumerei.