Hello! This week in the Musicianship Workshop, we start creating compositions based on a model provided by an existing work of our choice. This project will be our focus for the remainder of the month. This ongoing workshop is becoming a pretty exciting thing, and people are learning a lot and enjoying the process. We'd love to have you as a part of it as well! If you'd like to join us, please become a Gold-level member of the Outside Shore Music community, and then head to the workshop to see what we're up to and get started!

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'll be entering a relatively simple piano piece into MuseScore Studio and talking through my process as I go. This is a great way to get a hands-on overview of how to work with MuseScore!

Tip of the Week

Repeat signs are normally used at the end of a measure (bar) to signify that a section is to be played again after concluding that measure. But sometimes we wish to jump back to repeat a section from a point somewhere within a measure rather than at the end of it. In this video post, I show you how to add a mid-measure repeat sign in a way that works correctly for the playback and the notation (including the measure numbering).

Musicianship

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Music Master Class

This week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we will discuss and analyze our favorite compositions, as well as check out projects submitted in the Musicianship Workshop space.

In Theory

The term "form" can refer to the structure of one theme of a piece, or it can refer to how multiple themes are combined to form a larger whole. In this video post, we look at the form of the main theme of Beethoven's "Für Elise" as well as the form created through the juxtaposition of that theme with two other contrasting themes to form what is called a "rondo".