Philip Rothman and David MacDonald discuss the essential elements of score preparation and production that make a difference in not only the perception of your music, but how it gets rehearsed and, ultimately, performed. Everything from rehearsal marks, placing cues, laying out your music, and page layout can be expertly fine-tuned by music notation software — but only if you know what results you’re looking to achieve in the first place.

Learn more on the Scoring Notes blog:

Score preparation and production notes
Cues in Dorico
Check Redundancies plug-in in Sibelius
Going keyless in your score
Keyless instruments in a keyed score
Don’t extract parts
A few brief thoughts about the size of music paper