Scoring Notes

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Scoring Notes

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Sat Oct 3rd Getting on the same page
Sep 5th Q & A(gain)
Aug 1st Q & A(I)

Scoring Notes

Oct 3, 2026
1 hour
64 MB

Opening someone else’s notation file can take a little detective work. So can opening your own file from a year ago. After two 90-minute Q&A episodes, Philip Rothman and David MacDonald return for a (slightly) shorter conversation about figuring out what’s going on in a score before you start changing it. David brings questions from helping his students; Philip brings his experience exchanging files with composers, clients, and colleagues. We start with the messages that appear when a file opens. There may be something useful in that dialog you just dismissed! Missing fonts, in part...

Scoring Notes

Getting on the same page

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