Advice and Techniques

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1. Free Scores, and other musical links 1 2

   By Mark, January 9, 2007
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   • solsidosi
   • August 16, 2019

2. 16th Century Counterpoint - 2 Voices, 1st Species Primer 1 2 3 4

   By composerorganist, September 23, 2008
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   • Monojin
   • January 6, 2015

3. Scoring a Short Film Clip

   By Marius, January 17, 2010
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   • mixingmasteringstudio
   • May 7, 2014

4. A Crash-Course In Writing Fugues 1 2 3

   By J. Lee Graham, July 17, 2006
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   • lord.wohl.wyvernspur@gmail.com
   • May 27, 2013

5. IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project 1 2 3 4

   By Guest Anders, June 30, 2007
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   • keysguitar
   • August 2, 2011

6. Forum Guidelines

   By benxiwf, May 4, 2010
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   • CheeseLord
   • May 4, 2010

7. Creating melodies from pre-established harmony (part II)

   By Guest QcCowboy, January 20, 2007
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   • Guest QcCowboy
   • January 20, 2007

8. Is It Too Late To Consider A Career As A Composer? 1 2

   By Arianna Bailey, August 15, 2012   

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   • composer
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   • AngelCityOutlaw
   • Yesterday at 11:42 PM

9. Melody or harmony first?

   By Stevemc90, July 24, 2008
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   • jejrekmek
   • January 16

10. Proper Accidental Notation

    By pateceramics, May 6, 2013   

    • accidentals
    • key signature
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    • vvvv
    • January 2

11. Half-Step Trill in MuseScore 3

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, December 16, 2020
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    • PeterthePapercomPoser
    • December 17, 2020

12. Ascending Sequence Help

    By Markus Boyd, December 7, 2020
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    • Markus Boyd
    • December 8, 2020

13. Is this bad notation, considering that I have hemiolas going on?

    By caters, December 1, 2020
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    • caters
    • December 2, 2020

14. The evaded cadence

    By OliverSmith, November 13, 2020   

    • harmony
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    • Quinn
    • November 23, 2020

15. what is a harmony?

    By maxlazenby44, October 29, 2020
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    • Tónskáld
    • October 29, 2020

16. Exercises

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, October 23, 2020
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    • Quinn
    • October 27, 2020

17. Why different half note time signatures at different tempo extremes?

    By caters, October 24, 2020
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    • Tónskáld
    • October 24, 2020

18. Melodic Dictation

    By GhostofVermeer, December 15, 2009
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    • PeterthePapercomPoser
    • October 21, 2020

19. Composing metal 1 2

    By Black Anathema, December 25, 2007
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    • Camzilla54
    • October 19, 2020

20. what is linear harmony?

    By Calevera, February 9, 2011
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    • Luis Hernández
    • October 11, 2020

21. MuseScore 3 Shortcuts and Shortcut Keys?

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, September 13, 2020
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    • PeterthePapercomPoser
    • October 10, 2020

22. Deceptive Cadence

    By Georgios, October 3, 2020   

    • music theory
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    • PeterthePapercomPoser
    • October 10, 2020

23. Ever build harmony by stacking down?

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, October 7, 2020
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    • AngelCityOutlaw
    • October 7, 2020

24. Advice/Encouragement

    By Keaton Hoy, October 1, 2020
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    • Keaton Hoy
    • October 7, 2020

25. Alberti Bass type feel in the strings, Am I approaching it right?

    By caters, October 2, 2020
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    • caters
    • October 3, 2020