Pizzicato Music Composition and Notation Software

Arpege Music is developing the following music composition and notation software : - "Harmony and Counterpoint", the perfect companion to a classic harmony course in a music school. - "Pizzicato" music composition and notation software, published in...

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Survey for music composers We are interested in hearing from music composers. All may take a survey (that we make in the framework of software research and development) here :

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Creating your own music for Christmas, New Year, or simply Winter evenings?  For yourself, your family, your musical community? It may be done easily with Pizzicato music composition  software.   #passion #creativity  

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Santa Claus  in your Music  School ?

Santa Claus  in your Music School ?

            So simple with free music software ‘Pizzicato Light’. Smart fun for teachers and children!

Register at no cost :

http://www.arpegemusic.com/music-education-software.htm#B4

#freebies  #teachers  #schooldays #schoolholidays  

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Back to school! Here are the options for teachers / facilitators to introduce the Pizzicato music software in their school / Music Association

Back to school! Here are the options for teachers / facilitators to introduce the Pizzicato music software in their school / Music Association

  Are you a music teacher or an active member of an promoting music? You may share your students or chorists the benefits of Pizzicato music composition and notation software membership in your classrooms.

Whether you choose a high quality level formula (with a financial participation) or the free basic educational program (which offers to every student a teacher the ability to write and print…

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From paper sheet music to computer music files: the needs of classical music composers and how software developers contribute to progress

From paper sheet music to computer music files: the needs of classical music composers and how software developers contribute to progress

  How composers try to combine the use of paper and computer

Professional music composers are high skilled users of both computers music and music paper. In their practice, they try to combines the advantages of paper sheet music use and computer music tools.

Their main questions are not related to the best way to exploit existing music composition and notation software but to the best manner to…

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Music information needed by listeners and how music composers and performers can fulfill them

We know it for decades: information is a main key in society. Actually there is nothing new under the sun: education is transmission of information and it always contributed to the building of better human groups. Maybe the novelty is that more and more individuals today can erase the lacks of traditional education and complete it more easily than thousand or even hundred years ago.

In matter of…

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Musicians and music consumption – How the musician can attract new listeners

Musicians and music consumption – How the musician can attract new listeners

Musicians and music consumption – How the musician can attract new listeners

Music as phenomenon linked to mental process, emotions and physiological arousal

The reason why most people take part in musical activity, be it composing, performing or listening is that music is capable of arousing in them deep and significant emotions (research made by Sloboda).

Also musical thinking offers a more…

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Music notation API monetization – Involving customers when you create an API – Sheet music as stream of revenue

Music notation API monetization – Involving customers when you create an API – Sheet music as stream of revenue

  Proprietary and open source

Software users do not only demonstrate that developers’ work is useful and that they do something right, they contribute to validate products, as testers and faithful users in the framework of proprietary software and as members of communities where they are somewhere users but also volunteers entrepreneurs.

All professionals involved in the music notation software…

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Physiological and emotional arousals of music on composers/performers and listeners in the digital context

Physiological and emotional arousals of music on composers/performers and listeners in the digital context

  Composers and performers – their skills and their musical repertoire

In matter of music, artificial intelligence specialists help their readers to understand that the brain is the place both to give orders that create motor representations (for example singing) and perceptual representations (listening to music).

And indeed all music in practice is contained in these three words: creating,…

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Music sharing tools to enhance music software business model

Music sharing tools to enhance music software business model

What are the use and opportunities for music sharing technologies?

Music sharing technologies are software designed to let people enrich existing friendships and make new social contacts both in leisure and work activities. So both professional and amateur composers can find an interest to frequent music sharing platforms, they can publish their works and discover the works of other musicians.

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What does 'intuitive music composition' really mean?

What does ‘intuitive music composition’ really mean?

What does the expression “intuitive composition” really mean?

Every composer (whether a professional or an amateur) has his own music composition method. Some composer will start playing guitar, up to the moment when some idea comes out of an improvisation. He will then try to develop this idea, add a rhythmic pattern or a melody. Another one will sing a melody freely and go to the keyboard to…

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How to combine several melodies (1)

How to combine several melodies (1)

Today let us try to assemble and explain some rules regarding the way in which various melodies may be combined.

Traditionally, these rules are learned the hard way in harmony and counterpoint. Learning and applying them may take you years of practice. But I am afraid that if you work only with these techniques for years, while not also trying to compose by yourself on a free basis, you will not…

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The universal method to compose music (2)

The universal method to compose music (2)

What did we found ? Oh yes, an universal method to learn how to compose music…!

So if you systematically apply – with perseverance – the 10 points listed last month, you should then be able to compose your own music and to successfully publish your CDs. Let us analyze those points in details.

Point 1 is “A regular listening to various musical styles”.

This seems elementary: if you want to compose…

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Sheet music of the public domain or under copyright, derivative works – some technical and legal issues resolved by orchestra and choir directors , the help of music software

Sheet music of the public domain or under copyright, derivative works – some technical and legal issues resolved by orchestra and choir directors , the help of music software

Copyright, public domain, derivative works in general

The copyright is a legal framework that provides an author the right to control how his/her personal work is used, including the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, display and perform it. A copyright can protect musical works, as well as sa oftware or a database.

At the contrary, the public domain includes all works who are not…

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Sheet music and music performance renewed by software developers

Sheet music and music performance renewed by software developers

  Quality and individuality of music performance: why sheet music will always be essential

Why is a live music performance attractive and highly valued, if not because it is related to a familiar musical universe?

Of course, the quality of execution has a great part in the success of the performance, even if musicians generally agree to consider that there are many equally valid ways of playing…

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Universal method to compose music (1)

Universal method to compose music (1)

Is it possible to learn to compose music or is it only a gift you possess or do not possess ?

This question is probably worrying more than one musician or beginner. Music must seem strange or mysterious to those who only know music by listening and appreciating it. How to line up notes, rhythms and chords to create such a harmonious set of sound ? Then you say to yourself you will never get…

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Managing sounds to compose music

Managing sounds to compose music

We saw the various possibilities offered by a sound card, as well as the methods used to generate sounds.

While working with a MIDI software (like Pizzicato), it is useful to select, collect, handle and play instruments sounds with which you want your scores and composition played. How ?

I suggest the use of the SoundFont standard, created by the Creative Labs and Emu companies. It is a well…

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