One of this week's assignments was to explore cost free notation
software for composition units and note learning in general. Overall both programs are great and free. Since I have been
using Sibelius for many years now, and due to the fact that I have become very familiar with its palette I found Musescore to be more similar to it and more user friendly than
Noteflight. However, I think
Noteflight is a more practical classroom tool because it is an interactive web-based program. It is
easy accessible and if used in a classroom setting it gives students the ability to share projects by embedding them
on different web media sites. Since Noteflight is a free internet-based tool it comes
with some limitations but these limitations are limitations only to professional musicians therefore the limitations do not make an unsuitable classroom tool. One of the limitations that I encountered while using it was the instrument availability. The project we worked on as a class this week had a voice part but voice was not an option. After thinking for a while I ended up using flute instead. I modified the score by changing the word flute to
voice but when played back it still sounds like a flute. Generally, I found Noteflight to
be a great tool and I am looking forward to use it for composition and film scoring in music production and general music classes.
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