ABSTRACT
Over the past few decades, the field of transcribing musical scores and arrangements has been strongly affected by both the computer and MIDI technology. A music notation program lets us enter musical data into an on-screen score in a number of manual and automated ways. In addition to dedicated music printing programs, most DAW or sequencer packages will often include a basic music notation application that allows the sequenced data within a track or defined region to be displayed and edited directly within the program. One of the major drawbacks to entering a score into such a program is the fact that music notation is an interpretive art. In addition to the growing number of options for storing and displaying sheet music in the digital domain, several online services have begun to show up that offer printed music downloads, using a model that’s not unlike iTunes and other music download services.
