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Music Notation for the Beginner and the Professional!

Writing Sheet Music for the Soloist or the Orchestra in Pizzicato!

A word processor helps you write letters and print them; Pizzicato helps you write sheet music and print it

Piano, Organ, Percussion, Guitar and Bass Guitar, Tuba, Banjo, Flute, etc. Pizzicato can help you with any Music Notation!!!!

• Music starts in many forms like:
• handwritten scores,
• ideas in your head,
• sacred hymns,
• music class lessons and even other songs.

Quickly and Easily you will notate your songs and then print them out on paper looking professional and ready for you or the musicians.

You can do this in the comfort of your home and without much experience with computers. As you're reading these pages, you probably already have a basic understanding of computers: either Mac or PC.

You can probably use the mouse quite well.

You, also, probably have a good printer and know how to print things.

Pizzicato can help you to put all these skills and tools (you already have) together and help you compose, arrange and print your music.

Pizzicato even has a basic course on using the computer in it's manual!

 

"Indeed, I use this program more and more and I find that it is terribly well done! It should be said that since its purchase, I have enjoyed this software very much, for its easy use as well as for its advanced functions. Well done for the follow-up and the evolution of this excellent software." Johann S.

 

Your Music Notes

To start with, on the Pizzicato screen, you will see an empty music staff. It looks like this:

To add notes and rhythms, Pizzicato has tool palettes for virtually every feature you need for music notation. Here is a small example of these palettes:

Now for adding note to the empty measure, click on the note you want and then click on the measure where you want that note placed. Pizzicato draws a note.

As you add notes and rests, Pizzicato automatically adjusts the positions for you and with just a few mouse clicks you end up with a complete measure:

 

What if you do not know about music notes or measures?

Here is where the experienced musician asks "what about the music clef, the key signature, the time signature, and other musical symbols?"

Here is where Pizzicato excels!

Pizzicato provides palettes for the clef, the key signature, the time signature and virtually every other musical symbol you'll need. Thus, with just a few clicks, you get:

Additionally, if the time signature changes later in the music, you just add a new signature right where you want it. Any where in the score you can change. Choose the symbol from a palette and click ion the measure (or staff) where you want it.

 

You write the music and Pizzicato draws the notes and symbols!

 

"I thank you for the assistance you bring to musicians and other music lovers by the way of a complete and instructive program." Françoise B.

 

That covers the basic stuff you say, but what about the more difficult things in music?

 

Customize Your Measure

Do you want a wider measure, or do you want to narrow it?

Do you wish to change the stems of some notes?

Maybe make them longer or reverse them?

Would you like to slightly move two voices in order to make the music more readable?Do you want to group or separate the note beams in an unusual way?

Do you need to shrink or change a note head?

Pizzicato can easily do all these things and more!

With just a few mouse clicks: The result is a re-structured measure, easy to look at and read. No headaches, no never ending menus, just simple clicks from palette to measure.Here is an illustration:

Now what you need is symbols for giving instructions to the musicians.