Recently I took a Technology in Music Education class as part of my Masters program. I had used MuseScore and Noteflight, but only in small bits. My musical colleague Kayla Schmitz has been using it with her students and suggested that I really start using it more. I did this for my high schoolers! It has been great. The site is below. I inputted "April is in my Mistress' Face" by Thomas Morley. Now, like many others, I have piano skills, but it's nice to get out from behind the piano and direct. Noteflight allows students the opportunity to view my piece (that I have semi-transcribe into Noteflight), they can also select specific parts to isolate to aid in part singing. I have found that students can lead their own sectionals - without having to be a piano player!! Woot!!
The free subscription to Noteflight only allows 10 scores, so Kayla suggested that I export to Music XML which allows this to be opened in either Finale, Sibelius, or MuseScore. MuseScore is a free music notation system download. One can also download to a MIDI file so the student could basically have a mp3 version of the piece, and so can the director so they can continue to direct. This allows the teacher to delete the score from Noteflight and opens up a spot for another selection.
Noteflight: http://www.noteflight.com
MuseScore: http://www.musescore.org
The free subscription to Noteflight only allows 10 scores, so Kayla suggested that I export to Music XML which allows this to be opened in either Finale, Sibelius, or MuseScore. MuseScore is a free music notation system download. One can also download to a MIDI file so the student could basically have a mp3 version of the piece, and so can the director so they can continue to direct. This allows the teacher to delete the score from Noteflight and opens up a spot for another selection.
Noteflight: http://www.noteflight.com
MuseScore: http://www.musescore.org
