Maestro Music Software MagicScore Notation for MS Word 8 combines all the power and features of the MagicScore Notation software with the convenience of being able to dynamically place music notation into any MS Word document with a single mouse click.
MagicScore Notation for MS Word 8 works within Word, allowing you to add anything from a single note to an entire page of music inside any Word document, thereby opening up a wide range of possibilities for creating educational sheets, tutorials, articles, and more. The software is intended for use with Windows computers, and is compatible with MS Word XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016.
How Does MagicScore Notation for MS Word Work?
- To add a piece of music notation to an MS Word document, just place a MagicScore Notation object into the document using a toolbar button or the Insert->Object menu inside Word—no need for copying and pasting image files.
- Once the music has been added, simply click on the part that needs to be changed, edit that music in the editor window, then close the editor, and your changes are instantly placed back into the Word document.
- Once embedded in the document, the music is visible by anyone, even if they do not own the MagicScore Notation software. Anyone with access to Microsoft Word is able to open, view, and print your documents and music on any computer.
Fast and Easy Way to Create Annotated Musical Documents
- Combine MS Word tables, charts, formulas, text, and more with music notation to create custom documents.
- Create custom scale sheets and exercises for each instrument in an ensemble with just one document.
- Create instructions and comments in Word, then add scales, arpeggios, and other music.
- Print a worksheet, then quickly transpose the music to other key signatures and clefs for any other instruments you might be using.
- Quickly create quizzes and composition assignments simply by dragging and dropping blocks of music around the page.
- Easily make flash cards to teach almost any music-theory skill.
- Add extensive notations in your music to point out how to play any special fingerings or extended techniques.
- Make comments suggesting improvements to a piece of music, allowing the user to fix errors or clean up sections of the music before it goes to print.
Easy and Versatile Note-Entry Options
- Use the Quick Input feature to speed through writing your entire composition, or use a mouse along with a variety of other note-entry methods such as step-time and real-time note entry using a MIDI keyboard.
- Pianists and guitarists may also benefit from using specialized note entry options such as the on-screen piano keyboard or virtual fretboard.
- Quickly drag and drop articulations, dynamics, or tempo markings, anywhere in the score. Easily attach those markings to any note or measure with a single action of the mouse or keyboard.
- Listen to your music over your speakers or headphones, complete with dynamics and articulations.
Easy-to-Use Arranging Tools
- Write music in clean, crisp notation, using flexible templates, multiple articulations, and dynamics while having access to an unlimited number of staves and measures in each score.
- Customize any of our predefined ensemble templates, or choose from dozens of instruments and staff configurations.
- Score markings like guitar fingering diagrams and tablature are added to any note or chord with a simple click of the mouse.
Multiple Output Options
- Place music notation directly into MS Word documents, and save it in DOC format for enhanced compatibility and ease of use.
- Print your documents complete with all annotations and instructions directly from within Word.
- Save completed scores in MagicScore Notations native SFD music notation format or as MusicXML, Karaoke, or PDF files.
- Export your music as an image file (TIFF, BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, WMF).
- Publish your music online using MagicScore Notation along with the free MagicScore Online utility. Viewers can then transpose it into other keys, print it, or play it back over their computer’s speakers.
- Use exported MIDI files with many popular sequencing and sampling programs.
- Quickly create different layouts for each instrument in the ensemble using the handy Part Extraction tools.
User-Friendly Help System
- The contextual Help System guides you through the process of creating your compositions.
- Online video tutorials and training videos are included.
- Help System can be customized to any of nine different languages.
- Free web-based support forums.
- Free E-mail support.
- Printed manuals.