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Music Publisher 6 is a professional quality music notation software system for all 32-bit Windows platforms. Focused entirely on the printed page it is above all a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get visual system. The philosophy of Music Publisher 6 is that it is simply a replacement for pencil and paper. If you want a particular effect on your score which "breaks" the rules of music then Music Publisher 6 will not argue! Above all it produces the notation you want to see and does not impose its own rules. But of course, if you request it then it will help with advice and operations such as Neatening and various Tidying tools.  
 
But if you regard yourself as more of a musician than a computer person, then don't be afraid that Music Publisher 6 is going to be hard going because there is a great amount of assistance within the program. And in any case once registered you are entitled to unlimited support both with the program itself and of course with getting it installed and running. You can get help by email, phone or mail.  
 
Music Publisher 6 Standard Edition is the music notation software that allows you to write music, print it, edit, play and transpose it and produce midi files. But there are many other operations from extracting parts from master scores to producing musical insertions for your Word Processor or Desk Top Publishing program.  
 
Music creation or writing your score  
 
Entry of notes is directly from the computer keyboard. Notes are placed by their name (eg key A for note A) and the attributes added as you type - e.g. press the full stop (period) key for a dotted note. In addition the musical systems (the staves linked together) can be created exactly as you want to see them, and this construction can be varied from system to system within your score. The features include:  
 
- Treble, Bass, Alto and Tenor clefs (in 2 sizes each).  
- Entry of notes is very fast. Includes grace notes, beaming, staccato, marcato marks, dotting, tuplets, tying, slurring, note length, cross-headed notes, acciaccatura (etc), rests and more.  
- Many supplied Templates and the facility to add your own without limit.  
- Variable stave size - from about 0.15" to 2" (4mm to 50mm), giving up to about 30 staves per A4 or Letter sized page using a small stave size. The only limit is how many you can squeeze on the page!  
- Full range of system construction options - no limit to the staves per system.  
- Completely flexible and variable stave spacing for different types of musical layout.  
- Full set of barline styles.  
- Various note head shapes.  
- Cue-sized (small) staves available.  
- Single-line staves (for percussion etc).  
- The only limit is 10,000 staves in the whole work.  
 
Tools:  
 
There is a range of tools to add and edit other objects. These include  
 
- Symbol tool for adding (by "drag and drop") any of over 180 occasional symbols such as fermata, trills, turns, mordents, figured bass, and many others.  
- Curve tool for phrase marks.  
- Hairpin tool for dynamic marks.  
- Straight line drawing tool (e.g. first and second-time bars - although there is an operation to have this done for you in one operation).  
- Tempo Tool to add tempo marks either as absolute (eg note=120) or as relative (eg note = dotted note)  
- Automatic alignment and neatening of your score.  
- Page Numbering tool with flexibility in position and style.  
- Block tool for copying and moving.  
- Very fast editing of the objects on the stave. Mostly "put the mouse over, press a key".  
- Saving of parts of a score, merging of scores.  
- Very fast creation of music "pictures" for inclusion in a word-processed document.  
 
Text:  
 
On-page text plays a large part in any musical work and Music Publisher 6 allows you to place any text at any position in any font. However, certain text has special requirements and conveniences: There are three tools for text:  
 
- Lyrics Tool for faster entry and automatic alignment of words under notes.  
- Chord Name Tool for easy entry and alignment which will produce text which will transpose if you transpose the music.  
- General Text Tool: Titles and miscellaneous text (eg instructions) can be placed anywhere in any font.  
- Headers and footers facility with features such as printed date, unusual page numbering, file name of score on your computer.  
 
Transposition:  
 
Transposing your music is simplicity itself in Music Publisher 6:  
 
- Change part of or all of the score by the number of semitones (half-steps) up or down. You can for instance change all the staves for Clarinet.  
- With optional change of clef. Great for changing say the Viola parts to Clarinet when re-arranging a string quartet for wind quartet.  
- Textual chord names also transposed automatically.  
 
Sound:  
 
The program can play back your work at any stage of construction. You can select from just one stave right up to the whole work, and with or without observing repeats.  
 
- A choice from 129 voices - the "General Midi" set plus "silent" for the Karaoke enthusiast...  
- With up to 2 different voices per stave.  
- Tempo and dynamic changes observed.  
 
Great Highland Bagpipes:  
 
Music Publisher 6 has quite a following among pipers and extra specific options have been included to make their life easier and ours a little noisier:  
 
- Stems: automatic melody created in stem down with all doublings with 3 flags or beams.  
- The note range of the instrument is restricted and this is echoed in the software so that (e.g.) there is no ambiguity about which B,C,D,E or F is meant.  
- Key: as is customary, automatic playback in 2 sharps even if no key signature is placed.  
 
Help:  
 
Support with this program is particularly extensive.  
 
- Built-in tutorial to get you started.  
- Choice of 4 user competence levels to give you more help at the stages you need it with optional retirement of warning prompts which get annoying.  
- Tip-of-the-day feature which you can disable when you get sick of it.  
- Over 300-page help file organized as answers to "How do I..." questions.  
- "What's this for?" facility on all buttons and controls.

For the best in price, service and support, contact:
Kelly's Music & Computers
Phone: 1-888-562-8822
E-mail: sales@kellysmusic.ca
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