
Mark Adler is the music editing and engraving supervisor at MakeMusic.
A seasoned professional trumpet player, Mark received a BM in trumpet performance at the Manhattan School of Music, and taught trumpet privately for 25 years.

Mark Adler is the music editing and engraving supervisor at MakeMusic.
A seasoned professional trumpet player, Mark received a BM in trumpet performance at the Manhattan School of Music, and taught trumpet privately for 25 years.

Jonathan Feist is a writer, editor, and composer who works by day as the managing editor of Berklee Press and as a Finale instructor at the Berklee College of Music’s online school, Berkleemusic.com.
Finale 2011 included three new music fonts. While previous blogs have briefly touched upon the Finale AlphaNotes and Finale Percussion fonts, this week I’d like to focus on the Finale Mallets font.
Like any written language, music notation continually evolves. In October 1974 more than eighty musicians, representing seventeen countries, met in Ghent, Belgium to discuss this evolution.

Are you a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences? I’m guessing most of you are not, and neither am I.